Press Release-II-22-015, NRC Schedules Public Meeting to Discuss V.C. Summer Nuclear Power Plant Performance

Press Release-II-22-015: NRC Schedules Public Meeting to Discuss V.C. Summer Nuclear Power Plant Performance

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Issue date:	04/28/2022
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No: II22-015 April 28, 2022

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Dave Gasperson, 404-997-4417 NRC Schedules Public Meeting to Discuss V.C. Summer Nuclear Power Plant Performance Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will discuss the 2021 safety performance of the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant during a public meeting scheduled for May 5. The plant, operated by Dominion Energy, is located near Jenkinsville, South Carolina.

The event will run from 6-7:30 p.m., Eastern time, at the McCrorey-Liston School of Technology, 1978 State Hwy 215 South in Blair, South Carolina. NRC employees responsible for plant inspections, including the resident inspectors based full-time at the site, will be available to answer questions at the meeting.

The meeting is also accessible via Microsoft Teams and by telephone by calling 301-576-2978, passcode 331005138#. Telephone participants will need to press *6 to unmute their phones to ask the NRC staff questions during that part of the meeting.

The NRC concluded that V.C. Summer operated safely during 2021 and all inspection findings and performance indicators had very low safety significance. As a result, the plant remains under the NRCs normal level of oversight, which entails thousands of hours of inspection each year.

The NRC Reactor Oversight Process uses color-coded inspection findings and indicators to measure plant performance. The colors start at green and increase to white, yellow or red, commensurate with the safety significance of the issues involved. Inspection findings or performance indicators with more than very low safety significance trigger increased NRC oversight.

NRC resident inspectors and other specialist inspectors from the NRC Region II office in Atlanta perform inspections at the V.C. Summer plant.

The annual assessment letters and the meeting notice are available on the NRC website.

Current performance information for the sites is available and updated quarterly.