US NRC fines FirstEnergy $5.5-mil for Davis-Besse unit violations

Washington (Platts)--21Apr2005

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to fine FirstEnergy Nuclear
Operating Co (Fenoc) a total of $5.45-mil for violations connected with a
leakage from the 906-MW Besse Davis plant's reactor vessel head, it said
Thursday. 

The agency said $5-mil of the fine was for restarting the Ohio plant after an
outage in 2000 "without fully characterizing and eliminating" the leakage. The
plant was shut down for two years after the discovery in 2002 of severe
degradation resulting from the leakage. The other $450,000 of the fine was for
providing incomplete and inaccurate information to the NRC. Fenoc has 90 days
to respond to the proposal. A spokesman for the company said it was reviewing
the documents the NRC had provided.

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