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. This story was originally published in Platts Electricity Alert http://www.electricityalert.platts.com
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