NRC staff to change component inspection from biennial to triennial basis

摘要

NRC staff said it will be reducing the frequency of a newly implemented inspection that top agency officials have touted to lawmakers and the public as a significant improvement to the reactor oversight process, or ROP. Terrence Reis, NRC's chief of the reactor inspection branch, said at an October 18 meeting that the staff will conduct the component design bases inspection, or CDBI, on a triennial, rather than biennial, basis. But he said the scope of the inspection would not change, at least for now.