ML052270093
| ML052270093 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 04/17/2005 |
| From: | NRC Region 1 |
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| 41607, FOIA/PA-2005-0207 | |
| Download: ML052270093 (24) | |
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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 HO03, Tape 1, Side A, 9:30-11:32 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Information in this record was deleted 22 Inaccordance with the Freedom of Infounation Act, exemptions , I 23 FO1A- A- O 24 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE.. N.W.
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15 1 MR. PARTICIPANT: USNRC's recording line.
2 May I help you?
3 MR. FEENEY: Yes, sir, my name's Andrew 4 Feeney. I'm with New York State Emergency Management.
5 We got notification of an alert at 6 Millstone this morning. Did you get that?
7 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, Who are you with?
8 MR. FEENEY: I am with New York State 9 Emergency Management Office. My name is Andrew 10 Feeney.
11 MR. PARTICIPANT: Um-hum.
12 MR. FEENEY: I'm Lead Manager in the REP 13 (phonetic) program. I need to find out who it is or 14 whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is going to 15 put up a conference bridge or anything like that to 16 share information with the states.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Sir, yes, we do.
18 We have an ongoing bridge right now.
19 MR. FEENEY: Okay. Can I have the number 20 for that please?
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: No, I'll be able to 22 transfer there. Let me talk to my management just a 23 little bit.
24 MR. FEENEY: Yes.
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1 me.
2 MR. FEENEY: Yes.
3 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.
4 MR. FEENEY: Yes.
5 MR. PARTICIPANT: Let me have your name 6 again.
7 MR. FEENEY: Andrew Feeney.
8 MR. PARTICIPANT: It's Andrew?
9 MR. FEENEY: F-E-E-N-E-Y.
10 MR. PARTICIPANT: Andrew Feeney from the 11 New York State Emergency Management. Right?
12 MR. FEENEY: Correct.
13 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Hold on a second 14 just for me. Okay?
15 Okay. Sir.
16 MR. FEENEY: Yes.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: I'm going to transfer
.18 you to a conference bridge and then I'm going to 19 transfer an individual from our group to talk to you.
20 So, initially, you may be mute for a little bit, but 21 just hang in there for us. Okay?
22 MR. FEENEY: Okay. Hey, Billy, can you 23 come here please?
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: Is that okay?
25 MR. FEENEY: Yes.
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17 1 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. I'm going to 2 transfer there and then soon after, I'm going to put 3 an NRC person to -- in contact with there. Okay?
4 MR. FEENEY: Yes.
5 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Hold on, sir.
6 MR. FEENEY: You got to get copies of 7 those. They got to get out to the agencies, but just 8 -- if Bill can assist you with that, you stay on the 9 phone, Tat (phonetic).
10 RECORDING: Transferring.
11 (Whereupon, the telephone conversation was 12 completed.)
13 MR. PARTICIPANT: USNRC's recorded line.
14 May I help you?
15 MR. RYAN (phonetic): NRC, this is 16 Millstone Station.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes.
18 MR. RYAN: -- master communications. My 19 name is John Ryan.
20 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, sir.
21 MR. RYAN: I am trying to establish 22 communications to relieve the Station Duty Officer.
23 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Were you 24 previously the ENS bridge?
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18 1 bridge. Our ENS bridge -- this is my first contact _
2 with the NRC.
3 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. So, you're -- and 4 who do -- you wanted to talk with specifically?
5 MR. RYAN: I just want to get placed on 6 the bridge so that we can maintain constant 7 communication.
8 MR. PARTICIPANT: Understand. Okay. Hold 9 on just a second. Hold on a second. Okay?
10 MR. RYAN: I understand hold.
11 MR. PARTICIPANT: Steve, I have another 12 licensee that wants to get. Could you -- we would ask 13 -- okay, sir. I'm going to transfer you to our ENS 14 bridge. Okay?
15 MR. RYAN: I understand. If -- if it 16 would be better, I can call from the ENS line.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: No, this is fine.
18 You're comfortable where you are with this phone?
19 MR. RYAN: Yes, I am.
20 MR. PARTICIPANT: Now, this is fine with 21 us. Okay? I'm going to transfer you to that bridge.
22 MR. RYAN: I understand you're going to 23 transfer me to the ENS bridge.
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: Correct.
25 RECORDING: Transferring.
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7 MR. PARTICIPANT: Homeland Security 8 Operations Center. This is not a secure line. May I 9 help you?
10 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, sir. I would like 11 to talk to the Senior Watch Officer.
