PNO-II-85-043, on 850425,most Control Room Annunciators Lost Due to Failure of Inverter Power Supply.Possibly Caused by Blown Fuse.One Feedwater Pump Restored to Operation

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PNO-II-85-043:on 850425,most Control Room Annunciators Lost Due to Failure of Inverter Power Supply.Possibly Caused by Blown Fuse.One Feedwater Pump Restored to Operation
ML20133E295
Person / Time
Site: Oconee Duke Energy icon.png
Issue date: 04/25/1985
From: Brownlee V, Dance H
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
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References
PNO-II-85-043, PNO-II-85-43, NUDOCS 8507220455
Download: ML20133E295 (3)


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April 25,1985-PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE PNO-II-85-43 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest sigr.ificance. The information is as initially received without veriff-cation or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the Region II staff on this dat:.

FACILITY: Duke Power Company Licensee Emergency Classification:

Oconee Unit 1 Notification of Unusual Event Docket No. 50-269 X Alert Seneca, South Carolina Site Area Emergency General Emergency Not Applicable

SUBJECT:

LOSS OF ANNUNCIATORS AND REACTOR TRIP Duke Power Company declared an alert at 5:12 a.m. (EST) today -- in accordance with the Oconee emergency plan -- after most control room annunciators were lost because of the failure of an inverter power supply. The cause of the power supply loss at present is unknown. The inverter, which was being supplied by battery, normally automatically switches to the AC power line source, but did not in this instance, possibly because of a blown fuse in the switching circuit.

When the power supply was manually transferred to the AC line, oscillations developed in the integrated control system, which was attempting to adjust various components to the requirements of the plant's operation at 100 percent power. These oscillations resulted in the tripping of one main feedwater pump, which initiated an automatic turbine runback.

During the runback, the other main feedwater pump also tripped, which caused the reactor to trip at 5:33 a.m. One feedwater pump was restored to operation at 6:02 a.m. The alert designation ended at 6:33 a.m. The unit is now stable and in hot shutdown. Region II is monitoring the licensee's evaluation of the event.

Duke issued a news announcement at 6:54 a.m. today. Both Duke and the NRC are responding to inquiries.

Oconee Unit 2 is operating at 76 percent power, and Unit 3 is at 100 percent power.

l The State of South Carolina has been informed.

l Duke informed the NRC headquarters incident response center of this incident at 5:30 a.m. l today. This information is current as of 10:30 a.m. l

Contact:

H. C. Dance, 242-5533 V. Brownlee, 242-5583 ,

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