Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will discuss the 2022 safety performance for the
Seabrook nuclear power plant during a public meeting on June 27 in Hampton, New Hampshire.
The plant, located in Seabrook, New Hampshire, is operated by NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC.
The meeting will be held at the Best Western Plus-The Inn at Hampton, 815 Lafayette Road,
beginning at 5:30 p.m., Eastern time. NRC staff responsible for oversight of the plant, including the
resident inspectors based full-time at Seabrook, will deliver a short presentation on NRC’s
assessment of performance, followed by a question-and-answer session.
The NRC determined Seabrook operated safely in 2022. At the end of the year, all
inspection findings and performance indicators were of very low safety significance, or green. As a
result, it 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 at Seabrook are performed by NRC resident inspectors and other specialist
inspectors from the NRC Region I office in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and NRC headquarters
in Rockville, Maryland. The annual assessment letter is available on the NRC website. Current
performance information for the site is available and updated quarterly.