12 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, may I ask who's 13 calling?
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, this is the Nuclear 15 Regulatory Commission Ops Center.
16 MR. PARTICIPANT: Hold on please.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Thank you.
18 MS. DOYLE: Marianne (phonetic) Doyle.
19 MR. PARTICIPANT: Hello.
20 MS. DOYLE: Hello.
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, are you the Senior 22 Watch Officer?
23 MS. DOYLE: Yes.
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: This is the Nuclear 25 Regulatory Commission.
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21 1 MS. DOYLE: Um-hum.
2 MR. PARTICIPANT: I'm just calling you to 3 notify you of an alert of one of our plants that we 4 received today.
5 MS. DOYLE: Okay. Okay.
6 MR. PARTICIPANT: And the name of the 7 plant of Millstone.
8 MS. DOYLE: Okay.
9 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. We received 10 notification at 0923 and they declared the alert at 11 0842 this morning.
12 MS. DOYLE: Okay.
13 MR. PARTICIPANT: And what happened there 14 is that they had one of their valves on their 15 secondary system that opened unexpectedly.
16 MS. DOYLE: Um-hum.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: And then -- but, now, 18 they're reclosed and the system -- and they're trying 19 to stabilize the system. The unit -- the reactor 20 tripped on low pressure and they're in the process of 21 recovering from a safety injection.
22 At the moment, we don't think that there 23 is -- they don't think there is any security breach.
24 They're following up and they're trying to verify on 25 that.
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22 1 MS. DOYLE: What do you mean by security 2 breach?
3 MR. PARTICIPANT: Well, because, you know, 4 if -- if those valves lifted and -- unexpectedly. So, 5 someone is looking into it. So, since we know that 6 you'd be concerned about that question, we're trying 7 to give you a heads up that at the -- at this moment 8 they don't think that it is a security problem.
9 MS. DOYLE: They just think it's a 10 malfunction?
11 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, it could have been.
12 Yes, they're in the process of looking into it. So, 13 the plant is shut down and they're trying to --
14 they're stabilizing it right now. So, but there's no 15 other major issue right now.
16 MS. DOYLE: Is this a big deal or is this 17 a fairly small --
18 MR. PARTICIPANT: Well, alert -- alert is 19 -- is a -- is -- our level of declaration go from a --
20 from an unusual event and the next one would be an 21 alert. So, it is important. They're looking into it, =
22 but like I said, the -- the valves reseated back and 23 so, they're all closed again and the plant is stable.
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23 1 anything is leaking at the plant or radiation is 2 coming out. No.
3 MS. DOYLE: Okay. =
4 MR. PARTICIPANT: There's no release of 5 radioactivity.
6 MS. DOYLE: All right. And Millstone is 7 where? Is that Virginia?
8 MR. PARTICIPANT: No, Millstone is in --
9 is in Connecticut.
10 MS. DOYLE: I knew it sounded familiar.
11 Millstone. What town in Connecticut?
12 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Give a second.
13 You had to ask that. Didn't you?
14 MS. DOYLE: Well, I got to log it. So.
15 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Let me find out 16 for you. Just a second here. Okay. Millstone --
17 Millstone is close to New London.
18 MS. DOYLE: By New London?
19 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes. Connecticut.
20 MS. DOYLE: And it's -- the Millstone 21 Nuclear Plant. Is that the full name?
22 MR. PARTICIPANT: And that -- and that was 23 Unit 3. Millstone Unit 3.
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24 1 reactor and the licensee is Dominion Nuclear.
2 MS. DOYLE: Dominion. Okay. Are you 3 going to call us back when everything's clear?
4 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, we're going to --
5 we're going to call you back with an update and 6 telling you -- if things change from here, obviously, 7 we'll call you again.
8 MS. DOYLE: Okay.
9 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay?
10 MS. DOYLE: All right. Thank you.
11 MR. PARTICIPANT: Well, let me -- what was 12 your name again?
13 MS. DOYLE: Marianne Doyle.
14 MR. PARTICIPANT: Marianne.
15 MS. DOYLE: Doyle D-O-Y-L-E.
16 MR. PARTICIPANT: D-O-Y-L-E?
17 MS. DOYLE: Correct.
18 MR. PARTICIPANT: All right. Marianne, 19 thanks a lot.
20 MS. DOYLE: Thank you. Bye-bye.
21 MR. PARTICIPANT: Bye-bye.
22 (Whereupon, the telephone conversation was 23 completed.)
