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No. II-97-12

January 21, 1997

Roger Hannah (404) 331-7878

The Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, will visit Florida Power & Light Company's Turkey Point nuclear power plant near Homestead on Friday, January 24 and will be available to meet with interested media representatives at 1:00 p.m. (est) in the plant administration building.

She will meet with the NRC's resident inspectors and hold discussions with FP&L officials concerning operations at the company's nuclear facilities, along with a working tour of Turkey Point.

Dr. Jackson is a theoretical physicist who became an NRC commissioner on May 2, 1995 and was named Chairman two months later on July 1. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1968 and a Ph.D. in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics in 1973, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She conducted research in theoretical physics, solid state and quantum physics, and optical physics for a number of years at AT&T Bell Laboratories and was a Professor of Physics at Rutgers University when appointed to the NRC.

She is the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate from MIT, the first African-American to become an NRC commissioner and the first woman and the first African-American to serve as NRC Chairman.