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Responds to Re Seismic Instruments in Use During 790417 Earthquake.Recorders Were Set to Trigger for Vertical Acceleration of 0.01 G or More & Did Not Trigger During Earthquake
ML19247A943
Person / Time
Site: Maine Yankee
Issue date: 07/05/1979
From: Harold Denton
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Roth M
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
References
NUDOCS 7908030589
Download: ML19247A943 (1)


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Dear Mr. Roth:

11, 1979 about the seismic instrur.ents This is in reply to your letter of Juneat the Maine Yankee Atomic Powe 1979.

The following infomation was reported to the NRC staff c'uring telephone conversations with !!aine Yank.ee personnel on April 18 and 19,1979:

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18, 1979, On April Due to corrosion of contacts, it was detemined checked.

that control room annunciation would not have occurred if Furthemore, the upper either recorder had triggered.

i recorder my not have operated during the earthquake for the Proper operation of the icwer recorder was same reason.

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