The owners of New Hampshire's only nuclear power plant will head back to the drawing board after proposing changes to its emergency response plan. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says NextEra Energy has not justified a number of its requests for changes to its policies and protocols that would be triggered in the event of an emergency at Seabrook Station. According to documents submitted ahead of a public meeting on Tuesday, the changes proposed by NextEra focus on specific emergency response staff positions and the time allotted for staff members to report to the facility in the event of an emergency. The proposal does not call for reducing the number of staff working in the facility. However, it does call for the number of personnel especially trained in radiation exposure to be reduced, and that role to be replaced with other non-licensed operators in some situations. Under NextEra's proposal, key staff members would have more time to respond to the facility than currently allowed. The changes would extend the time electrical and mechanical maintenance technicians have to reach the facility from 60 minutes to 90 minutes during a potential emergency. C-10, an advocacy group made up of community members in the cities and towns within a seven-mile radius of the nuclear power plant, has been closely following these proposed changes. Sarah Abramson, the group's executive director, said she is cautiously optimistic about the decision from federal regulators to push back against NextEra's attempt to alter its emergency response plan. "Every minute counts in an emergency," Abramson said "We're talking about changing response times from 30 to 60 minutes up to 90 minutes. That's a 50 percent or a doubling of the response time." Concerns about a potential disaster were made worse in the summer of 2022 when a false alarm was triggered over load speakers at Hampton Beach. That created a temporary panic that something had gone wrong at the power plant.Abramson said especially in the wake of recent severe storms that have battered New Hampshire's Seacoast region, she fears the changes would hamstring an effective response in the wake of an emergency at the plant, and potentially endanger surrounding communities. "The roads that people would use to evacuate if there was a radiological emergency were unusable. It is on people's minds that these coastal storms and these storm surges are not just impacting our roads but are also crashing against the plant."In a statement to News 9, a NextEra spokesperson said it was the company's top priority to protect public health and safety, and said these areas would not be compromised as a result of the proposed changes. "The company will always ensure its facilities have appropriate staffing in everyday operations and in an emergency situation," the statement read in part. The spokesperson said NextEra plans to provide the NRC with additional information to demonstrate how their proposed changes would improve Seabrook's emergency preparedness and response process.