NRC to relaunch US nuclear plant status report
Date: 08-Mar-02
Country: USA
"The target date for the plant status report is March 31," said Victor Drecks, spokesman for the NRC.
The NRC pulled the report, which chronicles the operating status of the nation's 103 nuclear power plants, about a month after the Sept 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon to limit public access to information on the plants.
Nuclear power stations account for about a fifth of all electricity generated in the U.S.
Knowing which plants are shut for maintenance or repairs is prized information in the electricity market since outages have a direct impact on the supply of megawatts available to meet demand, which in turn affects wholesale power prices.