ML052270056
| ML052270056 | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 04/17/2005 |
| From: | NRC Region 1 |
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| 41607, FOIA/PA-2005-0207, NRC-372 | |
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Tape: ENS TAPE 2, SIDE A, 12:31-19:17 Work Order No.: NRC-372 Pages 1-47 NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.
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1 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
4 HEADQUARTERS OPERATIONS CENTER 5
6 TELEPHONE CONVERSATION(S) 7 RE MILLSTONE ALERT DECLARATION 8 OF APRIL 17, 2005 9
10 EVENT NO. 41607 11 ENS Bridge Tape 2, Side A, 12:31-19:17 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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2 1 P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S 2 MR. PARTICIPANT: . . . and the state 3 officials and all of the first select men within the 4 emergency planning zone get a page, and they can call 5 in and get a recording as to what the instant report 6 form content is.
7 Those were faxed to Region I 8 MR. PARTICIPANT: We have not received 9 those, John.
10 MR. PARTICIPANT: I faxed them to the 11 Region I office.
12 MR. PARTICIPANT: We have not received 13 those.
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: I understand you have 15 not received them.
16 MR. PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible).
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: We'll give you another 18 number.
19 MR. PARTICIPANT: Well, maybe they're 20 coming in now. They're coming in now. We've got to 21 right that, John. They're coming in now.
22 MR. PARTICIPANT: We understand they're 23 coming in now.
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: We have one, yes.
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3 1 three instant report forms and one news release form.
2 The news release form goes out to the 3 paper press.
4 MR. PARTICIPANT: And you sent that to us 5 also?
6 MR. PARTICIPANT: That's correct. I did 7 send that to you. That release was made at 11:17.
8 Okay.
9 MR. PARTICIPANT: John, are you in the EOF 10 (phonetic) or TSC (phonetic).
11 MR. PARTICIPANT: I am in the EOL, that's 12 correct.
13 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. We needed to 14 establish communication with the DSE. Can you help me 15 do that?
16 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, I can. Is there a 17 number that you want them to call or do you want them 18 to call the 301-816-5100?
19 MR. PARTICIPANT: That's correct.
20 MR. PARTICIPANT: And you want them --
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: And they should ask for 22 the reactor safety -- no, th(e ENS Bridge.
23 MR. PARTICIPANT: A-N-S?
24 MR. PARTICIPANT E-N-S. Emergency 25 Notification --
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4 1 MR. PARTICIPANT: ENS Bridge. Right.
2 Understand.
3 And who would you like to speak to?
4 MR. PARTICIPANT: The communicator.
5 MR. PARTICIPANT: The technical support 6 center does not have a communicator. All the 7 communications come out through the EOF (phonetic) 8 here. It comes through me.
9 MR. PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible) 10 MR. PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible) 11 MR. PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible) 12 MR. PARTICIPANT: Mike Webber's on the 13 bridge.
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible) 15 MR. PARTICIPANT: Mike, this is Jim Dyer 16 and I -- thLis is an ongoing alert. We attended a 17 briefing novv. I can take you on a different line.
18 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Whatever works 19 for you, Ji-m. You're there in the Ops Center I 20 understand.
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.
22 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. John Ryan, it's 23 Wayne Lanning again. Cancel that request for a 24 communicator from the TSC.
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5 1 to cancel the TSC communicator request.
2 MR. PARTICIPANT: That's right.
3 (Inaudible) We're still in a standby for the tailpipe 4 temperatures.
5 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes. The tailpipe 6 temperatures right now are 220 degrees and stable.
7 MR. PARTICIPANT: And what's your 8 interpretation of that with regard to leakage?
9 MR. PARTICIPANT: I'd have to get back to 10 you on that as to whether the TSC has determined 11 whether there's any significant leakage coming at that 12 __
13 MR. PARTICIPANT: John, is anybody be able 14 to determine where the leakage will be from by 15 acoustic monitors or from the tailpipe temperature.
16 MR. PARTICIPANT: I haven't been able to 17 establish that right now. But we can look at that out 18 here at EOF. What I'm going to do is I'm going to get 19 the TSC to answer that question for us, their 20 technical support center.
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: Are you also interested 22 to see if there's any thoughts of closing the block 23 off.
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: Well, the pressurizer 25 safety valves do not have block valves.
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6 1 MR. PARTICIPANT: Well, you've established 2 then that it's leaking from the safety valve and not 3 PORV.
4 MR. PARTICIPANT: We believe that it's 5 leaking from the safety. Because we did have one 6 safety that did open.
7 MR. PARTICIPANT: Had it opened before the 8 PORVs opened.
9 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, it did. At the 10 present time PORV block valve status is intermittent.
11 I have a partial closure on it.
12 MR. PARTICIPANT: John, would you say that 13 again, had you indicated that the block valve on the 14 PORV?
15 MR. PARTICIPANT: The block valves right 16 now on the indication are reading partial. I just 17 have a closed slash partial status, and right now both 18 are reading partial.
19 MR. PARTICIPANT: Is that two valve?
20 MR. PARTICIPANT: That is two valve. That 21 is RCS number Z8000 alpha and bravo. (Inaudible). At 22 the present time we're getting information on that, 23 whether or not the control room has more information 24 on that partial status there.
25 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Thank you, John.
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7 1 We're also standing by for when you get 2 the results from the D generator secondary side.
