Press Release-05-067, NRC Approves Extended Power Uprate for Waterford Nuclear Power Plant

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Press Release-05-067: NRC Approves Extended Power Uprate for Waterford Nuclear Power Plant
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Issue date: 04/15/2005
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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@nrc.gov Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA No.05-067 April 15, 2005 NRC APPROVES EXTENDED POWER UPRATE FOR WATERFORD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a request by Entergy Nuclear South to increase the generating capacity of the Waterford nuclear power plant by approximately 8 percent. The NRC staffs review determined that Entergy can safely increase the reactors power output after upgrading several plant components and complying with a license condition. Entergy must submit an amendment for NRC review and approval to account for instrument uncertainty.

NRC staff also reviewed Entergys evaluations that showed the plants design can handle the increased power level. The NRC's safety evaluation focused on several areas, including nuclear steam supply systems, instrumentation and control systems, electrical systems, accident evaluations, radiological consequences, operations, and other technical specification changes.

Extended power uprates involve significant modifications to plant equipment such as the high pressure turbines, main generators, and/or transformers. The power uprate at the plant, located 20 miles west of New Orleans, La., will increase the plants generating capacity from approximately 1075 to 1143 megawatts electric. The licensee intends to implement the uprate following its spring refueling outage.

NRC previously published a notice about the power uprate application in the Federal Register, providing the public an opportunity to comment or request a hearing. No comments or hearing requests were received by the NRC. The agencys evaluation of the Waterford uprate will be available through the NRCs ADAMS electronic document database by entering ML051030082 on this Web page:

http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm .

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