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NRC NEWS
U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGION II
101 Marietta St., Suite 2900, Atlanta, GA 30323 | | CONTACT: |
Ken Clark (Phone: 404-331-5503, E-mail: kmc2@nrc.gov ) |
| Roger Hannah (Phone 404-331-7878, E-mail: rdh1@nrc.gov ) |
No.: II-96-77 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Ken Clark 404-331-5503 (Friday, September 13, 1996)
Roger Hannah 404-331-7878
NRC SCHEDULES SPECIAL INSPECTION EXIT MEETING AT ST. LUCIE PLANT
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has scheduled a public exit
meeting at Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear power plant to
discuss the results of an NRC maintenance rule inspection at the plant.
That meeting will be Friday, September 20 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 123 of the
plant's Training Building.
The maintenance rule inspection will begin Monday, September 16 and
will conclude with the exit meeting on Friday, September 20. The
inspection will be led by NRC Region II Inspector Bill Holland and will
include four other regional inspectors with additional staff support from
NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.
The maintenance rule, which all plants were required to implement
by July 10, 1996, requires plants to monitor the performance or condition
of plant structures, systems or components against established goals to
provide assurance they are capable of performing their intended function,
or to perform preventive maintenance to keep them capable of performing
their function.
The maintenance rule includes not only safety-related structures,
systems or components but nonsafety-related parts of the plant that may
be needed in an accident or emergency situation, or whose failure may
affect safety equipment, or whose failure may cause the plant to
automatically shut down or to activate a safety-related system.
The inspection team is looking at whether FPL has established the
appropriate goals and risks related to maintenance, and whether the plant
staff has the appropriate balance between reliability and availability of
equipment and systems.
The first maintenance rule inspection was performed in July at the
Palo Verde plant in Arizona, and the NRC will conduct a similar
inspection at every commercial nuclear power plant in the country. The
maintenance rule inspection at St. Lucie is the first in the southeast
(NRC Region II).
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