3 MR. PARTICIPANT: Delta. Delta steam 4 generator.
5 MR. PARTICIPANT: Delta.
6 MR. PARTICIPANT: That's correct. So I 7 have a delta steam generator sample that I will get 8 back to you on as well as a state on what the block 9 valve status means by saying partial.
10 MR. PARTICIPANT: And also an evaluation 11 of the tailpipe temperatures.
12 MR. PARTICIPANT: And evaluation of 13 tailpipe temperatures. That's correct.
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: Now I understand that 15 you're in the process of removing the contents from 16 the PRT, is that correct?
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes. What we're doing 18 is we're pumping down the PRT and then filling it with 19 primary grade water to get the temperature down. And 20 get it within it's normal ban.
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Could you also 22 confirm you still have no sump level indication as far 23 as readings.
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, just a second. I 25 can confirm that.
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8 1 MR. PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible) 2 MR. RYAN: Wayne, this is John Ryan 3 (phonetic).
4 MR. PARTICIPANT: Go ahead, John. Wayne 5 here.
6 MR. RYAN: Yes. Both PORV block valve, 7 pressurizer PORV block valves are open.
8 MR. PARTICIPANT: Help me understand that.
9 The indication that one of those are leaking --
10 MR. RYAN: We don't believe the PORV are 11 leaking. We believe the leakage is actually coming 12 from a safety valve. And that safety valve does not 13 have a block valve on it.
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Help me 15 understand that, John. Is that because of what kind 16 of indication that gives you confidence that the PORVs 17 are not leaking?
18 MR. RYAN: That's what we're doing the 19 tailpipe evaluation on right now.
20 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. So that's to be 21 determined?
22 MR. RYAN: That's to be determined.
23 That's correct.
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9 1 event?
2 MR. RYAN: We still do not have what 3 caused the event.
4 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Thank you.
5 (Inaudible).
6 MR. HOFFNER: Millstone station on line.
7 MR. LANNING: Is that the emer -gency 8 director? This is Wayne Lanning (phonetic) a t the 9 IRC.
10 MR. HOFFNER: Yes, this is Bill Hoffner 11 (phonetic). I'm the Director of Station Emergency 12 Operations. I also Dave Dobson (phonetic) and Steve 13 Scase (phonetic) in here with me.
14 MR. LANNING: Okay, Bill.
15 We just got briefed by John Ryan regarding 16 plant conditions. I'd be interested in a couple of 17 strategies on your part. The first, what is your plan 18 going forth?
19 MR. HOFFNER: Our plan is to complete the 20 emergency EOP ES 1.1, which is safety injection 21 termination. Then we will transition to normal plant 22 operating procedures which will have us initiate plant 23 cool down. We will initiate plant cool down to cold 24 shutdown.
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10 1 understand that you are still in the alert status.
2 MR. HOFFNER: That is correct, Wayne.
3 MR. LANNING: Can you share with me what 4 some of the parameters are that would permit you to 5 exit that EAL?
6 MR. HOFFNER: Steam safety is go. What 7 we're looking right now is to get the plant starting 8 to cool down. We are looking at containment pressure 9 right now because we lost cooling water to 10 containment, the pressure is just slightly above tech 11 spec pressure. So once we begin the cool down and we 12 get containment pressure back in spec. We're already 13 reviewing our termination checklist right now. So we 14 would expect later this afternoon to be able to 15 terminate.
16 MR. LANNING: Can you expand upon the 17 reasons for the loss of containment cooling? That's 18 new information to us.
19 MR. HOFFNER: Containment, it's actually 20 a chill water system. And that's a nonsafety system 21 that post action it isolates -- chiller portion. And 22 so we've reset that and we've reinitiated it.
23 MR. LANNING: Thank you for that. I 24 understand you reinitiated chill water containment 25 cooling?
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11 1 MR. PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible) 2 MR. LANNING: Bill, could you confirm for 3 us conditions inside containment in terms of 4 temperature and humidity, for example?
5 MR. HOFFNER: I would have to get that 6 data, Wayne. We've had no reports of any indication 7 that, other than from the loss of coolant, any 8 indication of any leakage or anything like that, if 9 that's -- if that's what the questions are heading 10 towards. Because right now it's solely a loss of 11 coolant that's caused the pressure to go up.
12 MR. LANNING: That's the question.
13 MR. HOFFNER: The other -- right. We do 14 have a small amount of leakage going through either 15 one of the PORVs or safety that's going into the PRT, 16 primary relief tank. We have been pumping that down.
17 So the pressure -- primary relief tank, PRT, is 18 intact.
19 MR. LANNING: Bill, I understand that your 20 two block valves for the PORVs are still open, is that 21 correct?
22 MR. HOFFNER: They are still open. We were 23 going to go and cycle them to see if that could stop 24 the leakage. What we have is we have three safeties 25 and two PRVs and they all come into a common line. So NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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12 1 we want to see if the leakage into the PRT we can 2 isolate by shutting one of the two block valves. So 3 we're going to be working through that very shortly.
4 MR. LANNING: Okay. Bill, I understand 5 you had a packing leak in the auxiliary building from 6 the charging system. Is that correct and does that 7 constitute a release?
8 MR. HOFFNER: We did have a confirmed 9 leak, a packing leak off the charging lines. The 10 charging line that leaked is not a normal flow path 11 line. Following the safety injection they released to 12 the charging pumps, got a line back to our alternate 13 F8 (phonetic). The valve that leaked was on this line 14 and the line has been isolated.