24 MR. PARTICIPANT: I'm in the middle of a 25 call.
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25 1 RECORDING: You have reached the United 2 States Department of Energy Operations Center. Your 3 call is being transferred to a DOE Watch Officer.
4 MR. SMITH: U.S. Department of Energy.
5 Mike. Can I help you?
6 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, sir, this is the 7 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. I'm 8 calling you to notify you of an alert at one of our 9 plants. Hello? Hello?
10 MR. SMITH: Yes, sir, which -- at which 11 plant?
12 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. This is the 13 Millstone 3 plant.
14 MR. SMITH: Millstone, standby.
15 MR. PARTICIPANT: That's it.
16 MR. SMITH: Okay. Millstone.
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Millstone Unit 3.
18 MR. SMITH: Okay.
19 MR. PARTICIPANT: They notified at 0923 20 this morning and then they declared an alert at the 21 site at 0842.
22 MR. SMITH: Okay.
23 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. And the reason 24 for that is that they had one of their main steam 25 safety valves lifted on the secondary system that NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE.. N.W.
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26 1 opened unexpectedly.
2 Now, they are now reclosed and the system 3 is being stabilized right now, the plant, and 4 obviously, the plant tripped. So, the reactor tripped 5 in low pressure and they're in the process of 6 recovering from a safety injection.
7 Now, the -- our Agency entered what we 8 call a monitoring mode at 0948.
9 MR. SMITH: Are you going to send us 10 something on this?
11 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes, we are. So, we're 12 in the process now of writing it up and we'll send it 13 to you and we'll also keep you up to date if the 14 status changed from what we just told you.
15 MR. SMITH: Okay. Was there any type of 16 leak? Anything, sir?
17 MR. PARTICIPANT: No, you mean radioactive 18 leak? No. No, it was basically steam on the 19 secondary side of the plant.
20 MR. SMITH: Okay. Your name again please?
21 MR. COSTA: My name is Arlon C-O-S-T-A and 22 I need to have your name.
23 MR. SMITH: This is Mike Smith.
24 MR. COSTA: Could you spell you last name, 25 Mike?
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27 1 MR. SMITH: Smith S-M-I-T-H.
2 MR. COSTA: S-M-I-T-H. Oh, it's Smith.
3 Okay.
4 MR. SMITH: And is there a number where 5 you can be contacted?
6 MR. COSTA: Oh, our number here is 301-7 816-5100.
8 MR. SMITH: Okay, sir. Thank you.
9 MR. COSTA: I'll call you back. Bye-bye.
10 (Whereupon, the telephone conversation was 11 completed.)
12 MR. BISCOE: FEMA's Operations Center.
13 Kevin.
14 MR. COSTA: Yes, Kevin, this is the United 15 States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
16 MR. BISCOE: Okay.
17 MR. COSTA: And we'd like to notify you of 18 a -- an alert of one of our plants.
19 You called a little bit earlier.
20 MR. BISCOE: Um-hum.
21 MR. COSTA: Someone from your office. So, 22 let me give you the information.
23 MR. BISCOE: Okay. What's your name?
24 MR. COSTA: My name is Arlon Costa C-O-S-25 T-A. Before I forget, let me have your name, too.
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28 1 MR. BISCOE: Kevin Biscoe. You say Allen?
2 MR. COSTA: Arlon A-R-L-O-N. How do you 3 spell your last name, Kevin?
4 MR. BISCOE: B-I-S-C-O-E.
5 MR. COSTA: B-I-S-T-O-E.
6 MR. BISCOE: B-I-S-C-O-E.
7 MR. COSTA: Oh, B-I-S-C-O-E.
8 MR. BISCOE: Um-hum.
9 MR. COSTA: Okay. All right. Kevin, this 10 was Millstone 3 and they're in Connecticut.
11 MR. BISCOE: Okay.
12 MR. COSTA: Okay. And emergency 13 declaration was an alert and they declared that at 14 0842. They notified us at 0923 and our Agency went 15 into what we call our monitoring mode at 0948 and 16 here's the --
17 MR. BISCOE: Went into the monitoring mode 18 at what time?
19 MR. COSTA: 0948. And here's just a quick 20 summary for you.
21 MR. BISCOE: Okay.
22 MR. COSTA: So, that was because of one of 23 our -- one of their -- their safety valves on their 24 secondary side of the plant opened up unexpectedly.
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29 1 actually earlier, those valves closed back up and the 2 plant is, of course, shut down. The reactor tripped 3 and plant is in the process of being stable right now.
