NRC increases oversight of FPL's Turkey Point-3 for unplanned shutdowns

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Florida Power & Light’s 885-MW Turkey Point-3 nuclear unit will receiveincreased oversight from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commissionfollowing four unplanned automatic shutdowns, or scrams, in recentmonths, an NRC spokesman said May 11.The unit was moved from column 1, or normal oversight, tocolumn 2 of the agency's five-column reactor oversight process,effective the first quarter of 2021, Scott Burnell said. Reactors aremoved to higher-numbered columns as oversight increases, withunits in column 5 required to shut until safety issues are addressed.