15 We have no airborne indications at all, no 16 change in our rad monitors, effluent. We do have some 17 amount of surface contamination that we're in the 18 process of cleaning up. And it's just down to the area 19 specifically around the water charging pumps where the 20 valves are located.
21 Wayne, did you receive that?
22 MR. LANNING: That's affirmative. I did 23 receive that.
24 I also understand that you have no 25 airborne alarms or elevated levels?
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13 1 MR. HOFFNER: Yes. We've seen no trends in 2 any of our rad monitors that would indicate any 3 airborne effluent releases.
4 MR. LANNING: Okay. I understand you have 5 no indication or trends in rad releases. Okay. Stand 6 by. All right.
7 Bill, thank you for your briefing.
8 Anything else you want to add?
9 MR. HOFFNER: Call John Ryan and I can get 10 back on the line with you, okay?
11 MR. LANNING: You were breaking up. Say 12 again.
13 MR. HOFFNER: Said if you guys need any 14 further questions, you can call John Ryan and and he's 15 on ops net and he can arrange for me to get back on 16 the phone with you.
17 MR. LANNING: Hey, Bill, just one last 18 question: Have you had any press interest?
19 MR. HOFFNER: Press is going through --
20 we've activated chief tech support, Grossman in 21 Hartford (phonetic) and they're handling the press 22 release up here. We've had none directly into the 23 EOF.
24 MR. LANNING: You had no press inquiries, 25 is that what you said?
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14 1 MR. HOFFNER: In Hartford. We've had none 2 at our EOF facility.
3 MR. LANNING: Okay. All right. Thank 4 you, Bill, for your brief.
5 Duty Officer, are you on line? Headquarter 6 Duty Officer?
7 MR. PARTICIPANT: Hey, Jim -- I mean 8 Wayne?
9 MR. LANNING: Yes. Wayne here.
10 MR. HOFFNER: Do you need me on the line 11 anymore or can I go?
12 MR. LANNING: I'm sorry, who is that?
13 MR. HOFFNER: Duty Officer at Millstone.
14 Do you need us on line anymore?
15 MR. LANNING: I still didn't catch the 16 name. Say again.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Hey, Wayne. This is Max.
18 That was Bill Hoffner. He's the operations manager.
19 MR. LANNING: We need to maintain 20 communications with Mr. Ryan.
21 MR. RYAN: This is Mr. Ryan. I'm on the 22 line.
23 MR. LANNING: Okay. John, we're going to 24 separate these communications bridges here in 25 headquarters.
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15 1 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. This is the 2 headquarters operations officer. You want all the 3 bridges separated out or do you want the ET briefing 4 bridge to still remain connected to the counterpart 5 link.
6 MR. LANNING: Separate the emergency 7 notification bridge out from the management and 8 reactor safety bridge.
9 MR. PARTICIPANT: I'm disconnecting them 10 now. Is the licensee still on the bridge?
11 MR. PARTICIPANT: This is Millstone 12 Station on the bridge.
13 MR. PARTICIPANT: I understand.
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: Millstone, this is NRC 15 Region I.
16 MR. PARTICIPANT: This is Millstone.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: John, I'm just doing a 18 communication checks, just making sure you and I are 19 still talking.
20 MR. LANNING: Understand.
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: I'm going to do a 22 release, turn it over to Kevin Bingl.
23 MR. LANNING: Okay.
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: So I'll let you know 25 when I'm going off the line. (Inaudible). Understand?
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16 1 MR. LANNING: Understand.
2 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. I'm not going off 3 line for probably another five minutes.
4 MR. LANNING: Okay.
5 MR. PARTICIPANT: Millstone, this is NRC 6 Region I.
7 MR. RYAN: NRC Region I this is John Ryan.
8 Larry?
9 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, John. I just --
10 I'm doing a communications check. I got dropped off 11 and I just came back on.
12 MR. RYAN: Right. And I've been trying to 13 call you.
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.
15 MR. RYAN: I have the four hour 16 notification form that needs to be sent to the NRC.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.
18 MR. RYAN: And I was wondering, should we 19 fax that to you?
20 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes. But I think you 21 still got to tell the headquarter's duty officer.
22 MR. RYAN: Right. Through the normal 23 reporting event.
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: Right.
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17 1 regular duty officer?
2 MR. PARTICIPANT: Right.
3 MR. RYAN: Okay.
4 MR. PARTICIPANT: But if you want to fax 5 me a copy of it, that would be great, too.
6 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Then I'm not 7 going to put down the notification time when I'm 8 talking to you. I'll make sure that that duty officer 9 gets that.
10 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.
11 MR. RYAN: Okay. Do you know who that is?
12 MR. PARTICIPANT: No, I don't. I'll find 13 out. But we will fax it to you after we get it to him, 14 okay?
15 MR. PARTICIPANT: I appreciate that.
16 MR. RYAN: Okay.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Thank you.
18 MR. PARTICIPANT: Region I, this is 19 Millstone.
20 MR. RYAN: This is Region I. Larry, this 21 is John Ryan. I'm be shifting phones with Kevin 22 Bingl. And Kevin will be the manager (Inaudible) 23 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. I understand 24 you're shifting to -- what's his first name?
25 MR. RYAN: Kevin.
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18 1 MR. PARTICIPANT: Kevin. Okay.
2 MR. RYAN: Bingl. B-I-N-G-L.
3 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.