4 They're recovering from what we call a safety 5 injection.
6 And in case anybody asks, the plant has 7 their -- we're almost sure that this has nothing to do 8 with any security breach or anything like that, but 9 they're verifying that also in case someone asks you.
10 MR. BISCOE: Okay. All right. It was the 11 safety valve on secondary side of plant opened.
12 MR. COSTA: Unexpectedly. Important to 13 write that there and -- and that now, which is a 14 little while ago, they were reclosed and the system is 15 stabilizing.
16 MR. BISCOE: Okay. And it's now 17 stabilizing?
18 MR. COSTA: Right and the plan obviously 19 tripped and the reactor tripped on low pressure.
20 Anything else?
21 MR. BISCOE: No.
22 MR. COSTA: No security breaches. We'll 23 -- we'll call you back if there's -- it suppose to get 24 stable from now on and they may terminate the alert 25 and the emergency and we'll call you back and notify NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE.. N.W.
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30 1 you either way. Okay?
2 MR. BISCOE: Okay. You take care.
3 MR. COSTA: You, too. Thank you.
4 MR. BISCOE: Bye-bye.
5 MR. COSTA: Um-hum.
6 (Whereupon, the telephone conversation was 7 completed.)
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6 8 MR. COSTA: Okay. I called -- I'm talking 9 to the USDA.
10 MR. MAGNERS: USDA Operations Center. May _
11 I help you?
12 MR. COSTA: Yes, this is the United States 13 Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
14 MR. MAGNERS:--Yes. -
15 MR. COSTA: I would like to make an event 16 notification to your -- to the USDA or your officer 17 there. Watch Officer.
18 MR. MAGNERS: Yes, I'm the Watch Officer.
19 MR. COSTA: Okay. May I have your name?
20 MR. MAGNERS: Richard Magners.
21 MR. COSTA: Richard. Could you spell that 22 for me, Richard?
23 MR. MAGNERS: M-A-G-N-E-R-S.
24 MR. COSTA: Okay. My name is Arlon Costa =
25 C-O-S-T-A.
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32 1 MR. MAGNERS: C-O-S-C-A?
2 MR. COSTA: T-A. T as in Tom.
3 MR. MAGNERS: Oh, C-O-S-T-A. Okay.
4 MR. COSTA: Right. And this is in 5 reference to our Millstone 3 in Connecticut.
6 MR. MAGNERS: Okay.
7 MR. COSTA: They called us early today at 8 0923 to notify of an alert at their site and they 9 declared an alert at 0842.
10 MR. MAGNERS: Okay.
11 MR. COSTA: Okay. And our Agency went 12 into what we call our monitoring mode at 0948.
13 MR. MAGNERS: Okay.
14 MR. COSTA: And let me give you just a 15 quick briefing there on what happened.
16 One of their -- several of their safety 17 valves lifted on their secondary side of the plant.
18 They opened unexpectedly.
19 Now, they are reclosed. Actually, it was 20 a little while ago and the system is being --
21 stabilizing right now and because of this valve 22 lifting, the plant tripped. The reactor tripped on 23 low pressure and as part of the recovery from safety 24 injection, they're in that -- in that process right 25 now.
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33 1 MR. MAGNERS: Okay.
2 MR. COSTA: All right.
3 MR. MAGNERS: So, several -- several of 4 their safety valves open unexpectedly.
5 MR. COSTA: Right.
6 MR. MAGNERS: They're -- they're now 7 reclosed and the system is stabilizing.
8 MR. COSTA: Right.
9 MR. MAGNERS: When they opened, the 10 reactor tripped on low pressure.
11 MR. COSTA: Correct.
12 MR. MAGNERS: Okay. Any other details?
13 MR. COSTA: Well, we're in the process now 14 of writing the report, but it's -- basically what you 15 have there is a big picture for this alert 16 declaration.
