ML061180133
| ML061180133 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Waterford  |
| Issue date: | 08/27/2005 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | |
| References | |
| EN-41954, FOIA/PA-2006-0169 | |
| Download: ML061180133 (3) | |
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bus Event Notification Report U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Operations Center Event Reports For EN No (41954)
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TOP Power Reactor Event Number: 41954 Facility: WATERFORD Notification Date: 08/27/2005 Region: 4 State: LA Notification Time: 23:22 [ET]
Unit: [3] [ ] [ ]
Event Date: 08/27/2005 RX Type: [3] CE Event Time: 22:04 [CDT]
NRC Notified By: KENNY CAMBREY Last Update Date: 09/08/2005 HQ OPS Officer: JE--FF ROTTON Emergency Class: UNUSUAL EVENT Person (Organization):
10 CFR Section:
WILLIAM JONES (R4 )
50.72(a) (1) (i) - EMERGENCY DECLARED PAO-TSIN KUO (NRR)
AKERS (DHS )
CASTO (FEMA)
SCRAM Current Unit Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode PWR Current RX Mode 3
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100 Power Operation 100 Power Operation Event Text UNUSUAL EVENT DECLARED DUE TO HURRICANE WARNING At 2204 CDT, an Unusual Event was declared due to a Hurricane warning in St Charles Parish, LA. The licensee does not have any Limiting Conditions for Operation on safety related equipment. No electrical grid disturbances currently exist.
The licensee will be notifying the NRC Resident Inspector. The licensee notified the State and Local government agencies.
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- UPDATE FRCM J. PIERCE TO M. RIPLEY 1144 EDT 08/28/05 ***
"Waterford 3 will commence a plant shutdown to Mode 4 on August 28, 2005 at 1100 CDT. The goal is to be approximately 32' deg F reactor coolant system temperature with both trains of Shutdown Cooling in service [expected at approximately 0100 CDT 08/29/05]. This is approximately 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> before hurricane force winds are expected on site."
Notified R4DO (Jones), NRR EO (Kuo), IRD Mgr. (Wilson), DHS (York), and FEMA (Canupp).
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- UPDATE FRCM J. PIERCE TO J. ROTTON 1131 EDT 08/29/05 * *
- As a result of Hurricane Katrina, all offsite power was lost at 0800 CDT. The emergency diesel generators successfy l7
started and loaded.
Notified R4DO (R. Bywater), NSIR (Leach, Wilson), NRR EO (Kuo, Jung), FEMA (Kuzia), DHS (Stransky).
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- UPDATE FROM LICENSEE (LEWIS) TO NRC (HUFFMAN) AT 2302 EDT ON 8/29/05 * *
- The Hurricane warning for St Charles Parish, LA, has been discontinued by the National Weather Service. Initiating condition, D UE-5, is no longer applicable. Waterford 3 remains in an Unusual Event for initiating condition C UE-1, loss of all offsite power. An agreement to relax 60 minute notification updates to State and local authorities remains in effect.
The licensee has notified State and local authorities as well as the NRC Resident Inspector.
Offsite power is available to the licensee switchyard. However, the voltage is too high for plant specification and the licensee remains disconnected from offsite power and on the emergency diesel generators.
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- UPDATE FROM LICENSEE (LEWIS) TO NRC (KNOKE) AT 0001 EDT ON 8/31/05 * *
- Waterford 3 remains in an Unusual Event for initiating condition C UE-1, loss of all offsite power. An agreement to relax 60 minute notification updates to State and local authorities remains in effect. The communications system for Public Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX) is working internally, but not externally. Other areas where communications are lost are Emergency Operations Facility (EOF), Operations hotline, Reactor Auxiliary Building (RAB), and the Emergency Notification System (ENS). Waterford has use of an industrial hotline to a circuit in the Parish of St Charles, however, this is very limited in its capability. The Civil Defense communication system is still inoperable.
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- UPDATE AT 1903 ON 9/6/05 FROM WAIG TO GOULD ***
NRC exited monitoring mode at 1800 CDT on 9/6/05.
Notified R4 IRC (Vlaig), R4DO (Powers), IRD (Leach), DHS (Cartlidge), FEMA (Kuzia).
- UPDATE FROM LICENSEE (LEWIS) TO NRC (KNOKE) AT 19:12 EDT ON 09/07/05 ***
At 17:57 CDT the licensee exited from the Unusual Event. Offsite power was restored and communications were reestablished with (1) a functional operational hotline, (2) a dedicated open line to NRC Headquarters Operations Center, and (3) having the plant PABX circuits routed through Little Rock, AK area code. The plant is holding in Mode 5 until further notice!, however, this may change when the decision to (or not to) repair a check valve in the Safety Injection system is made.
Notified R4DO (Posers), IRD (McGinty), NRR EO (Hackett), DHS (Sullivan), and FEMA (Kuzia).
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- UPDATE FRCM LICENSEE AT 08:45 EDT ON 09/08/05 * *
- This report has been updated to reflect the correct time of the licensee exiting their unusual event classification. Unusual event was exited Et 1740 CDT not 1757 CDT.
Notified R4DO (Powers), IRD (McGinty), NRR EO (Jung).
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