4 MR. RYAN: Okay.
5 MR. PARTICIPANT: Thank you.
6 MR. RYAN: So we'll be off the line in a 7 minute.
8 MR. PARTICIPANT: I understand.
9 MR. RYAN: And I'll have him do a 10 communicate check once he's back on.
11 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.
12 MR. RYAN: Thanks.
13 MR. RYAN: Okay.
14 MR. BINGL: Larry Doerflein from Region I.
15 Kevin Bingl, Millstone Station. And a communicate 16 phone check.
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes. Kevin, this Larry 18 Dorf in Region I. And I hear you. Loud and clear.
19 MR. BINGL: You hear me loud and clear.
20 I hear you also loud and clear.
21 So I have relieved John Ryan (Inaudible).
22 MR. DOERFLEIN: I understand you have 23 relieved John Ryan.
24 MR. BINGL: That is correct.
25 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right. Thank you.
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19 1 Millstone, this is NRC Region I.
2 MR. BINGL: To Region I, Millstone.
3 MR. DOERFLEIN: Hey, Kevin, one of the 4 questions that came up during the status brief dealt 5 with sampling the steam generators, and at that time 6 we were told that three of them were sampled and they 7 were still sampling delta.
8 MR. BINGL: That's correct.
9 MR. DOERFLEIN: My management is 10 interested in those results when they come in.
11 MR. BINGL: Larry, I'll get you an update 12 of the sample for delta steam generator.
13 MR. DOERFLEIN: Good enough. All right.
14 Thank you.
15 MR. BINGL: Larry, this Kevin, Millstone 16 Station.
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is NRC Region I.
18 MR. BINGL: Yes. Larry, you have received 19 the report that had sampled alpha bravo charlie with 20 no (Inaudible) activity, is that correct?
21 MR. DOERFLEIN: Correct.
22 MR. BINGL: The sample flow path was 23 isolated prior to drawing a sample from delta. They 24 have since been working to establish a sample flow 25 path.
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20 1 MR. DOERFLEIN: You're breaking up a 2 little bit. Do I understand you have not sampled 3 delta?
4 MR. BINGL: That's correct.
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. So sample will be 6 started or something?
7 MR. BINGL: Yes.
8 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right. Thank you.
9 When you do get the results, just pass them on please.
10 MR. BINGL: I will pass down the results 11 of all four steam generators. All four being re-12 sampled.
13 MR. DOERFLEIN: But the other three were 14 sampled?
15 MR. BINGL: The other three were sampled 16 less than minimum detectable activity, unfortunately 17 they didn't get a sample on delta.
18 MR. DOERFLEIN: Understand. Thank you.
19 Millstone, this is Region I.
20 MR. BINGL: Go ahead, Region I. This is 21 Millstone.
22 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes. Kevin, this is Larry 23 Dorf. Is there -- while you're still sampling the D 24 stream-- the delta steam generator, do you have any 25 other information on it that would lead one to believe NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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21 1 that there's not an issue there like any rad --
2 blowdown rad level monitors or maybe the N16 3 (phonetic) monitors before the event; is there 4 anything else that would indicate that there's nothing 5 abnormal with that generator prior to getting the 6 sample?
7 MR. BINGL: You want to know if there was 8 any indication of primary secondary leakage on delta 9 or any steam generator or blowdown rad monitors, or 10 the 16 alarm prior to the event?
11 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right.
12 MR. BINGL: I believe -- I don't know.
13 I've seen the reports and there's no unusual rise in 14 any rad monitors, but before I answer that question 15 let me verify that.
16 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Thank you.
17 Millstone, this is NRC Region I.
18 MR. BINGL: Go ahead, Region I.
19 Millstone.
20 MR. DOERFLEIN: Kevin?
21 MR. BINGL: Yes.
22 MR. DOERFLEIN: I've been requested by my 23 management to get another status update. I know Ryan 24 -- Mr. Ryan started the last one about an hour ago.
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22 1 finished it. I don't know who that would be. Probably 2 the ED, probably be the person, Mr. Ray Hoffner 3 (phonetic), I guess it is.
4 MR. BINGL: Bill Hoffner?
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: Bill. If he's available, 6 say in the next five to ten minutes, just to give us 7 a current update on status, we'd appreciate it.
8 MR. BINGL: You'd like an update from the 9 emergency director.
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes, if he's available.
11 MR. BINGL: Okay. And in a 10 + 0 minute 12 time frame?
13 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
14 MR. BINGL: For an update on the bridge.
15 Which bridge would that be?
16 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes. We're not going to 17 try to connect the bridges again because that caused 18 some confusion.
19 MR. BINGL: Yes.
20 MR. DOERFLEIN: If he just call into our 21 ops center and ask for the management bridge, that 22 would do it.
23 MR. BINGL: Call into the ops -- the 24 management bridge did you say?
25 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
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23 1 MR. BINGL: I'll pass along that request.
2 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. If he can't do it, 3 maybe -- maybe you can do it. I don't know.
4 But another question came up also that 5 maybe would be able to be addressed in the next five 6 to ten minutes, I don't know.
7 The MSI, are you able to reset that signal 8 or is there something preventing you from opening 9 MSIVs and cooling down.
10 MR. BINGL: The question is are we able to 11 reset the MSI signal or to open MSIVs to the flow path 12 (Inaudible) -- hello.
13 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
14 MR. BINGL: The question was confirm the 15 MSI, are we able to reset MSI or to open the MSIVs to 16 perform the cool down --
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: Well, I'm not saying it's 18 a preferred method. Maybe your procedures direct you 19 to do something else.