17 MR. MAGNERS: Okay.
18 MR. COSTA: And we will notify you if it 19 goes up or if -- if they come out of the alert.
20 Either way, we'll stay in contact with you. Okay.
21 So, you expect a call from us.
22 MR. MAGNERS: And what's a contact number 23 for you?
24 MR. COSTA: It's 301 --
25 MR. MAGNERS: Um-hum.
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34 1 MR. COSTA: -- 816 --
2 MR. MAGNERS: 816.
3 MR. COSTA: -- 5100.
4 MR. MAGNERS: Okay. And you're the 5 Nuclear Regulatory --
6 MR. COSTA: Right. United States Nuclear 7 Regulatory Commission.
8 MR. MAGNERS: -- Commission. Yes. All 9 right.
10 MR. COSTA: Richard, your last name is M-11 A-R-G-N-E-R-S?
12 MR. MAGNERS: No, it's M-A-G --
13 MR. COSTA: M-A-G. No R. Okay.
14 MR. MAGNERS: -- N-E-R-S is the last name.
15 MR. COSTA: Magners. Wonderful. Thank 16 you, Richard, and you have a good day.
17 MR. MAGNERS: Thank you. You, too. Bye-18 bye.
19 MR. COSTA: Bye.
20 (Whereupon, the telephone conversation was 21 completed.)
22 MR. TURNER (phonetic): Good morning.
23 This is the CDC Emergency Operations Center. This 24 call is being recorded. Watch Officer Rick Turner 25 speaking. How can I help you?
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35 1 MR. COSTA: Yes, this is the Nuclear 2 Regulatory Commission and I have notification for you 3 and I'm -- I'm suppose to ask for your response 4 coordinator --
5 MR. TURNER: Okay.
6 MR. COSTA: -- or duty officer. Either 7 one of them or whoever can take this report.
8 MR. TURNER: Okay, and what is your name 9 please?
10 MR. COSTA: My name is A-R-L-O-N Costa C-11 O-S-T-A.
12 MR. TURNER: Okay. Let me transfer you to 13 our duty officer. Okay?
14 MR. COSTA: Thank you.
15 MR. HOGAN: Arlon?
16 MR. COSTA: Yes.
17 MR. HOGAN: Yes, this is Duty Officer Al 18 Hogan down here at the CDC Emergency Operations 19 Center. How can I help you?
20 MR. COSTA: All right. Al. You spell 21 your name H-O-G-A-N?
22 MR. HOGAN: That's correct.
23 MR. COSTA: Wow. I got that right. Huh?
24 Okay. Well, this morning at 0923 --
25 MR. HOGAN: Um-hum.
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36 1 MR. COSTA: -- the -- one of our 2 facilities, Millstone 3 in Connecticut called us with 3 an event declaration.
4 MR. HOGAN: Okay.
5 MR. COSTA: And the level was an alert at 6 0842.
7 MR. HOGAN: Um-hum.
8 MR. COSTA: And then our Agency went into 9 what we call a monitoring mode --
10 MR. HOGAN: Okay.
11 MR. COSTA: -- at 0948 and let me give you 12 a quick summary of what happened and obviously, if 13 these things change, we'll call you back --
14 MR. HOGAN: All right.
15 MR. COSTA: -- with an update.
16 MR. HOGAN: Okay.
17 MR. COSTA: So, basically what happened 18 was that one of several main steam safety valves --
19 safety release valves in the secondary system opened 20 unexpectedly --
21 MR. HOGAN: I imagine that woke them up.
22 MR. COSTA: -- and because of that 23 obviously, the plant trips and they tripped on low 24 pressure, but --
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2 MR. COSTA: That was an automatic reactor 3 trip. So, right now, the reactor is tripped and the 4 plant is being stabilized right now because it goes 5 through a transient, but there were no other incidents 6 that increased -- changed that. So, they're in the 7 process of stabilizing the plant.
8 MR. HOGAN: Okay. So, this was the main 9 steam safety relief valve on the secondary system?
10 MR. COSTA: Right.
11 MR. HOGAN: Okay.
12 MR. COSTA: That opened unexpectedly.
13 MR. HOGAN: All right. Okay.
14 MR. COSTA: And because of that, they have 15 to declare this alert.
16 MR. HOGAN: Certainly.
17 MR. COSTA: Okay. And -- and --
18 MR. HOGAN: That's right.
19 MR. COSTA: -- obviously, the plant 20 tripped like I said.
21 MR. HOGAN: Right.
22 MR. COSTA: They're -- they're recovering 23 with their -- on their safety injection.
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38 1 us here, we'll call you again today and hopefully, 2 this will terminate soon.
3 MR. HOGAN: That would be good.
4 MR. COSTA: Okay.
5 MR. HOGAN: All right. Thank you very 6 much.
7 MR. COSTA: You have a good day, Al.
8 MR. HOGAN: Well, I appreciate it.
9 MR. COSTA: Bye-bye.
10 MR. HOGAN: Bye.
11 (Whereupon, the telephone conversation was 12 completed.)
13 MR. PARTICIPANT: USNRC's recorded line.
14 May I help you?
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