ML110040099
| ML110040099 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 01/03/2011 |
| From: | Office of Public Affairs Region IV |
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| References | |
| Press Release-IV-11-002 | |
| Download: ML110040099 (1) | |
See also: see also:Press Release-IV-11-002
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No. IV-11-002
Contact: Victor Dricks: (817) 860-8128
Lara Uselding: (817) 276-6519
January 3, 2011
E-Mail: OPA4.Resource@nrc.gov
NRC TO HOLD REGULATORY CONFERENCE
WITH COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a regulatory conference with
Luminant Generation Co. officials on Jan. 13, to discuss the significance of an inspection finding
at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant. The plant is located near Glen Rose, Texas.
Conferees will discuss the significance, cause and corrective actions associated with the
apparent failure by the company to incorporate into station procedures information necessary to
ensure continued operability of a water tank that supplies safety-related equipment. Specifically,
an NRC inspection revealed, the company failed to take steps necessary to ensure that a rubber-
like bladder inside the tank was properly maintained.
The meeting, which will be open to public observation, will begin at 1 p.m. in the NRCs
Region IV offices in Arlington, Texas. The public will have an opportunity to observe and ask
questions of NRC staff after the business portion of the meeting. Members of the public can
listen to the meeting via a special telephone line by calling 1-800-952-9677 and asking to be
connected to the meeting.
The NRC evaluates regulatory performance at commercial nuclear power plants with a
color coded process which classifies regulatory findings as either green, white, yellow or red, in
increasing order of increasing safety significance. The NRC staff has preliminary determined
that the significance of the violation is white, meaning it has a low to moderate safety
significance.
No decision on the final significance, the apparent violations or any contemplated
enforcement action will be made during the conference. Those decisions will be made by NRC
officials at a later date.
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http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/listserver.html. The NRC homepage at www.nrc.gov also offers a SUBSCRIBE
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