ML19350B250
| ML19350B250 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Beaver Valley |
| Issue date: | 03/02/1981 |
| From: | Grier B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Woolever E DUQUESNE LIGHT CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8103200173 | |
| Download: ML19350B250 (1) | |
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c,1 l v Gentlemen:
The enclosed IE Circular No. 81-03, " Inoperable Seismic Monitoring Information" is forwarded to you information.
No written response is required.
If you desire additional information regarding this matter, please contact this office.
Sincerely, CE Boyce H. Grier Director
Enclosures:
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IE Circular No. 81-03 2.
List of Recently Issued IE Circulars CONTACT:
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8005220271 IEC 81-03 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COM. MISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTICN AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 March 2, 1931 IE Circular No. 81-03: INOPERABLE SEISMIC MONITORING INSTRUMENTATION Description of Circumstances:
On November 8, 1980, an earthquake occurred off the coast near Eureka, California.
The earthquake was reported to have a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter Scale at the epicenter, approximately 25 to 75 miles from the Humboldt Bay Power Plant facility. There were 12 separate seismic events above a magnitude of 3.5 + hat occurred within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> of the earthquake, the larcest event measuring 5.2.
Reported damage to structures included several houses that were moved off supporting posts, various chimneys that were knocked down, one high:a/ cverpass that collapsed, and unspecified damage that occurred at two pulp mills. There were three potentially different sources of plant response data: three sets of magnetic tape triaxial accelograph recorders; three sets of triaxial film recorders (passive device); and one set of triaxial response spectrum recorcers (passive device). A review of the records from these instruments indicated the following: the magnetic tape triaxial recorders did not produce useful records due to a degraded low-voltage power supply in the recording system (previously scheduled for routine servicing one wetk after the earthquake);
a buildup of dirt and dust appeared to make inoperable six of the nine film recorders (the readings from the other three are considered highly unreliable and were not obtained from the same set of triaxial reccrders); the triaxial response spectrum recorder was the only instrument believed to produce reliable data.
On January 24, 1980, an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale occurred about 10 miles north of Lawrence Livermore. Laboratory (near San Francisco, California). Numerous aftershocks also occurred with one measuring 5.2 on January 26. The damage to civii structures was considered minor.
Rancho Seco Nuclear Plant, located approximately 45 miles northeast of the earth-quake area, reported no physical damage, althougn plant personnel felt slight building motion.
Rancho Seco was shutdown for refueling during these earthquakes. During this period, the electrical seismic. instrumentation system was inoperable because portions of the system were out for calibration.
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