Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee

Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee

8.2 DCISC Internet - Worldwide Web Page Activity, DCISC 17th Annual Report - July 1, 2006 thru June 30, 2007

The DCISC maintains a frequently updated web page on the worldwide web. The DCISC established its web page and presence on the internet to provide a convenient and accessible forum for interested members of the public to learn about the Committee, its history, background and role in safety oversight at DCPP; its current members and consultants; Volumes I and II of the Committee’s latest Annual Report (with the exception of certain of the exhibits unavailable in hyper-text format); the current schedule of future DCISC public meetings; and the agenda for the Committee’s next public meeting.

The web page also provides visitors with an opportunity to download or print pages from the DCISC web site and offers a convenient email link to permit interested persons to communicate directly with the Committee and to receive an expedited response to questions and concerns. When the Annual Report is finalized, the entire and fully functional report is published on the website and is also published and distributed to local public libraries and interested persons on compact disk.

The DCISC’s site on the worldwide web has been further developed during this report period and continues to provide a convenient and accessible forum for interested members of the public. The Committee continues to post the agendas for all its public meetings on the website, as well as general information about the Committee, its members and consultants. A list of useful links has been added to press releases by the Committee concerning its activities and topics of interest to the general public, to PG&E’s website for information concerning Diablo Canyon Power Plant, to the NRC and to the International Atomic Energy Agency for agency and industry-related information and to webcast of streaming video of its public meetings. The website also provides access to a convenient glossary of nuclear power terms and a list of acronyms in common use in the industry. Both Volumes of this Annual Report are available on the website in fully-linked hypertext format. The Committee’s presence on the worldwide web also provides the public with the ability to download and print pages directly from the DCISC web site and the Annual Report and offers a valuable opportunity to contact the Committee directly with questions or concerns about Diablo Canyon and to receive expedited response through use of a convenient email hyperlink.

The most meaningful statistics provided for July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007 were the actual “visits,” the actual, unique visitor numbers, regardless of how many pages that visitor actually viewed on the DCISC’s website during the period of this report included the following:

Worldwide Web Page Activity
Month Visits
July 2006 1,003
August 2006 1,049
September 2006 1,047
October 2006 1,195
November 2006 1,127
December2006 1,399
January 2007 1,045
February 2007 1,175
March 2007 1,259
April 2007 1,303
May 2007 1,254
June 2007 1,101

Among the most common “key words” typed into internet search engines, such as Google, MSN Search, Yahoo, Windows Live, EarthLink and AOL were: “diablo canyon nuclear”, “human performance outage execution”, “holtec inc.”, “ensa spain steam generator”, “preventive maintenance at nuclear power plants,” and “630 bolting”.

The most visited pages were:

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Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee
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