FP&L’s St. Lucie-1 returns to normal oversight after supplemental inspection

摘要

Florida Power & Light’s St. Lucie-1 returned to normal NRC oversightrnOctober 1 following a supplemental inspection that determined FP&L’srncorrective actions were sufficient to address an August 2016 reactorrntrip that resulted in a loss of off-site power at the unit.rnIn April, NRC had increased oversight of St. Lucie-1 based on arnwhite inspection finding related to the reactor trip, moving the unitrnfrom column 1 to column 2 of the agency’s reactor oversight processrneffective retroactively to October 1, 2016 (INRC, 1 May, 4). Column 1rnrepresents the normal level of NRC oversight. Power reactor licenseesrnare subject to increasingly greater oversight as they move tornhigher-numbered columns in the five-column process.