NRC to complete spent fuel pool analyses this year

Washington (Platts)--18Aug2005

NRC started conducting site-specific spent fuel pool assessments in July and
will complete them by year-end, the agency reported to a congressional
oversight committee. NRC finished nine assessments last month and has 24
scheduled this month. The rest will be completed before 2006, according to
information provided in an Aug. 11 letter to Senate Environment & Public Works
Committee Chairman George Voinovich (R-Ohio). The letter, posted publicly
today on NRC's electronic database Adams, was signed by NRC Commissioner
Jeffrey Merrifield, who was serving as acting chairman the day it was signed.
"The NRC is conducting these assessments to identify additional mitigation
strategies to enhance the spent fuel pool cooling safety function under severe
circumstances challenging the functional capabilities of the plant," he wrote.

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