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Re: Alert Declared at N.Y. Nuclear Plant
Here is what can be found at http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/DAILY/der.htm
FACILITY: INDIAN POINT REGION: 1 |NOTIFICATION DATE:
02/15/2000|
| UNIT: [2] [] [] STATE: NY |NOTIFICATION TIME:
20:07[EST]|
| RXTYPE: [2] W-4-LP,[3] W-4-LP |EVENT DATE:
02/15/2000|
+------------------------------------------------+EVENT TIME:
19:29[EST]|
| NRC NOTIFIED BY: TOWNDSON |LAST UPDATE DATE:
02/15/2000|
| HQ OPS OFFICER: JOHN MacKINNON
+-----------------------------+
+------------------------------------------------+PERSON
ORGANIZATION |
|EMERGENCY CLASS: ALE |FRANK COSTELLO R1
|
|10 CFR SECTION: |RICHARD WESSMAN NRR
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|AAEC 50.72 (a) (1) (I) EMERGENCY DECLARED |JOSEPH GIITTER IRO
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+-----+----------+-------+--------+-----------------+--------+-----------------+
|UNIT |SCRAM CODE|RX CRIT|INIT PWR| INIT RX MODE |CURR PWR| CURR RX
MODE |
+-----+----------+-------+--------+-----------------+--------+-----------------+
|2 M/R Y 99 Power Operation |0 Hot Shutdown
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
EVENT TEXT
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| REACTOR MANUALLY TRIPPED DUE TO INDICATION OF A STEAM GENERATOR TUBE
RUPTURE |
| ON STEAM GENERATOR # 24.
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| The licensee was at 99% power when they received a nitrogen-16 alarm on
the |
| main steam and other indication of a Steam Generator Tube Rupture on
Steam |
| Generator # 24. Initial Steam Generator Tube Rupture was initially
estimated |
| at greater than 75 gallons per minute. The reactor was manually tripped
and |
| all rods fully inserted into the core. The faulted Steam Generator was
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| isolated. Currently reactor coolant system pressure is 2243 psig,
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| temperature is 547 þF and pressurizer level is being maintained at 35%.
The |
| licensee declared an Alert classification per EAL 3.1.2 (large amount of
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| water out of the reactor coolant system). The NRC entered Standby at 2049
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| EST.
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| The NRC response was deescalated to Monitoring at 2335 EST.
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| The NRC Resident Inspector was notified of this event by the licensee.
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mark sasser
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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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>
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>
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