20 MR. BINGL: Yes.
21 MR. DOERFLEIN: But it seems like -- it 22 seems like for some reason you haven't been able to 23 reset the MSI, and I don't know if that's valid or 24 that's just the way your procedures direct you to 25 keep operating.
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24 1 MR. BINGL: I'll find out.
2 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right. Thank you.
3 MR. BINGL: Region I, Larry, this is 4 Millstone.
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is Region I.
6 MR. BINGL: Yes. Larry, one of your 7 questions prior to the event would indicate the 8 primary and secondary leakage from N16 to blow down.
9 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right.
10 MR. BINGL: And the answer is no. Our 11 (Inaudible).
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Thank you.
13 MR. BINGL: Okay. Hey, Larry?
14 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
15 MR. BINGL: Bill Hoffner (Inaudible) speak 16 with you.
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: I'm sorry, you were cut 18 out.
19 MR. BINGL: The Director of Station 20 Emergency Operations is Bill Hoffner. He has accepted 21 that request to contact your ops center on the 22 management bridge.
23 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
24 MR. BINGL: In ten or 15 minutes.
25 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Thank you.
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25 1 MR. BINGL: You're welcome.
2 MR. DOERFLEIN: NRC Region I.
3 MR. BINGL: Larry, this is Kevin. The NRC 4 event notification?
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
6 MR. BINGL: Was faxed at 1342.
7 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. And they also 8 requested at that time event notification form and all 9 the previous incident report forms and updates. Would 10 you like a copy of everything that was sent faxed to 11 you?
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes, please.
13 MR. BINGL: You would like a copy of that 14 fax.
15 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes. When you say it was 16 already faxed, you're talking to the headquarters duty 17 officer, right? The NRC headquarters?
18 MR. BINGL: Yes. The NRC operations 19 center.
20 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right. Right. I'm sorry.
21 MR. BINGL: I'm going to fax just as is.
22 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
23 MR. BINGL: It actually shows like two 24 other faxes, cover sheets and everything.
25 MR. DOERFLEIN: That's fine.
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26 1 MR. BINGL: You know, it's going to come 2 out with the complete history.
3 MR. DOERFLEIN: I'll understand.
4 MR. BINGL: Okay?
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right. Thank you, 6 Kevin.
7 MR. BINGL: Larry, Kevin.
8 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes, this is Larry Dorf.
9 MR. BINGL: Larry, Bill Hoffner, he's 10 asking which number specifically to call because he 11 hasn't been able to get through.
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: He has to call -- what's 13 the number to get on the bridge?
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.
15 MR. DOERFLEIN: Hey, Kevin? Kevin?
16 MR. BINGL: Yes, Larry.
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes, this Larry Dorf.
18 I think he's on the line already. In 19 fact, I was just told he's getting to brief them.
20 MR. BINGL: Okay. He looks like he's on 21 the line.
22 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
23 MR. BINGL: Okay.
24 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right.
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27 1 he's talking to somebody. So he hooked up.
2 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Sorry about the 3 confusion.
4 MR. BINGL: Region I this is Millstone 5 Station. Larry, you on the line?
6 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is Region I.
7 MR. BINGL: Larry, I have posed your 8 question on the MSI and are we able to reset it or are 9 we going to reset open MSIV's and such for cool down?
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right.
11 MR. BINGL: No, there's no plan on even 12 attempting a reset of MSI at this time.
13 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. And that's just 14 because -- I don't know if you know, but is that just 15 because you don't know what caused it to begin with?
16 MR. BINGL: Yes. Correct.
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
18 MR. BINGL: And there are some indications 19 that that MSI signal may still be present.
20 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
21 MR. BINGL: So we're -- there's going to 22 be no attempt to reset the MSI.
23 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. I understand.
24 Okay, Kevin. Thank you.
25 MR. BINGL: You're welcome.
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28 1 MR. DOERFLEIN: Millstone, this is NRC 2 Region I. Region I to Millstone. Hey, Kevin, this is 3 Larry.
4 MR. BINGL: Yes.
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: We're still interested in 6 the steam generator sample results. I guess you still 7 haven't gotten D?
8 MR. BINGL: Now I knew you were going to 9 ask, because I still see that I haven't gotten back to 10 you. I did ask again for an update about ten or 15 11 minutes. It's time to prompt that question again.
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. So you're still 13 pursuing that?
14 MR. BINGL: Yes. Let me get you an update 15 on that.
16 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. But there's a 17 follow on question.
18 MR. BINGL: Okay.
19 MR. DOERFLEIN: Because we've also heard 20 through one of the channels that the sample results 21 from A may not be that good. Now I'm not sure what 22 that means. But you might want to repursue, that 23 we're happy with the samples from the other three 24 generators.
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29 1 because I'm looking at the ERDS data. It looks like 2 your only feeding the D steam generator. Do you know 3 what the status is of the ADBs (phonetic) and are you 4 cooling down on all four generators or just the D?
5 MR. BINGL: I have to look into that, 6 Larry.
7 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
8 MR. BINGL: One question, through other 9 communication channels we have had word that the alpha 10 steam generator sample was --
11 MR. DOERFLEIN: Well, I heard the word 12 "suspect" for some reason. I don't know have anymore 13 details on that.
14 MR. BINGL: Right. So along with that, 15 I'll follow up on the samples.
16 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay, Kevin. Thank you.
