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ENS 432795 April 2007 11:38:00

At 1023 Central Daylight Time the licensee declared an Alert due to a transformer fire in the non-safety related PN08 transformer phase 'A.' There were no visible flames seen by onsite licensee personnel but an area of the transformer was glowing with a smokey haze in the area. The fire brigade responded. The plant was already in a shut down condition entered on 4/1/07 for a refueling outage. Decay heat was being removed using Residual Heat Removal the train 'B.' The licensee declared the alert based on a potential impact to the operating Residual Heat Removal train. The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector.

* * * UPDATE AT 1215 ON 4/5/07 FROM LICENSEE COMMUNICATOR TO SNYDER * * * 

The licensee exited the Alert condition at 1215 Eastern Daylight Time based on their assessment that no impact to operating safety related RHR equipment occurred and any impact would have been conservative in that flow to the core would not have been interrupted. The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector.