Westinghouse has completed corrective actions at Columbia fuel facility

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Westinghouse has completed implementation of corrective actions tornprevent uranium buildup in equipment at its Columbia, South Carolinarnfuel fabrication facility, but enhanced NRC oversight under arnconfirmatory order will continue until 2020, according to company andrnagency officials.rnOperations in the uranium conversion area of the plant were shut inrnJuly 2016 following the discovery that May of an excessivernaccumulation of uranium in a ventilation scrubber. In August 2017, NRCrnissued a confirmatory order requiring the company to undertake arnseries of corrective actions (NF, 14 Aug ‘17, 5).rnDuring a public meeting with Westinghouse officials February 6,rnEric Michel, a branch chief in the division of fuel facility inspection inrnNRC’s Region II office, said that “all corrective actions to preventrnrecurrence have been completed.”rnNRC plans to conduct a supplemental inspection at Columbia thernweek of February 26, and in May the agency will inspect the facility’srnnuclear safety culture, Michel said.rnNRC “will continue to monitor” Westinghouse’s periodic cleanoutsrnof uranium from the ventilation scrubber system “for the foreseeablernfuture,” he said.