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NRC NEWS U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGION II 61 Forsyth Street, Suite 23T85, Atlanta, GA 30303

NRC Commissioner to Visit Brunswick Nuclear Plant on February 25

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission member, Jeffrey S. Merrifield, will visit Carolina Power & Light Company's Brunswick nuclear power plant at Southport, North Carolina, on Friday, February 25, to tour the facility and discuss its operation with CP&L officials.

Commissioner Merrifield will be available to meet with interested news media representatives at 2:30 p.m. (EST) in the auditorium of the plant's Technical Training Center.

Commissioner Merrifield was sworn in as a member of the NRC on October 23, 1998. Prior to assuming that post, he served for several years as senior counsel and legislative assistant to two United States Senators and as a Washington, D. C. attorney, specializing in environmental and regulatory issues.

A native of Antrim, N.H., he majored in political science and history at Tufts University where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree, magna cum laude, in 1985. He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1992. He is a member of the bar of both New Hampshire and the District of Columbia.

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