17 MR. BINGL: Another question is involving 18 -- what was it again? Oh, yes. The delta steam 19 generator we say it appears that we're only feeding 20 the delta?
21 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right. Yes, I'm getting 22 off their ERDS data. And I'm just -- that's just a 23 curiosity question. I'm just trying to verify my ERDS 24 is telling me the right stuff.
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30 1 I'll get back to you.
2 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right. Thank you.
3 MR. BINGL: Region I, Millstone. Larry, 4 you there?
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes, this is Region I.
6 MR. BINGL: Larry, this is Kevin. Getting 7 back to you on that question on the alpha steam 8 generator sample.
9 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
10 MR. BINGL: I do have something on that.
11 As again, the original report was we sampled alpha, 12 bravo, charlie with less than minimum detectable 13 activity.
14 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right.
15 MR. BINGL: There is concern that we did 16 not get a representative sample of the alpha steam 17 generator. I'll have more details on that. Other 18 than that, there was concern that we didn't get a 19 representative sample. And, again, all I have as far 20 as there is an effort to resample all four steam 21 generators. I haven't heard back.
22 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Is that it?
23 MR. BINGL: Yes.
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31 1 with you on that other -- the delta steam generator 2 issue there. Have you seen anything else that 3 concerns you?
4 MR. DOERFLEIN: No. That's it right now.
5 MR. BINGL: Okay. I'll work on that one.
6 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Thank you.
7 MR. BINGL: You're welcome.
8 NRC Region I, this is the Millstone 9 Station. Larry, are you there?
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is NRC Region I.
11 MR. BINGL: Larry, on your concerns for 12 what we've seen on ERDS on the delta steam generator -
13 do you still have those indications?
14 MR. DOERFLEIN: Actually, yes we still 15 have the indication that only D is being fed, but 16 there looks like something else is going on right now 17 we don't understand. We got pressure dropping like a 18 rock and pressurizer level and charging flow going up.
19 I believe --
20 MR. BINGL: I was just listening in here 21 on the briefing here at the emergency operations 22 facility that the plant (Inaudible) has started their 23 controlled cool down.
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32 1 response, I believe, for that but I'll give you an 2 update on that in a little bit.
3 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
4 MR. BINGL: As far as what I'm seeing, I 5 haven't checked with anybody else (Inaudible) the 6 delta steam generator I'm seeing similar steam or feed 7 flows to three out of four steam generators.
8 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
9 MR. BINGL: Even four and steam flows 10 appear the same. Steam generator pressures --
11 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. There must be a 12 glitch in the data again, but you are feeding on four, 13 at least three out of the four?
14 MR. BINGL: Yes. I mean, it's very low 15 feed flow, though.
16 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
17 MR. BINGL: The scales I'm looking are 18 thousands of pounds mass per hour, so these are in the 19 range of approximately a 100, but it's consistent 20 between the four.
21 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. All right.
22 MR. BINGL: You need me to check on that?
23 MR. DOERFLEIN: No, no, no. That -- we'll 24 follow up that later. I just -- it's just nice to 25 know that the indication is not exactly right here.
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33 1 But okay. Thanks, Kevin.
2 MR. BINGL: You're welcome.
3 Region I this is Millstone Station.
4 MR. DOERFLEIN: NRC Region I.
5 MR. BINGL: Yes. Getting back to that 6 indication we're seeing on number four, the delta 7 steam generator. I am going to pursue a little more 8 because that was based on my own information 9 indication here.
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
11 MR. BINGL: I did find a steam where aux 12 feed shows much higher on the number four versus the 13 other three.
14 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right.
15 MR. BINGL: So I'm going to follow up with 16 that question why that is.
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. All right.
18 MR. BINGL: All right?
19 MR. DOERFLEIN: Thank you, Kevin.
20 Region I, Millstone Station. Larry here.
21 MR. BINGL: Hey, Larry. I have confirmed 22 that response you saw that's on RCS pressure was a 23 controlled depressurization of RCS in preparation for 24 initiating the cool down.
25 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. I understand.
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34 1 MR. BINGL: All right. And we're still 2 looking at that number four. Because I see it also, 3 we're feeding number four.
4 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
5 MR. BINGL: (Inaudible) hundred gallons a 6 minute while most going to the other ones are 25 7 gallons per minute.
8 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. And steam generator 9 samples are still in progress, I guess.
10 MR. BINGL: Still in progress and still 11 waiting, yes.
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Thank you.
13 MR. BINGL: Region I, Millstone Station.
14 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is Region I.
15 MR. BINGL: Yes, Larry. As far as the aux 16 feed indications for the delta steam generator?
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right.
18 MR. BINGL: Control room was using the 19 delta steam generator as the controlling steam 20 generator, meaning going from its atmospheric dump 21 valve and feeding it. That may be changing now that 22 the cool down is in progress.
23 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
24 MR. BINGL: But those indications were 25 consistent with the (Inaudible)
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35 1 MR. DOERFLEIN: So the indications are 2 probably 3 more accurate than not?
4 MR. BINGL: Yes.
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. We just noticed 6 something different on this delta steam generator. We 7 just saw the pressure go bottoming out or start 8 heading down. Is there a reason for that, do you 9 know?
10 MR. BINGL: Yes. They started the cool 11 down and we're really starting it on the delta, but I 12 believe they're shifting that now to probably steaming 13 more on the alpha steam generator.
14 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. All right. Thanks 15 a lot, Kevin.
