PNO-III-80-120, after Planned Shutdown on 800627,South Bend, in Tv News Reporter Inaccurately Reported Safety Injection W/Stuck Rod & Pump Failure at Facility
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| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Cook  |
| Issue date: | 06/30/1980 |
| From: | Masse R, Streeter J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| PNO-III-80-120, NUDOCS 8010090267 | |
| Download: ML17326A755 (2) | |
e: June 30, 1980 PR'!."'
t>ARY NOT I F I CAT I Otl OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCUREN CE--PNO-! I 1 120 safet or ublic interest si nificance.
The information resented is as ll initiall received without verification or evaluation and ss basica 1
a that is known b
IE staff as of this date.
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American Electric Power Service Corporation Indiana and Michigan Power Company D.
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Cook Unit 2 (DN 50-316)
Bridgman, MI This reliminar notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE
~snb ect:
POSSIBLE INACCURATE MEDIA COVERAGE CONCERNING REACTOR SHUTDOWN The unit was shutdown at about 2300 hours0.0266 days <br />0.639 hours <br />0.0038 weeks <br />8.7515e-4 months <br /> on June 27, 1980 for a planned outage to perform modifications to the auxiliary feedwater system.
Following a manual reactor trip, the position indicator for control rod D-3 indicated the rod had not scrammed.
Emergency procedures for a stuck rod were initiated.
Within 30 minutes it was determined that the problem was a position indication problem instead of a stuck control rod.
At 0044 hours5.092593e-4 days <br />0.0122 hours <br />7.275132e-5 weeks <br />1.6742e-5 months <br /> on June 28, 1980, during cooldown and depressurization, an automatic safety injection occurred app'arently due to a failure to manually bypass the low reactor coolant system pressure signal.
The ECCS equipment. functioned properly.
The injection was manually terminated after 3 minutes and the cooldown continued.
'I A South Bend, Indiana TV"news reporter learned of the event and contacted the Head-quarters Duty Officer.
He was referred to the RIII Duty Officer who then discussed the safety injection portion of the event with him.,
The licensee reported that the TV station subsequently carried a report of a s'afety injection with a stuck rod and a
pump failure to the facility.
This-PN is issued because-of-the-potent'ial for broader media-coverage.
The State of'Michigan is being informed.
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Contact:
R. E. Masse 616/465-3727; J. Streeter -'12/932=2543 Distribotion:
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