No. I-08-012 

Contact: Diane Screnci, 610/337-5330 

 Neil Sheehan, 610/337-5331 

March 21, 2008

NRC TO DISCUSS SEABROOK NUCLEAR PLANT ANNUAL ASSESSMENT 

 AT PUBLIC MEETING SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 25 IN SEABROOK, N.H. 

The results of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual safety performance 

assessment for the Seabrook nuclear power plant, in Seabrook, N.H., will be discussed at a 

public meeting on Tuesday, March 25. 

Scheduled to begin at 4 p.m., the session will take place at Seabrook Town Hall, at 99 

Lafayette Road, Seabrook. Prior to the conclusion of the meeting, NRC staff will be available to 

answer questions from the public on the plant’s performance, as well as the agency’s oversight of 

the facility. 

FPL Energy Seabrook, LLC, operates the pressurized-water reactor, and representatives 

of the company will be on hand to discuss the assessment with NRC staff. 

“Through a combination of inspection findings and performance indicators, we are able 

to develop a comprehensive picture of how nuclear power plants are performing with regard to 

safety,” said NRC Region I Administrator Samuel J. Collins. “As part of our commitment to 

make the findings of our reviews accessible to the public, we hold meetings near each plant once 

a year to share the details of those assessments. We look forward to the opportunity on March 

25th to present that information for the Seabrook nuclear power plant.” 

The annual assessment letter for Seabrook is available on the NRC web site at: 

http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/OVERSIGHT/ASSESS/LETTERS/seab_2007q4.pdf . The notice for 

the meeting, with agenda attached, is available in the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS) under accession number ML080720018. ADAMS is 

accessible at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html . Help in using ADAMS is 

available via the NRC’s Public Document Room at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by email at PDR@NRC.GOV . 

Overall, the Seabrook plant operated safely during 2007. When considering nuclear 

power plant performance, the NRC uses color-coded performance indicators and inspection 

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findings. The colors start with “green” and then increase to “white,” “yellow” or “red,” 

commensurate with the safety significance of the issues involved. 

At the conclusion of last year, there were no performance indicators for Seabrook that 

were other than “green” and no inspection findings that were “greater than green.” Therefore, 

the plant will receive the baseline, or routine, level of inspections for the remainder of 2008. 

Routine inspections are carried out by the two NRC Resident Inspectors assigned to the 

plant and by inspection specialists from the agency’s Region I Office in King of Prussia, Pa. 

Among the areas of performance at Seabrook to be inspected this year by NRC specialists are 

activities associated with containment building sump modifications, fire protection, emergency 

preparedness and the pre-operational testing and operation of a dry cask storage facility for spent 

nuclear fuel at the plant. 

Current performance information for Seabrook is available on the NRC web site at: 

http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/OVERSIGHT/ASSESS/SEAB1/seab1_chart.html . 

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