Five Audit Reports on the Contingency Plans for nuclear plants are online.

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Links to the Audit Reports on the Contingency Planning efforts of five nuclear plants can be found at:

http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/Y2K

The five plants audited thus far include Palo Verde, Indian Point, Turkey Point, Oconee, and Diable Canyon. These audits will tell you the critical areas for which contingency plans are to be made, whether the plants were aware of the AR relay problems with emergency generators experienced by Seabrook or not, projected staffing, the assumed duration of loss of offsite power and the plans to deal with that possibility, personnel training plans, internal and external risks and other info.

The only audit in which a plant appeared to be less than on top of things (in my opinion) was the Con Ed (Consolidated Edison Company of New York) Indian Point one. Under the heading, "3.6 Use of AR Relays in the Emergency Power System" they were the only facility which:

"At the time of the audit, Con Ed was not able to provide information on the type of relays used."

Also, under the heading "3.8 NRC Communications Contingency Plan for the Year 2000 Rollover" they were again the only ones for which:

"When this topic was discussed with Con Ed, Con Ed indicated that it was not familiar with the NRC communications contingency plan. The staff stated that this information was on the NRC web site. Con Ed indicated that it plans to obtain this information from the website."

The audits were conducted from about a month and half to two weeks before the NRC July 1 completion deadline. All of the plants audited were considered able to have acceptable contingency planning activities in the final summaries.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 1999

Answers

it appears that the giant has not been sleeping only working under the surface. encouraging indeed is the fact that they feds are out of the blocks with some form of system testing and contingency planning.

thanks bonnie as usual you provide insightfull info for all of us that are trying to make some sense of this and plan accordingly.

al

-- Anonymous, July 21, 1999


Bonnie,

Yes, thanks from me too. 5+ months may not be enough time to finish a lot of non-critical remediation, but it's enough time to get fully ready for manual operation. I hope the Feds are pushing a lot of these plants to think about that situation. I'm sure many plants are doing a good job, but obviously there are some, like Con Ed, that are not.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 1999


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