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Event Notification Report for January 7, 2004

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center

Event Reports For
01/06/2004 - 01/07/2004

** EVENT NUMBERS **

Power Reactor	Event Number: 40428
Facility: HATCH Region: 2 State: GA Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] GE-4,[2] GE-4 NRC Notified By: GREG JOHNSON HQ OPS Officer: JEFF ROTTON	Notification Date: 01/06/2004 Notification Time: 13:32 [ET] Event Date: 01/06/2004 Event Time: 12:58 [EST] Last Update Date: 01/06/2004
Emergency Class: UNUSUAL EVENT 10 CFR Section: 50.72(a) (1) (i) - EMERGENCY DECLARED 50.72(b)(2)(xi) - OFFSITE NOTIFICATION	Person (Organization): PAUL FREDRICKSON (R2) RICHARD WESSMAN (IRO) BOB DENNIG (NRR) DAN SULLIVAN (FEMA) MARIANNE DOYLE (DHS) ROBERT MANILI (NRC)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
1	N	Y	100	Power Operation	100	Power Operation

Event Text

UNUSUAL EVENT DECLARED DUE TO FIRE ON REFUEL FLOOR

Fire reported to control room at 1240 EST 01/06/04. Fire was located inside a portable "Kelly" building on the Refueling Floor which lasted greater than 10 minutes. An Unusual Event was declared at 1258 on 01/06/04. Fire was extinguished at 1302. Fire did not spread beyond the boundary of the Kelly building. The Kelly building was in a contaminated area, but there was no radioactive release outside of the Kelly building. Unusual Event was terminated at 1321.

Initial notification to NRC Headquarters of the Unusual Event was made by the NRC Senior Resident Inspector at 1254 EST. At 1303 EST 01/06/04 the decision was made not to enter the Monitoring Phase of Normal Mode of Incident Response for this event.

Licensee notified NRC Resident Inspector, State, and Local emergency management authorities.

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