The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has scheduled a regulatory conference with officials of NextEra Energy Point Beach LLC on Monday, July 22, to discuss a preliminary inspection finding in the area of external flooding response. 

The two-unit plant is located in Two Rivers, Wis., about 13 miles northwest of Manitowoc.

NRC and company officials will discuss the significance of the inspection finding, which involved the failure to have an appropriate procedure to respond to an external flooding situation as described in the plant’s final safety analysis. 

The meeting [1] is scheduled for 1 p.m. CDT in the NRC’s Region III office, located at 2443 Warrenville Road, in Lisle, Ill. The public is invited to observe this meeting and will have one or more opportunities to communicate with the NRC after the business portion, but before the meeting is adjourned. Interested members of the public can participate in this meeting via a toll-free audio teleconference.

The NRC evaluates regulatory performance at commercial nuclear power plants with a colorcoded system which classifies findings as green, white, yellow or red, in increasing order of safety significance. The NRC’s preliminary evaluation determined that the violation at Point Beach was “yellow,” which means it has substantial safety significance. 

The NRC inspection report in which the apparent violation is documented is publicly available on the NRC website. [2]