ENS Event | |
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21:15 Jul 16, 2009 | |
| Title | Alert Declared Due to a Fire in an Abandoned Cooling Tower |
| Event Description | An ALERT was declared at 1715 due to a fire lasting greater than 15 minutes. The fire is in an abandoned cooling tower (bldg X-633D) on the Department of Energy portion of the site. The fire is not in proximity to any safety related equipment. A request for assistance was made to Scioto and Adams counties Fire Departments.
At 1917, the licensee reported that the fire was out and the firemen were removing siding and looking for residual hot spots.
The fire is out and the ALERT has been terminated. Recovery operations are in progress and a fire watch will be stationed throughout the night. Notified R2DO (O'Donohue), R2 Deputy RA (McCree), NMSS (Weber), NMSS EO (Kotzalas), DHS (Kettles), FEMA (Biscoe), DOE (Parsons), HHS (Nunn), USDA (Timmons), and EPA (Threatt). |
| Where | |
|---|---|
| Portsmouth Piketon, Ohio (NRC Region 2) | |
| License number: | GDP-2 |
| Reporting | |
| Emergency class: | Alert |
| 10 CFR 76.120(a)(4) | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-3.73 h-0.155 days <br />-0.0222 weeks <br />-0.00511 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Eric Spaeth 17:31 Jul 16, 2009 |
| NRC Officer: | Mark Abramovitz |
| Last Updated: | Jul 16, 2009 |
| 45208 - NRC Website
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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant with 10 CFR 76.120(a)(4) | |
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[Table view]10 CFR 76.120(a)(4) Alert Declared Due to a Fire in an Abandoned Cooling Tower 2009-07-16T21:15:00 | |