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No. 98-129 July 29, 1998
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified five nuclear power plants that warrant a continuation of currently increased NRC regulatory attention.
The plants remained on the NRC Watch List as the result of a recent performance review by senior NRC managers and after concurrence by the Commission. They were discussed in a staff briefing of the Commission today.
The plants are:
Plants removed from the Watch List are:
Plants administratively removed from the Watch List following decisions to cease operations permanently are:
In addition, the NRC staff informed American Electric Power Co. of declining performance at D.C. Cook Units 1 and 2, located 11 miles south of Benton Harbor, Michigan, by issuing the licensee a trending letter. NRC also has informed Commonwealth Edison that it could not conclude that the adverse performance trend, first identified in a letter in January, had been arrested at Quad Cities Units 1 and 2 near Moline, Illinois. As directed by the Commission, NRC senior staff managers in the future will meet annually, rather than twice a year, to review the performance of nuclear power plants and major nuclear materials licensees and to recommend additions or deletions from the Watch List. The agency will continue to take any action needed to address safety or regulatory problems promptly as needed between these annual senior management meetings.
EDITORS: Texts of letters to utilities with plants on the Watch List or which have been removed from the list will be available on the NRC's Internet home page at: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA
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