NRC report card to be issued next week

The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided that Duke Energy’s nuclear units 1, 2, and 3 in Oconee County operated safely in 2014. Information about that assessment will be shared next week during an informal open house at the World of Energy. Beginning at 5:30 Tuesday evening, April 14, there will be informational posters and NRC staff available to answer questions about the safety performance of the three units, as well as overall NRC oversight and inspection. In 2014, there was a violation of low to moderate safety significance related to Duke’s failure to identify and correct a crack in a weld on a key safety system in Unit 1 that required additional oversight. Corrective actions were taken by Duke, and all three units have since been returned to normal oversight.