View source for PNO-III-97-067, on 970813,Point Beach Unit 2 Reactor Restarted & on 970816,unit Began Generating Electricity at Ending ten-mouth Outage,Began on 961005.Licensee Issued News Release on Plant Restart.State of Wi Will Be Notified

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| title = PNO-III-97-067:on 970813,Point Beach Unit 2 Reactor Restarted & on 970816,unit Began Generating Electricity at Ending ten-mouth Outage,Began on 961005.Licensee Issued News Release on Plant Restart.State of Wi Will Be Notified
| author name = Mccormickbarge, Mcmurtray A
| author affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION &amp; ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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| docket = 05000301
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| document report number = PNO-III-97-067, PNO-III-97-67, NUDOCS 9708200127
| document type = PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR OCCURRENCE (PNO,, TEXT-INSPECTION &amp; AUDIT &amp; I&amp;E CIRCULARS
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{{#Wiki_filter:ls . .'                                              August 19, 1997 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE PNO III-97 067 This prelimi.iary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information is as initially received without verification or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by Region 111 staff (Lisle Illinois) on this date.
Facility                                         Licensee Emergency Classification l
l Wisconsin Electric Power Co.                       Notification of Unusual Event Point Beach 2                                      Alert                                !
i Two Rivers. Wisconsin                              Site Area Emergency Dockets: 50-301                                    General Emergency X Not Applicable

==Subject:==
UNIT 2 RESTART i
On August 13. 1997, the Point Beach Unit 2 reactor was restarted and on                {
August 16. 1997, the unit began generating electricity at 10:18 p.m.                   j (CDT) ending a ten-month outage which began on October 5. 1996.
During the outage, major projects and improvement initiatives were completed. These included re condenser steam dump valves,         placingextensive performing   the unit's repairs steam on generators  and the service water and component cooling water pumps, and refueling the reactor. The licensee also completed reviews of many plant systems, programs and procedures to address a number of NRC and licensee identified performance issues.
NRC Region 111 (Chicago) staff and resident inspectors provided 24-hour inspection coverage during the restart process. Currently. NRC staff has continued its 24-hour expanded ins)ection coverage to include monitoring of the plantes control room and ot1er major plant restart activities.
The licensee issued a news release on the plant's restart. There has been local news media interest.                                                              '
The State of Wisconsin will be notified.
The information in this preliminary notification has been reviewed with licensee management. This information is current as of 11 a.m. (CDT) on August 19. 1997.

==Contact:==
J. MCCORMICK-BARGER    ANTHONY MCMURTRAY (630)829-9872           (920)755 2309 970020o127 97o819 M-I!$97-o67PDR                                                                    3 M\  4 o p n c. n r hh}}

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