16 MR. BINGL: We started to cool down delta 17 and it may be shifting towards alpha presently.
18 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Understand. Thank 19 you.
20 MR. BINGL: You're welcome.
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22 MR. DOERFLEIN: Region I.
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36 1 the phone if you want.
2 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right. Just ten 3 minutes? All right.
4 MR. BINGL: Yes. I'll be back on the line 5 before 1525.
6 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Understand you'll 7 be off line for 10 minutes.
8 MR. BINGL: What time do you have?
9 MR. DOERFLEIN: I have 1518 right now.
10 MR. BINGL: 1518? Okay. I have 1515.
11 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right.
12 MR. BINGL: All right. Going off line. Be 13 right back.
14 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
15 Region I.
16 MR. BINGL: Yes, R(egion I This is 17 Millstone. I'm back on the line.
18 MR. DOERFLEIN: I und,erstand. I'm sorry 19 I left my phone keyed as I was gone. I hope that 20 wasn't a problem.
21 MR. DOERFLEIN: Oh, no. Didn't even 22 notice. Thanks.
23 MR. BINGL: All right.
24 Region I, Millstone Station.
25 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is NRC Region I.
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37 1 MR. BINGL: Yes. Larry, Kevin. Just to 2 update on you why it's taking so long for those sample 3 results.
4 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
5 MR. BINGL: In order to get representative 6 samples the crew is going to realign to normal steam 7 generator blowdown along with sample flow path. And 8 it's the reestablishing blowdown that has been taking 9 a while.
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
11 MR. BINGL: I don't think it's 12 difficulties is with everything else going on that, we 13 need to reestablish blowdown, get the representative 14 samples, then we'll have those.
15 MR. DOERFLEIN: That's for the delta --
16 MR. BINGL: Yes, delta along with it. But 17 they're going to reestablish blowdown for all four 18 steam generators in order to get a representative 19 sample on all four.
20 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
21 MR. BINGL: Including the delta.
22 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right, Kevin. Is that 23 it?
24 MR. BINGL: Yes, that's it.
25 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right. Thank you.
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38 1 MR. BINGL: Hello?
2 MR. DOERFLEIN: Millstone, Region I.
3 MR. BINGL: Region I, this is Millstone.
4 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes. I'm doing a 5 communications check. I dropped off again. I'm having 6 problems here. Just checking.
7 MR. BINGL: Okay.
8 MR. DOERFLEIN: Thanks.
9 Millstone, this is Region I.
10 MR. BINGL: Region I, this is Millstone.
11 Go ahead.
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: Kevin, a couple of, I 13 guess, continuing questions. The last we heard was on 14 the MSI reset that there was -- it was almost 15 voluntary, that you know, you were still looking at it 16 just to understand it before you reset it and reopened 17 the MSIVs. Is that still true? Are you 18 troubleshooting that to figure what happened? I guess 19 that's a question. You don't have to answer, you 20 could find out.
21 MR. BINGL: Yes. I would have to find 22 that one out. But I think the first two parts is yes.
23 They did not want to reset it. And I'll follow up 24 with--
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39 1 couple of bridges here. On the other bridge they heard 2 that INC was troubleshooting it.
3 MR. BINGL: Okay.
4 MR. DOERFLEIN: And that kind of fell off.
5 The other question is steam generator 6 samples, any update on that? I know that we've talked 7 about the realigning blowdown and stuff.
8 MR. BINGL: Right.
9 MR. DOERFLEIN: But you haven't heard 10 anything back on that yet?
11 MR. BINGL: No, but it's probably about 12 time to push that button again. I know that was -- the 13 most recent briefing it's still on their list to still 14 winding up blowdown.
15 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
16 MR. BINGL: So I'll ask that. (Inaudible) 17 troubleshooting the MSI?
18 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
19 MR. BINGL: Want to get an update if 20 that's still happening.
21 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
22 MR. BINGL: Okay. If it's update on 23 blowdown samples?
24 MR. DOERFLEIN: Right. Okay.
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40 1 they're preparing a draft termination message, but 2 nowhere near close to coming out. Thought I'd keep 3 you the loop on that.
4 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. All right. Thank 5 you.
6 MR. BINGL: Okay.
7 MR. DOERFLEIN: Talk to you later.
8 MR. BINGL: Region I, this is Millstone 9 Station.
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is Region 1.
11 MR. BINGL: Larry, this is Kevin. I have 12 two questions for troubleshooting MSI.
13 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
14 MR. BINGL: There may have been some 15 separation (Inaudible) troubleshoot for INC. There's 16 not active at this time.
17 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
18 MR. BINGL: Both of these issues have been 19 about as low priority just based on our own focus for 20 the cool down.
21 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
22 MR. BINGL: The update on the steam 23 generator samples, again, the blowdown restoration has 24 not been given low priority.
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41 1 again, Kevin.
2 MR. BINGL: Both issues are on the low 3 priority basis including the blowdown restoration for 4 representative samples. The priority items now is 5 continuing with the plant cool down.
6 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
7 MR. BINGL: I can't say that they're not 8 continuing to pursue that, but it's low priority.
9 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right.
10 MR. BINGL: Can you hear me okay?
11 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes. I don't know if it 12 you or John that told me to make sure I understood the 13 MSI. Is there some sort of indication that there's 14 still a signal there, do you know?
