Press Release-II-06-034, NRC Staff to Meet with TVA Officials in Alabama to Discuss Unit 1 Restart at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant

Press Release-II-06-034: NRC Staff to Meet with TVA Officials in Alabama to Discuss Unit 1 Restart at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant

ML062080716
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Site:	Browns Ferry
Issue date:	07/27/2006
From:	Office of Public Affairs Region II
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Press Release-II-06-034
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NRC NEWS UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGION II 61 Forsyth Street SW, Atlanta GA 30303 Web Site: www.nrc.gov No. II-06-034 July 27, 2006 CONTACT: Ken Clark (404)562-4416 E-mail: OPA2@nrc.gov Roger Hannah (404)562-4417 NRC STAFF TO MEET WITH TVA OFFICIALS IN ALABAMA TO DISCUSS UNIT 1 RESTART AT BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials will meet with Tennessee Valley Authority officials from 6:00 until 8:30 p.m. (CDT) on Thursday, August 3 at Calhoun Community College near Decatur, Ala., to discuss the status of TVAs restart efforts for the Unit 1 reactor at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant.

The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held at the College, located at 6230 U.S.

Highway 31 North in the Tanner community. NRC officials will be available after the business portion of the meeting to answer questions from interested observers.

The agenda for the meeting is to discuss the status of the Unit 1 recovery efforts, including completed work activities, schedules for future milestones, response to challenges, closure of restart items and other activities important to NRC oversight and inspection of Unit 1.

All three units of the Browns Ferry plant were shut down in 1985 but retained NRC operating licenses. Unit 2 was restarted in 1991 and Unit 3 was restarted in 1995. TVA has been doing extensive work on Unit 1 and said it expects to have that unit ready to begin operating again on or before early 2007.