Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following announcement on April 16.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will discuss the 2017 safety performance of the Robinson nuclear power
plant, operated by Duke Energy, during an open house on April 24 at the Hartsville Library, 147 College Ave.,
Hartsville, S.C. The single-unit Robinson plant is located near Hartsville, 26 miles northwest of Florence.
The open house will run from 5:30-6:30 p.m., and NRC employees responsible for plant inspections, including
the resident inspectors based full-time at the site, will be available to discuss its performance.
The NRC concluded that the Robinson plant operated safely during 2017. At the end of the year, all inspection
findings and performance indicators were green or of low safety significance. As a result, Robinson remains
under the NRC’s normal level of oversight, which entails thousands of hours of inspection each year.
The NRC Reactor Oversight Process uses color-coded inspection findings and indicators to measure plant
performance. The colors start at green and increase to white, yellow or red, commensurate with the safety
significance of the issues involved. Inspection findings or performance indicators with more than very low
safety significance trigger increased NRC oversight.
Inspections are performed by two NRC resident inspectors and inspection specialists from the NRC Region II
office in Atlanta.
The annual assessment letter for the Robinson plant, as well as the notice for the open house,
are available on the NRC website. Current performance information is also available.
Original source can be found here.
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