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NRC NEWS
U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200
Washington, D.C. 20555-0001
E-mail: opa.resource@nrc.gov
Site: http://www.nrc.gov
No.11-001 January 3, 2011
NRC APPROVES USE OF ADVANCED FIRE PROTECTION STANDARD
AT OCONEE NUCLEAR PLANT IN SOUTH CAROLINA
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the Oconee Nuclear Stations
adoption of the National Fire Protection Associations Performance-Based Standard
for Fire Protection for Light-Water Reactor Electric Generating Plants" (NFPA 805).
This is an important milestone in the continuing effort to strengthen fire protection
regulations at U.S. nuclear power plants, said Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko. After making
safety improvements, Oconee becomes the second applicant to receive NRC approval to
transition to the new fire protection standard. Approval of Oconees application also starts a six-
month clock for the other reactors to submit their fire protection license amendment requests to
the NRC.
NFPA 805 describes how existing U.S. reactors can provide acceptable fire protection
programs by applying risk-informed, performance-based requirements and fundamental fire
protection design elements. Under the NFPA 805 standard, reactor owners and operators perform
engineering analyses to demonstrate their installed fire protection systems and features will meet
specific fire protection and nuclear safety goals, objectives, and performance criteria. These
comprehensive evaluations of fire safety measures allow U.S. reactors to focus their resources in
the most appropriate manner.
Plant owners must also install additional equipment or take other measures if the analyses
call for them. In the case of Oconee, the NFPA 805 analysis led the plant to make several
modifications, including installation of additional fire detection systems and upgraded fire
barriers. The NRCs safety evaluation for Oconees transition concludes the plant has
documented and demonstrated its fire safety enhancements.
The NFPA issued the standard in 2001, and the NRC provided extensive opportunity for
the public and the fire safety community to participate in the agencys examination of the
standard. The NRC incorporated the standard in 2004 as a voluntary alternative to existing fire
protection regulations. Oconee, located 30 miles west of Greenville, S.C., and the Shearon Harris
plant, located 20 miles southwest of Raleigh, N.C., volunteered in 2005 to lead the industrys
pilot implementation program. Oconee submitted its formal application to switch to NFPA 805
in May 2008 and revised the application in April 2010.
An additional 46 reactors at 29 sites, representing 17 utilities, have told the NRC they
plan to adopt the NFPA 805 approach. The NRC expects other U.S. nuclear power plants will
consider adopting this approach once the industry gains experience in implementing the
standard. For those plants choosing not to transition to NFPA 805, the Commission has
determined that licensees must have identified all fire-induced circuit failure violations and
noncompliances, as well as implement compensatory measures. These licensees were granted a
total of 36 months of enforcement discretion to end November 2012.
More information on the NFPA 805 approach and fire protection at U.S. nuclear power
plants is available on the NRC website here: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-
experience/fire-protection.html.
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