ML093080612

Email from D. Decker to U. Shoop, Potential Release of Tritium at Oyster Creek in Morning Event Report

ML093080612
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	04/16/2009
From:	David Decker Office of Congressional Affairs
To:	Undine Shoop NRC/EDO
References
FOIA/PA-2009-0214
Download: ML093080612 (2)

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Jaegers, Cathy

," From: Decker, David Sent: / Thursday, April 1.6, 2009 10:29 AM To: Shoop, Undine

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FW: Potential release of tritium at Oyster Creek in morning event report Importance: High Undine, Do you know if there is any more information on the potential tritium release at Oyster Creek. Thanks. -David From: Amy Powell Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:45 AM To: David Decker Cc: Eugene Dacus; Spiros Droggitis; Rebecca Schmidt

Subject:

Potential release of tritium at Oyster Creek in morning event report Importance: High David -

With Gene on travel, would you please get more info on this event report from Oyster Creek and then notify the Oyster Creek "delegation" about it this morning? The State was notified, so we need to loop the Hill staffers in.

Power Reactor Event Number: 44993 Facility: OYSTER CREEK Notification Date: 04/15/2009 Region: 1 State: NJ Notification Time: 20:19 [ET]

Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] Event Date: 04/15/2009 RX Type: [1] GE-2 Event Time: 16:44 [EDT]

JNRC Notified By: GEORGE VOISHNIS Last Update Date: 04/15/2009 HQ OPS Officer: JOHN KNOKE Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY Person (Organization):

10 CFR Section: ART BURRITT (R1) 50.72(b)(2)(xi) - OFFSITE NOTIFICATION SCRAM Current Unit Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode PWR Current RX Mode 1 N Y 100 Power Operation 100 Power Operation Event Text OFFSITE NOTIFICATION DUE TO POTENTIAL RELEASE OF TRITIUM "Oyster Creek notified the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection of a potential release due to the discovery of detectable levels of Tritium in a cable vault that was found while replacing the cable to an [Emergency Service Water] ESW pump. No release is known to be occurring and no release is known to have occurred. The source of the Tritium water is not currently known. A prompt investigation is in progress."

Thanks, Amy Amy Powell Associate Director U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1

Office of Congressional Affairs Phone: 301-415-1673 2