Press Release-I-05-032, NRC to Send Team to Review Seabrook Security
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 06/06/2005 |
| From: | Office of Public Affairs Region I |
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs, Region I 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Pa.
Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA No. I-05-032 June 6, 2005
Contact:
Diane Screnci, 610/337-5330 Email: opa1@nrc.gov Neil Sheehan, 610/337-5331 NRC TO SEND TEAM TO REVIEW SEABROOK SECURITY The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent a special inspection team to continue the review of security at Seabrook Station in Seabrook, N.H. The on-site portion of the inspection began today.
The plant is operated by FPL Energy.
Consisting of five inspectors, the NRC team is tasked with following up on NRC-identified findings from an inspection conducted in May. The multi-disciplinary team will look at the companys root cause analysis and evaluate the long-term corrective actions planned by the company. Prior to leaving the site after the May inspection, NRC inspectors reviewed the companys short-term corrective actions that included on-site compensatory measures and found them to be appropriate and in accordance with the companys security plan.
NRC Region I Administrator Samuel J. Collins said, "Since conducting our inspection last month, NRC continued to assure that the company was addressing the inspection findings. This special inspection will provide us with an in-depth look at the companys efforts to correct any problems and prevent recurrence."
The NRC inspection team includes specialists from the Region I office in King of Prussia, Pa.,
and the NRCs headquarters in Rockville, Md. The team is expected to spend about one week on site before returning to the regional office, where information they gather will be analyzed and evaluated.
The NRC routinely conducts inspections of security at the nations nuclear power plants. The details of those inspections are not publicly available. The NRC has determined that certain security information should not be publicly available if it could reasonably be useful to an adversary.