Event Notification Report for March 24, 1999
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center
Event Reports For
03/23/1999 - 03/24/1999
** EVENT NUMBERS **
35500 35501 35502
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|Power Reactor |Event Number: 35500 |
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| FACILITY: GRAND GULF REGION: 4 |NOTIFICATION DATE: 03/22/1999|
| UNIT: [1] [] [] STATE: MS |NOTIFICATION TIME: 19:16[EST]|
| RXTYPE: [1] GE-6 |EVENT DATE: 03/22/1999|
+------------------------------------------------+EVENT TIME: 18:00[CST]|
| NRC NOTIFIED BY: MARTY McADORY |LAST UPDATE DATE: 03/23/1999|
| HQ OPS OFFICER: DICK JOLLIFFE +-----------------------------+
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: N/A |CHARLES CAIN R4 |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|AARC 50.72(b)(1)(v) OTHER ASMT/COMM INOP | |
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|UNIT |SCRAM CODE|RX CRIT|INIT PWR| INIT RX MODE |CURR PWR| CURR RX MODE |
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|1 N Y 100 Power Operation |100 Power Operation |
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EVENT TEXT
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| - EMERGENCY OPERATIONS FACILITY INOPERABLE DUE TO TWO INOPERABLE AIR |
| COMPRESSORS - |
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| THE LICENSEE DECLARED BOTH AIR COMPRESSORS AT THE ENTERGY SERVICES CENTER |
| INOPERABLE WHEN THEY FAILED TO START DURING A TEST. THESE COMPRESSORS |
| SUPPLY AIR NECESSARY TO ISOLATE THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS FACILITY (EOF), |
| OPERATE THE HVAC SYSTEMS, AND START THE BACKUP GENERATOR. ONE UNIT HAS A |
| FAULTY COMPRESSOR AND THE OTHER HAS A FAULTY CIRCUIT BREAKER. |
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| THE LICENSEE PLANS TO SWAP CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND RESTORE ONE UNIT TO OPERABLE |
| STATUS. THE LICENSEE DECLARED THE EOF INOPERABLE. |
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| THE LICENSEE HAS NOTIFIED STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS, LICENSEE EMERGENCY |
| RESPONSE PERSONNEL, AND THE NRC RESIDENT INSPECTOR THAT THE EOF IS |
| INOPERABLE AND TO RESPOND TO THE BACKUP EOF LOCATED AT THE BAXTER WILSON |
| POWER STATION IN VICKSBURG, MS, APPROXIMATELY 30 MILES FROM THE SITE, IF THE |
| EOF IS REQUIRED TO BE STAFFED. |
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| * * * UPDATE AT 1721 ON 03/23/99 BY ERNEST MATHES TO JOLLIFFE * * * |
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| AT 1620 CDT ON 03/23/99, THE LICENSEE REPAIRED BOTH EOF AIR COMPRESSORS, |
| DECLARED THEM OPERABLE, AND DECLARED THE EOF OPERABLE. |
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| THE LICENSEE INFORMED THE NRC RESIDENT INSPECTOR. |
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| THE NRC OPERATIONS OFFICER NOTIFIED THE R4DO CHUCK CAIN. |
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|General Information or Other |Event Number: 35501 |
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| REP ORG: FLORIDA BUREAU OF RADIATION CONTROL |NOTIFICATION DATE: 03/23/1999|
|LICENSEE: J & M TESTING, INC |NOTIFICATION TIME: 13:01[EST]|
| CITY: CHIPLEY REGION: 2 |EVENT DATE: 03/10/1999|
| COUNTY: STATE: FL |EVENT TIME: 14:15[EST]|
|LICENSE#: 1763-1 AGREEMENT: Y |LAST UPDATE DATE: 03/23/1999|
| DOCKET: |+----------------------------+
| |PERSON ORGANIZATION |
| |MARK LESSER R2 |
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| NRC NOTIFIED BY: CHARLES ADAMS | |
| HQ OPS OFFICER: DICK JOLLIFFE | |
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: N/A | |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|NAGR AGREEMENT STATE | |
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EVENT TEXT
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| - AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - TWO LOST PORTABLE NUCLEAR SOIL MOISTURE DENSITY |
| GAUGES - |
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| At 1415 on 03/10/99, during a Florida state inspection of J & M Testing, |
| Inc., two portable nuclear soil moisture density gauges were determined to |
| be missing. These are old gauges that were not being used and were last |
| seen during an inventory taken on 12/28/98. The Chipley, FL police |
| department has been notified. |
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| Specifications of the gauges are as follows: |
| 1. Manufacturer: CPN, Model: BRC (1977); Serial No C7304NE147; Isotopes: 8 |
| mCi Cs-137; 50 mCi Am-241/Be |
| 2. Manufacturer: CPN, Model: BRC (1974); Serial No C7404NE50; Isotopes: 8 |
| mCi Cs-137; 50 mCi Am-241/Be |
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| Charles Adams, FL Bureau of Radiation Control, notified NRC Region 2 (FL |
| Radiological Incident No FL99-07). |
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|Power Reactor |Event Number: 35502 |
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| FACILITY: POINT BEACH REGION: 3 |NOTIFICATION DATE: 03/23/1999|
| UNIT: [] [2] [] STATE: WI |NOTIFICATION TIME: 16:48[EST]|
| RXTYPE: [1] W-2-LP,[2] W-2-LP |EVENT DATE: 03/23/1999|
+------------------------------------------------+EVENT TIME: 15:07[CST]|
| NRC NOTIFIED BY: RICK ROBBINS |LAST UPDATE DATE: 03/23/1999|
| HQ OPS OFFICER: DICK JOLLIFFE +-----------------------------+
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: N/A |PATRICK HILAND R3 |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|AOUT 50.72(b)(1)(ii)(B) OUTSIDE DESIGN BASIS | |
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|UNIT |SCRAM CODE|RX CRIT|INIT PWR| INIT RX MODE |CURR PWR| CURR RX MODE |
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|2 N Y 100 Power Operation |100 Power Operation |
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EVENT TEXT
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| - S/G PRESSURE TRANSMITTER CABLE NOT WRAPPED WITH FIRE WRAP IN A FIRE ZONE |
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| AT 1507 CDT ON 03/23/99, DURING A 10CFR50, APPENDIX R REBASELINE REVIEW, THE |
| LICENSEE DISCOVERED THAT CABLE #ZP2I483F FOR RED CHANNEL STEAM GENERATOR 'B' |
| PRESSURE TRANSMITTER #2PT-00483 ROUTED THROUGH A FIRE ZONE IS NOT PROPERLY |
| WRAPPED WITH FIRE WRAP. THUS, THE RED CHANNEL STEAM GENERATOR 'B' PRESSURE |
| TRANSMITTER WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE, AS EXPECTED, DURING A FIRE IN THIS |
| ZONE. |
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| A FOUR HOUR ROVING FIRE WATCH ALREADY EXISTS FOR THIS FIRE ZONE FOR OTHER |
| REASONS AND WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL THIS PROBLEM IS CORRECTED. |
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| THIS PROBLEM IS APPLICABLE TO UNIT 2 ONLY AND HAS NO EFFECT ON UNIT 1. |
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| THE LICENSEE INFORMED THE NRC RESIDENT INSPECTOR. |
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