View source for PNO-II-86-033, on 860508,Unit 2 Achieved Initial Criticality. All Parameters Near Anticipated Levels.Region II Based & Resident Inspectors Witnessed Event.Util Issuing News Release

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| issue date = 05/09/1986
| title = PNO-II-86-033:on 860508,Unit 2 Achieved Initial Criticality. All Parameters Near Anticipated Levels.Region II Based & Resident Inspectors Witnessed Event.Util Issuing News Release
| author name = Brownlee V, Burger C
| author affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION &amp; ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
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| document report number = PNO-II-86-033, PNO-II-86-33, NUDOCS 8605200110
| document type = PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR OCCURRENCE (PNO,, TEXT-INSPECTION &amp; AUDIT &amp; I&amp;E CIRCULARS
| page count = 1
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May 09, 1986 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE PNO-II-86-33 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The infonnation is at initially received without verifi-cation or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the Region II staff on this date.
FACILITY: Duke Power Company                            Licensee Emergency Classification:
Catawba Unit 2                                   Notification of Unusual Event Docket No. 50-414                                Alert Rock Hill, South Carolina                         Site Area Emergency General Emergency X Not Applicable

==SUBJECT:==
INITIAL CRITICALITY                                                               l Catawba Unit 2 achic'ved initial criticality at 5:01 p.m. (EDT) yesterday.
All parameters were near anticipated levels.
Both Region II-based and the resident inspectors witnessed the event.
Catawba Unit 1 is operating at 100 percent power.
Duke is issuing a news release.
The State of South Carolina has been informed.
This information is curren' as of 8 a.m. today.

==Contact:==
C. Burger, 242-4198                          V. L. Brownlee, 242-5583 DISTRIBUTION:
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