ML12151A392

12 Intent to Participate in the Palisades Nuclear Plant Emergency Preparedness Exercise, October 2012

ML12151A392
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	05/30/2012
From:	Billy Dickson Division of Reactor Safety III
To:	Vitale A Entergy Nuclear Operations
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE ROAD, SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 May 30, 2012 Mr. Anthony Vitale Vice-President, Operations Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Palisades Nuclear Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, MI 49043-9530

SUBJECT:

NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE

Dear Mr. Vitale:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) routinely participates in licensees emergency preparedness exercises to ensure that the NRCs Incident Response capabilities are effectively maintained and to provide licensees an opportunity to exercise the interface with the NRC during response to an incident at their sites. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our intent to participate in the Palisades Nuclear Plant Emergency Preparedness Exercise that is scheduled to occur October 30-31, 2012. Currently, the extent of participation will only involve regional response staff.

During the exercise, the NRCs response will involve activating our Region III Incident Response Center and sending an NRC Site Team, including our resident inspectors, to your facilities. If our scope of participation changes, we will contact your emergency preparedness staff to discuss the changes. We will also be coordinating with your staff to schedule a pre-exercise outreach presentation given by our emergency response coordinator and provide your staff with training materials to aid your staff in exercising with the NRC. The NRC outreach conducted by my staff and the training materials being provided are tools to further reinforce concepts related to NRC incident response activities.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room)

A. Vitale If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Pedro J.

Cardona-Morales, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at (630) 829-9738, or myself at (630) 829-9827.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Billy C. Dickson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-255 License No. DPR-20 cc: Distribution via ListServ'

A. Vitale If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Pedro J.

Cardona-Morales, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at (630) 829-9738, or myself at (630) 829-9827.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Billy C. Dickson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-255 License No. DPR-20 cc: Distribution via ListServ' DISTRIBUTION:

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