NRC will conduct a special inspection at Arkansas Nuclear One in response
to a fire that led to a declaration of an alert at the two-unit Entergy plant
on October 23, NRC's Region IV office said October 31. An alert is the second
lowest of NRC?s four categories of emergency classification.
A two-person team "will review the circumstances related to electrical
breaker problems that affected a piece of safety equipment," as well as "a
similar electrical fire in October 2006 that also led to an alert," it said.
The inspectors "will evaluate the licensee's response to both events, the
cause of the problems and corrective actions," the agency said. The inspection
will begin November 1 and take "several days," and a report will be filed
about 30-45 days after the inspection is completed, NRC said.