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U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGION II

61 Forsyth Street, Suite 23T85, Atlanta, GA 30303

CONTACT: Ken Clark (Phone: 404-562-4416, E-mail: kmc2@nrc.gov )
Roger Hannah (Phone 404-562-4417, E-mail: rdh1@nrc.gov )

No: II-97-79

(Friday, November 14, 1997)

NRC CHAIRMAN TO VISIT ST. LUCIE NUCLEAR PLANT

Will Meet With Press On Monday, November 17 At 4:00 P.M.

The Chairman of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, will be at Florida Power & Light Company's St. Lucie nuclear power plant on Hutchinson Island near Ft. Pierce on Monday, November 17 and will be available at 4:00 p.m. to meet with interested news media representatives to answer questions related to the visit.

Media representatives should enter through Gate B and come to Room 123A at the Plant Training Building.

Dr. Jackson will meet at St. Lucie with the NRC's resident inspectors, hold discussions with FP&L officials on current improvement initiatives at the plant, and take a working tour of the facility , including areas where replacement of the Unit 1 steam generators is currently under way.

Chairman 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 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.

Dr. Jackson 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 first African-American to serve as NRC Chairman.

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