Re: Alert Declared at N.Y. Nuclear Plant

[mark sasser <duke99301@yahoo.com>]

Do'es anyone Know What happend? was it A genny Leak Or
a steam leak?

--- Sandy Perle <sandyfl@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Alert Declared at N.Y. Nuclear Plant
> 
> BUCHANAN, N.Y. (Feb. 16) - A leak in a steam
> generator at a 
> Hudson River nuclear power plant resulted in a brief
> release of 
> radioactive steam but it was below dangerous levels,
> power 
> company officials said.
> 
> Consolidated Edison, which owns and operates the
> Indian Point 2 
> plant in northern Westchester County, declared an
> alert, the 
> second of four increasingly serious emergency
> classifications, 
> company spokesman Michael Spall said.
> 
> There were no evacuations, Spall said. Buchanan is
> about 35 miles 
> north of New York City.
> 
> Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
> were monitoring 
> the scene. The air around the plant was measured for
> radiation, 
> and results showed nothing above normal levels, Con
> Edison said.
> 
> The size and duration of the leak had not been
> measured.
> 
> Spall said the plant was shut down, but there had
> been ''a 
> momentary release of radioactive material to the
> environment, 
> below any level that poses a threat to the safety of
> plant personnel 
> or the public.''
> 
> Radioactive steam was released for ''a few seconds''
> and initially 
> was held within the plant's containment building,
> the sealed 
> concrete building that holds the reactor, Spall
> said. Later it was 
> determined that some steam also was released into
> the air 
> surrounding the plant, Spall said.
> 
> He described the plant as stable but said the alert
> would last 
> several hours overnight as the shutoff reactor is
> cooled.
> 
> Although county officials activated the emergency
> operations 
> center in White Plains, they were ''confident the
> situation is under 
> control,'' county spokeswoman Adele Dowling said.
> 
> The accident occurred at 7:29 p.m. in a tube used to
> carry hot, 
> radioactive, high-pressure water to a pool of cool,
> non-radioactive 
> water, Spall said. When the hot water hits the cool
> water, steam is 
> produced, which turns a turbine and generates
> electricity.
> 
> Federal, state and local authorities were notified,
> Spall said.
> 
> The alert was the first in the plant's 16-year
> history, Spall said.
>
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