ML051460178
| ML051460178 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 04/17/2005 |
| From: | Dominion |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| FOIA/PA-2005-0207 | |
| Download: ML051460178 (1) | |
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A~PR-17-2005 SUN 02:50 P11 NUCLEAlR CQOIM. SERVICES FAX NO. 86U b4 14Y8 F. WUii 3w~ominion-NEWS RELEASE ReleAse #f 2 Date:
04-17.2005 Inforniattona u of: 3:30 p.ra. 4-17-2005 DOMINION INVESTIGATING CAUSE OF VNIT SHUTDOWN AT MLLSTONE POWER STATION WATERFORD, Conn. - Dominion is investigating thc cause of the automatic shutdown of Millstone Power Station Unit 3 Sunmdy.
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-Uni 3lis in a sfc, huitdoun mode. Nc.one at the power £tat~on was injured nd no/
release of radiation occurred. Pederal, State and local cmergency response age notified.
Domirnion declared an Alert, the second-lowest of four emergency classifications used by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissidn, at 8:42 a.m. Sunday after Unit 3 automatically shutdown becau'se of irndications oflow steam pressure in the secondary piping system.
The secondary piping systcm moves steAm from the steam generator to the turbine.
Millstone Unit 3 shut down automatically at 8:29 a.m. No release of radioactivo material occurred beyond those small releases associatcd with normal station operations. Those minor releases pose no danger to the public or station workers and are below federally approved operating limits, below natural background levels and cannot be detected at the site boundary.
Reactor operators and other personnel responded io the Alert as trained. Thcy wero able to bring Millstone Unit 3, which had bern operating at 100 percent, to safe shutdown status in an orderly mannor.
Millstone Unit 3, a I.I50-megawatt pressuriztd water rcactor, will remain shut down while the investigation occurs. No decision has been made on when the unit will be restarted.
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