ML19309G270
| ML19309G270 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/30/1979 |
| From: | Gingrich J METROPOLITAN EDISON CO. |
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Juanita Gingrich 0500 Hrs. March 30, 1979 Conducted By:
R. Long and D. Reppert LONG:
This is Bob Long, Don Reppert and I are interviewing Juanita Gingrich.
It's about 0508 hrs. on the 30th of March, 1979. We'll ask Juanita to identify herself and state her position.
GINGRICH:
My name's Juanita Gingrich and I'm an auxiliary operator in Unit 2.
LONG:
And, Juanita, you were on shift at the time of the... ?
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GINGRICH:
Yes.
LONG:
Could you just describe for us roughly what you were doing, say, beginning an hour before the event and kind of go into where you were?
GINGRICH: About an hour before, they had me down adding hydrogen to the generator.
As I guess you already know, it had been leaking and we had to fill it at least once a shift; so I was down there doing that. After I did that I went i,
up and I was going to the control room around 5 minutes of 4, I guess.
Then I heard the turbine trip.
I went in the control room and just stood around and waited to see what they needed people to do and they sent me down to the feedpumps. They had been having trouble with the turning gears.
So they sent me down; I was suppose to check the turning gears and see if they took over when they tripped off the line.
I went down and the "A" feed-pump and the "B" feedpump were down, the turning gear didn't seem to be working, so I called the control room and they they told me they were going to try to start them from up there to see if they could get the turning gear to take over.
The "A" started turning gear and the "B" didn't.
So they had me manually turning the turning gear - which is like I had to keep tuming it continuously -
that's where I was most of the time.
I had to turn it every two minutes a half a turn; in between I got a chance to go up and check the vacuum pumps.
I looked them over and checked their te=peratures and their oil and water levels and everything and they seemed to be going steady and nothing irregular on those.
I guess it was around 10 of 7, I heard an alam going off.
It was the atmo-spheric monitors that sit up by the vacuum pu=ps. I went over and saw they were ON.
Then, right after that they gave the announcement about radiation.
I was just there
'til I think about 8 o' clock turning the "B" pu=p, and that was about it.
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LONG:
Ok, you had one very specfic job?
GINGRICH: Yeah.
LONG:
And stayed vita it?
GINGRICH: I had to keep doing that to keep the shaft from warping.
LONG:
And then what happened when the site evacuation was given.
What did you do then?
GINGRICH: Well, I just stayed there cause I had thought I should, and then one of the other guys came by and told me just to keep doing that.
So I stayed down there, turning it till I got relieved, about 8 o' clock. Oh wait, that's right, one other guy came over and he was turning it for a while and then I went over to the seal oil coolers and the temperatures were real low on that.
So I just throttled down on the discharges of the coolers and I got temperatures to go up.
They were down in the 70's and they should be in the 100's and I got the tempera-tures to go up to about 98 the last time I got a chance to look at it.
Then I went back over to the feedpump, the rest of the time.
LONG:
Did you go home then when you went off shift?
GINGRICH: Yeah.
s LONG:
Shortly after 8?
GINGRICH: Yeah about 8 o' clock they came and relieved us and they sent us all over to the control room and then to Al?
central. Then they sent us up to Unit 1 control room, and then they let us leave. That was I guess around 10 o' clock.
LONG:
How about last night, were you on shift again last night?
GINGRICH: Yeah, I was on shift again last night but they had me out, I wasn't inside the plant last night, I was like a chauffer and gopher.
But I was taking things back and forth from the observation center here to the PC and taking people back and forth and so I didn't really get involved here.
LONG:
Ok.
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REPFERT:
When they got the alarm, in the...?
l GINGRICH: Well, the monitor's right in front of the C Vacuum pump.
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PEPPERI:
That didn't require an evacuation of the turbine b1dg.
GINGRICH: Yeah.
Shortly after that they gave the evacuation and you know I was getting ready to call the control room about it when they gave the evacuation.
REPPERI:
I see.
GINGRICH: And, then after that they told me I should stay down there.
LONG:
Have you been on shift when there had been a turbine /
reactor trip before?
GINGRICH: Yeah. We had lots of experience over there in Unit 2.
LONG:
At what point did you begin to feel as though this was not typical?
GINGRICH: Well, it wasn't until I heard that alarm going off over there that I realized something else was going wrong, because I didn't have any other indications.
LONG:
Who gave you your instructions, to stay?
GINGRICH: Let's see, they announced about evacuating and I stayed there a few minutes longer, then they called me over
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the page; but I couldn't go to the page so one of the operators that was doing other things around there, Donny Miller, came by and said that I should just stay down there and keep doing that.
LONG:
Who sent you to that particular task.
GINGRICH:
Oh, originally?
LONG:
Yeah, originally.
GINGRICH:
I think it was Ed Frederick. Yeah, I believe so.
LONG:
And then that was just one that had to be taken care of?
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GINGRICH: Yeah, that was one that you always have to do everytime the turbine trips, cause they never got it fixed yet.
LONG:
Ok, Don, do you have any other... ?
REPPERI:
No.
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