Subject: Various
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:34:28 -0800 (PST)

Rika,
Just to let you know a couple of things:
1. The NRC (Chairman Meserve's executive assistant) called us specifically today to let us know the daily plant status was back.  However, they said they are still in a test mode and the data may not all be there and what's there may not all be accurate.  They are still working toward having everything up and rolling perfect by the end of the month (although it seems they will improve on that target).

2. The Indian Point 2 meeting was about what we expected.  The NRC has a little more confidence in the way Entergy is proceeding than it had in Con Edison.  However, IP2 remains the only plant in the country with multiple degraded cornerstones in the NRC's reactor oversight process, and is still weak in several of those areas including: Design Configuration Control, Human Performance, Equipment Reliability, Emergency Preparedness, and Corrective Actions.  One of the major disadvantages that Entergy has with IP2 is its location in the Northeast (Anti-nuke country).  There were more than 120 people at the meeting, of which about half were general public.  The public was not friendly and voiced complaints and protests against the quality of operation.  While this of itself will not hurt Entergy's operation efforts, it does bear heavily on the NRC's attitude toward the plant.  The NRC does not want to be embarrassed as it has in the past (most notably with Millstone).  If Entergy loses ground in their recovery efforts especially in the area of security, the NRC will step in to take more drastic action.

Dan