On 04/14/09 at approximately
0918 hours0.0106 days <br />0.255 hours <br />0.00152 weeks <br />3.49299e-4 months <br />, the Plant Shift Superintendent was notified of an oil spill that occurred on the plant site. A diesel generator sitting near a construction area was leaking fuel. Primary and
secondary containment was initiated to contain the spill. At
1130 hours0.0131 days <br />0.314 hours <br />0.00187 weeks <br />4.29965e-4 months <br /> environmental response personnel determined that the quantity of oil spilled exceeded the Reportable Quantity (
RQ).
At 1144 hours0.0132 days <br />0.318 hours <br />0.00189 weeks <br />4.35292e-4 months <br />, 04/14/2009, the Plant Shift Superintendent notified the National Response Center and the Ohio EPA that a Reportable Quantity (RQ) of oil (diesel fuel) was released to the environment.
Ohio EPA assigned incident #: 0904-66-1084.
National Response Center assigned incident #: 902636
ACD2-RG-044, Appendix N, section 1 requires an NRC event notification when other government agencies are notified.
The amount of fuel oil spilled was 25 to 40 gallons. Licensee will be issuing a press release about this spill.
- * * UPDATE AT 2241 ON 4/14/2009 FROM SPAETH TO ABRAMOVITZ * * *
The licensee is issuing a press release and has revised the estimated spill to 300 gallons.
Notified the R2DO (Widman), NMSS (Kokajko), and PAO (Hayden) via e-mail.
- * * UPDATE ON 4/15/2009 AT 1400 FROM SPAETH TO ABRAMOVITZ * * *
This event occurred at the American Centrifuge Plant (Docket 70-7004, license SNM-2011) and not the gaseous diffusion plant.
Notified the R2DO (Widman) and
NMSS (Kokajko) via e-mail.