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          NRC Library  Document Collections  News Releases  1999NRC to Hold Public Meeting to Describe New NRC Inspection Program for Fort Calhoun

NRC Seal ***NRC NEWS*** **U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION** **OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGION IV** **611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400, Arlington TX 76011**RIV: 99-24 June 11, 1999 CONTACT: Breck Henderson (817) 860-8128/e-mail: bwh@nrc.gov **NRC TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING TO DESCRIBE NEW NRC INSPECTION PROGRAM FOR FORT CALHOUN** The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet with the public June 17 to describe a new pilot inspection and assessment program being conducted at Fort Calhoun Station, a nuclear power plant in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at Dana College in Doctor's Hall Auditorium (DHA), Hall of Science, in Blair, Nebraska. The meeting will include a description of the new program and an opportunity for questions and comments from the public. Fort Calhoun is one of nine plants participating in the pilot program, which began June 1, to test and adjust the new inspection and assessment process. Following the six-month trial, the program is expected to be extended to all 103 commercial nuclear power reactors next year. The NRC has developed the new reactor inspection and assessment program to use its resources more effectively and efficiently. Changes in the inspection and assessment effort are necessary to keep pace with improvements in nuclear power plant safety over the past 20 years.. Plants that perform well will have less regulatory oversight than plants that have problems. A "baseline" inspection program will continue for all nuclear plants with NRC resident inspectors on site supplemented by specialists from one of four NRC regional offices. If performance declines at a plant, the NRC will step up its regulatory activities for that plant. The new assessment program will focus in part on performance indicators. These indicators are objective, statistically-based parameters that indicate how safely plants are performing. In addition, NRC inspectors will monitor a number of plant activities that are not measured by the indicators. The inspections will pay particular attention to how well the plant staff finds and fixes problems that affect safety. The pilot inspection and assessment program began June 1 at nine power plant sites -- Hope Creek and Salem in New Jersey, FitzPatrick in New York, Prairie Island in Minnesota, Quad Cities in Illinois, Shearon Harris in North Carolina, Sequoyah in Tennessee, and Fort Calhoun and Cooper in Nebraska. A more complete description of the new inspection and oversight program is available on the NRC's internet web site. Questions may also be addressed to opa@nrc.gov. 
      
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