The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continuing to monitor impacts from Hurricane Sandy on nuclear power plants in the Northeastern United States. As of 3 p.m. EDT. Monday, no plants have had to shut down as a result of the storm although some plants, including Oyster Creek and Salem Unit 2, were already out of [...]
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation (NYSE: SCG), and Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, have received approval for combined construction and operating licenses (COLs) from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for two new nuclear units at V. C. Summer Station in Jenkinsville, S.C. “Receiving approval [...]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III office in Lisle, Illinois, has activated its incident response center and entered monitoring mode due to an Unusual Event declared at the Byron nuclear power plant Unit 2. The event was declared due to a loss of offsite power at 10:18 a.m. CT. The two-unit plant is operated by [...]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a $140,000 civil penalty against Entergy Operations, Inc. at the River Bend Station, for control room operators accessing the internet without authorization and failure by the utility to take timely corrective actions once the issue was identified. River Bend is located 24 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. Control room operators are [...]
NRC SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON ASSUMPTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF EXTENDED STORAGE OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL The Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeks public comment on a report updating preliminary assumptions for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) the agency will develop to analyze the effects of storing spent nuclear fuel from the nation’s commercial power reactors for [...]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet with industry representatives Thursday, Dec. 1, to discuss the NRC’s Japan Near-Term Task Force recommendations, which were subsequently categorized as “Tier 1,†those to be implemented without unnecessary delay. The Task Force examined issues raised by the Fukushima nuclear accident in March. The meeting will be held from 9 [...]
Prepared Remarks for Commissioner William C. Ostendorff United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission American Nuclear Society Winter Conference Panel: Recognizing Existing Functional Links to National Security Policy That Could Properly Accelerate Development of Small Modular Reactors Introduction Good morning. Let me commend the American Nuclear Society for hosting this first annual embedded small modular reactor (SMR) [...]
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has directed its staff to publish a final rule amending the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) design certification to address the effects of the impact of a large commercial aircraft, in accordance with the NRC’s 2009 aircraft impact assessment rule. STP Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC) submitted an application to amend [...]
NRC EXTENDS CONSTRUCTION PERMIT FOR BELLEFONTE UNIT 1 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the construction permit for Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) unfinished Unit 1 reactor at the Bellefonte site near Scottsboro, Ala. TVA submitted a permit extension request Oct. 8, 2010, and supplemented the request on April 25 and Sept. 1. The permit, which [...]
NRC TO HOLD REGULATORY CONFERENCE WITH ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a regulatory conference with representatives of Entergy Operations, Inc., on Oct. 3 to discuss a preliminary finding involving the failure to use effective engineering controls to protect workers at the Waterford 3 nuclear plant from unnecessary radiation exposure. The plant [...]
 NRC ISSUES SECOND OF THREE TECHNICAL EVALUATION REPORTS ON DOE’S YUCCA MOUNTAIN LICENSE APPLICATION The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published the second of three technical evaluation reports (TERs) detailing the agency staff’s review of the Department of Energy’s license application for a high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Publication of the report [...]
COMMISSION APPROVES EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS REGULATIONS FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, OTHER FACILITIES The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today affirmed their votes to approve changes to the emergency preparedness regulations that would enhance emergency preparedness requirements for existing nuclear power plants, for those that might be licensed and built in the future, and for research and test reactors. [...]
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission headquarters in Rockville, Md., is monitoring an Alert at the North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia, following today’s earthquake in central Virginia. The NRC is also monitoring Unusual Events, the lowest emergency classification, declared at several other Eastern U.S. nuclear power plants. In accordance with agency procedures, the NRC’s [...]
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