05000296/LER-1999-003, Forwards LER 99-003-00,providing Details Re Plant HPCI Sys Being Declared Inoperable Due to Loose Electrical Connection.Ltr Contains No Commitments

Forwards LER 99-003-00,providing Details Re Plant HPCI Sys Being Declared Inoperable Due to Loose Electrical Connection.Ltr Contains No Commitments

ML18039A777
Person / Time
Site:	Browns Ferry
Issue date:	05/06/1999
From:	Singer K TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
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ML18039A778	List: 05000296/LER-1999-003, Forwards LER 99-003-00,providing Details Re Plant HPCI Sys Being Declared Inoperable Due to Loose Electrical Connection.Ltr Contains No Commitments 05000296/LER-1999-003-01, :on 990408,declared Plant HPCI Sys Inoperable Due to Loose Wire.Caused by Failure to Properly Tighten Screw at Some Time in Past.Loose Wire Was Tightened
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LER-1999-003, Forwards LER 99-003-00,providing Details Re Plant HPCI Sys Being Declared Inoperable Due to Loose Electrical Connection.Ltr Contains No Commitments

Event date:
Report date:
Reporting criterion:	10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(v), Loss of Safety Function
2961999003R00 - NRC Website

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ACCESSION NBR:9905140176 DOC.DATE: 99/05/06 NOTARIZED: NO DOCKET' FACZL:50-296 Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Station, Unit 3, Tennessee 05000296 AUTH.NAME AUTHOR AFFILIATION SINGER,K.W.

, Tennessee Valley Authority RECIP NAME RECZPZENT AFFILIATION Records Management Branch (Document Control Desk)

SUBJECT:

Forwards LER 99-003-00,providing details re plant HPCI sys being declared inoperable due to loose electrical connection.Ltr contains no commitments.

DISTRIBDTION CODE:

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TITLE: 50.73/50.9 L'icensee Event Report (LER), Incident Rpt, etc.

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Tennessee Valley Authority, Post Office Box 2000, Decatur, Alabama 35609-2000 Karl W. Singer Vce Prudent, Browns Feny Nudear Rant May 6, 1999 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN:

Document Control Desk Washington, D.

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20555 10 CFR 50.73 Dear Sir; TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT (BFN)

UNIT 3 DOCKET NO. 50-296 FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE DPR-68 LICENSEE EVENT REPORT (LER) 50-296/1999003 The enclosed report provides details concerning the Unit 3 High Pressure Coolant Injection (HPCI)

System being declared i.noperable due to a loose electrical connection.

TVA is reporting this event pursuant to 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(v),

as a condition that alone could have prevented'he fulfillment of the safety function of a structure or system needed to mitigate the consequences of an accident.

There are no

commitments

contained in this letter.

Since ely, char Karl W. Sin cc:

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May 6, 1999 Enclosure cc (Enclosure):

Mr. Paul E. Fredrickson, Branch Chief U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region Xl 61 Forsyth Street, S.

W.

Suite 23T85

Atlanta, Georgia 30303 NRC Resident inspector Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant 10833 Shaw Road

Athens, Alabama 35611 Mr. Albert W.

De Agazi;o, Senior Project Manager U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission One White Flint, North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852

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