15 MR. BINGL: There may be.
16 MR. DOERFLEIN: Oh, okay. You don't know.
17 MR. BINGL: I don't know for sure other 18 than (Inaudible). There was some annunciator 19 indication that the MSI condition was still active 20 postscript when everything went -- was pretty much 21 back to mostly normal that that alarm should have --
22 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
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42 1 wanted to know. Okay. That helps. All right. Thank 2 you.
3 MR. BINGL: You're welcome.
4 Region I this is Millstone.
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: NRC Region I.
6 MR. BINGL: Okay. Were you trying to get 7 me?
8 MR. DOERFLEIN: No, I wasn't.
9 MR. BINGL: I thought I heard something.
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: Well, I heard, too. But 11 somehow I got some cross feedback from the other line 12 when I walked into the room.
13 MR. BINGL: Okay.
14 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Thanks.
15 MR. RIPLEY: This is headquarter's 16 operation officer.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: We're ready to process 18 (Inaudible).
19 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is to NRC Region 1 20 system ops center.
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. I've Bill Hoffner 22 again. I'm going to add him to the bridge if you want 23 to talk to him.
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43 1 link.
2 MR. RIPLEY: Oh, okay.
3 MR. DOERFLEIN: Let me break in. They're 4 getting a brief from the (Inaudible) right now. Let 5 me see if they want to hear from Bill.
6 MR. DOERFLEIN: Headquarters ops center, 7 Region I. Duty Officer?
8 MR. GOTT: You trying to get a hold of 9 headquarter's operations manager?
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
11 MR. GOTT: Yes, sir.
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is Larry Dorf in 13 Region I instant response center. I was just told that 14 the emergency director for Millstone was trying to get 15 on the bridge. And we're ready to receive him on the 16 management link, the reactor safety counterpart link.
17 MR. GOTT: Okay. We'll go ahead and put 18 him up there then.
19 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. Thank you.
20 MR. GOTT: Yes, sir.
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: Region I, Millstone 22 Station.
23 MR. TRAP: Yes. Is somebody on this line?
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44 1 stepped out for a minute.
2 MR. BINGL: All right. You're Region I 3 also?
4 MR. TRAP: Yes, I'm Region I. That's 5 correct.
6 MR. BINGL: I was just going to check.
7 I'm going to go off the headset for no more than ten 8 minutes.
9 MR. TRAP: Okay.
10 MR. BINGL: I'll let you know when I'm 11 back on.
12 MR. TRAP: Okay. It's dinnertime, huh?
13 MR. BINGL: Just biobreak time.
14 MR. TRAP: Very well. We'll see you in 15 ten minutes. Thank you.
16 MR. BINGL: Thank you.
17 Region 1, Millstone Station back on the 18 line. Region 1, Millstone Station, I'm back on the 19 line. Millstone Station, I'm back on the line. Are 20 you?
21 MR. TRAP: Yes. This is Jim Trap in the 22 NRC. I understand you're back.
23 MR. BINGL: That's correct, Jim.
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45 1 and B are running so C and D are secured and the PORV 2 valve condition is that the 'A' PORV valve is still 3 closed. So they have yet to continue in the 4 troubleshooting procedure to get to a point to close 5 'B' yet. MSI signal previously reported removed but 6 not reset.
7 MR. TRAP: This is Jim Trap, Region I. Is 8 anyone on the line?
9 MR. BINGL: Jim, this is Kevin Bingl, 10 Millstone Station.
11 MR. TRAP: Hi, Kevin. We had a battery 12 that ran out of juice and I dropped off for a minute 13 there.
14 MR. BINGL: And you're back on the line?
15 MR. TRAP: Yes, I'm back on the line.
16 Thank you.
17 MR. BINGL: Region I Millstone Station.
18 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes, this is Region I.
19 MR. BINGL: Hey, this is Jim or Larry?
20 MR. DOERFLEIN: This is Larry. Sorry.
21 MR. BINGL: Larry, this is Kevin.
22 When you sent the notification that there 23 was an NRC inspector due to arrive on station at 1900.
24 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
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2 MR. DOERFLEIN: Wait, and I'll be right 3 back with you.
4 MR. BINGL: I'll wait.
5 MR. DOERFLEIN: Millstone, Region I.
6 MR. BINGL: Go ahead. Millstone.
7 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes. Kevin, it's Peter 8 Habighorst.
9 MR. BINGL: Can we start again, H-A-B.
10 MR. DOERFLEIN: H-A-B-I-G-H-O-R-S-T.
11 MR. BINGL: H-O-R-S-T. Peter Habighorst?
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes. He used to be a 13 resident inspector up there, so he should --
14 MR. BINGL: I recognize the name.
15 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
16 MR. BINGL: Yes. Was he a Connecticut 17 Yankee also?
18 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes, he was.
19 MR. BINGL: Yes. That's where I remember 20 him from. Okay. Thanks, Larry.
21 MR. DOERFLEIN: Yes.
22 Millstone, this is Region I.
23 MR. BINGL: Yes, is this Larry.
24 MR. BINGL: Larry, at 1905 the station 25 emergency response organization is terminating and NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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2 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay. And you want to 3 know if you can secure the ENS line?
4 MR. BINGL: I believe that's my next step.
5 Hang on.
6 MR. DOERFLEIN: Okay.
7 MR. BINGL: Sure.
8 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right. Let me just 9 verify there's nothing else I need you for.
10 MR. BINGL: Absolutely. I'll stay on the 11 line.
12 MR. DOERFLEIN: All right.
13 Millstone, this is Region I.
14 MR. BINGL: Region I, this is Millstone.
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