How did Oconee Nuclear rate in 2017?

The public is invited for a discussion on the safety performance of the Oconee Nuclear Station covering the year 2017. Staff from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will conduct an open house next week at Duke’s World of Energy. The event will run 6 to 7 pm Tuesday, March 20. NRC employees, including the resident inspectors based full-time at the plant, will be available to discuss the performance. NRC has concluded that the Oconee plant last year operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety. At the end of the year, all inspection findings and performance indicators were green or of low safety significance. As a result, the three Oconee units remain under the NRC’s normal level of oversight, which entails thousands of hours of inspection annually.