Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Athens, Ala., is shown from above.Federal regulators cited the Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday for an emergency plan that failed to adequately staff the control room at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a white inspection finding against TVA for a license violation in the plant’s radiological emergency plan. NRC staff said the violations had “low to moderate safety significance” and issued an order confirming that TVA corrected the inappropriate changes in the Browns Ferry emergency plan.
A white finding is the lowest in the NRC’s four-color enforcement action plan. Since Browns Ferry is already under heightened regulatory review because of other safety violations in the past, the latest finding will not change the way the NRC supervises the three-reactor plant near Athens, Ala.
There was no fine involved in the NRC citation.
TVA modified its emergency staffing from 2010 through 2013 but did not get the required license amendment and regulatory approval, NRC spokesman Roger Hannah said.