Press Release-IV-02-011, NRC Monitored Events at Waterford 3
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| Site: | Waterford  |
| Issue date: | 03/23/2002 |
| From: | Office of Public Affairs Region IV |
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| Press Release-IV-02-011 | |
| Download: ML020980565 (1) | |
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs, Region IV 611 Ryan Plaza Drive - Suite 400 Arlington TX 76011-8064 No. IV-02-011 March 23, 2002 CONTACT:
Breck Henderson E-mail: opa4@nrc.gov Phone: 817-860-8128 Cellular: 817-917-1227 NRC MONITORED EVENTS AT WATERFORD 3 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV, is monitoring events surrounding an Alert declared at the Waterford 3 nuclear power plant near Taft, La. The Region IV Incident Response Center in Arlington, Texas, was staffed today at 11:15 a.m.
Entergy Operations Inc., which operates the Waterford 3 plant, was shutting down the reactor for a planned refueling outage when valves required to initiate the shutdown cooling system failed to operate properly. At 10:20 a.m. today plant operators declared an Alert condition in accordance with procedures. Alert is the second emergency action level in the four-level, NRC-required emergency response plan for nuclear reactors.
The shutdown cooling system valves were successfully opened and the Alert condition was terminated at 11:50 a.m. Normal plant cooldown was resumed at about 1:30 p.m. and the NRC closed its Incident Response Center.