NIRS paper on significant non-compliance with fire safety regulations at Browns Ferry 1.

Safety Deficiencies at Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Complex.

NIRS comments opposing a proposed NRC change to fire protection regulations for nuclear power plants that would allow manual actions to be substituted for qualified protective fire barriers around electrical cabling vital to shutting the reactor down in the event of fire.

NIRS allegation to NRC Nuclear Reactor Regulation regarding nuclear industry non-compliance with NRC Orders issued in 1998 to bring inoperable Thermo-Lag 330-1 fire barriers into compliance with federal law [10 CFR 50 Appendix R III.G.2] and instead substituting unapproved, largely unanalyzed and illegal Operator Manual Actions with a particular focus on Florida’s Crystal River nuclear power station.