Press Release-IV-15-006, NRC Begins Special Inspection at River Bend Station

Press Release-IV-15-006: NRC Begins Special Inspection at River Bend Station

ML15090A693
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Site:	River Bend
Issue date:	03/30/2015
From:	Office of Public Affairs Region IV
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Press Release-IV-15-006
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No: IV-15-006 March 30, 2015 CONTACT: Victor Dricks (817) 200-1128 Lara Uselding (817) 200-1519 NRC Begins Special Inspection at River Bend Station The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has begun a special inspection at the River Bend nuclear power plant to review circumstances surrounding the failure during testing of equipment needed to provide ventilation and cooling to plant areas with safety-related equipment. The plant, operated by Entergy Operations, Inc., is located in St. Francisville, La.

During periodic testing on March 9, equipment that provides ventilation and cooling to plant areas with safety-related equipment failed to start. A similar failure occurred during testing on Feb. 23.

The March 9 event raises some concern with how electrical equipment has been maintained at the plant, NRC Region IV Administrator Marc Dapas said. The purpose of this special inspection is to determine if there are any generic implications from equipment failures that occurred during the event.

Two NRC inspectors will spend about a week on site evaluating the licensees root cause analysis, maintenance of some plant systems and adequacy of corrective actions. An inspection report documenting the teams findings will be publicly available within 45 days of the end of the inspection.

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