ML20154B442
| ML20154B442 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 09/19/1998 |
| From: | Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Cudlin R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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Dear Mr. Cudlin:
4 I am responding to your letter of August 25,1998, in which you enclosed your article " Lost
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Generation - The Risk of Regulatory Shutdown Poses Significant Asset Management l
Challenges for Nuclear Plants." We share the concern that NRC actions be objective, scrutable, and predictable. Our goalis to create a risk-informed and performance-based regulatory oversight process that reliably ties regulatory response to observed conditions.
Towards this end, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been conducting a dialogue with the nuclear industry stakeholders. This dialogue has provided information and insights on a number of improvement initiatives that we are currently working on, such as development and implementation of a more risk-informed baseline inspection program, the development of a revised performance assessment process, and improvements to the enforcement program, to name a few.
I have given your thought-provoking article to the staff for their consideration while carrying out thes.e initiatives. Thank you for your article and your concern about mcr.agement challenges for nuclear power plants.
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Sincerely, p