Event Notification Report for October 11, 2007

TONE ALERT RADIO SYSTEM OUT OF SERVICE FOR MAINTENANCE

"The tone alert radio system for Nine Mile point was taken out of service for planned maintenance. Per Site Emergency Planning procedures this constitutes a partial loss of the Public Prompt Notification System (Loss of Communication) and thus is reportable under 10 CFR 50.72 (3)(b)(xiii).

"The tone alert radio system is installed in Oswego County residences and businesses who can not hear the siren system when activated. The tone alert radio system notifies Oswego County resident of emergency situations. The tone alert radio system is maintained and operated by the National Weather Service (NWS).

"NWS estimates that the system will be out of service for approximately 6 hours. The county alert sirens, which also function as part of the public prompt Notification System, are operable."

The licensee notified the State and local governments. The licensee will notify the NRC Resident Inspector.


* * * RETRACTION ON 10/11/07 AT 1510 EDT FROM BRIAN FINCH TO JOHN MACKINNON * * *

"The Oswego County Emergency Management Office was notified on 10/11/07 at approximately 1150 by the National Weather Service, NWS (Binghamton, NY) that the Tone Alert System is in service and fully functional. The NWS informed Oswego County that the time the Tone Alert System was out of service from 10/10/07 at 2350 until 10/11/07 at 0013 for a total of 23 minutes. The 23 minutes is less than the one hour criteria for a 10CFR50.72 notification. As such, the initial notification is retracted." R1DO (W. Cook) notified.

The NRC Resident Inspector was notified of this retraction by the licensee. State and Local Officials have also been notified of this retraction by the licensee.

TONE ALERT SYSTEM OOS FOR PLANNED MAINTENANCE

"The Tone Alert Radio System for the James A. Fitzpatrick (JAF) Nuclear Power Plant was taken out of service for planned maintenance. This constitutes a partial loss of the public Prompt Notification System (Loss of Communication) and thus is reportable under 10CFR50.72(b)(3)(xiii). The county alert sirens, which also function as part of the public Prompt Notification System, are operable, compensatory measures are in place to notify the affected county residents."

The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector.


* * * RETRACTION ON 10/11/07 AT 1552 EDT FROM TIM PAGE TO JOHN MACKINNON * * *


"At 0748 on 10/11/07, the James A. Fitzpatrick (JAF) Nuclear Power Plant reported that the Tone Alert Radio System had been taken out of service for planned maintenance. JAF reported this as a partial loss of the public Prompt Notification System (Loss of Communication) under 10CFR50.72(b)(3)(xiii).

"Subsequent review of information received from the National Weather Service (NWS) which maintains the system, and review of information contained in NUREG-1022, has determined that the period of time the Tone Alert Radio System was out of service is not reportable under 10CFR50.72(b)(3)(xiii).

"The following updated information is provided:

"The Tone Alert Radio System was out of service for planned maintenance from 10/10/07 at 2350 hours to 10/11/07 at 0013 hours (total elapsed time of 23 minutes).

"Compensatory measures were in place during this time period to notify the affected county residents."

R1DO (William Cook) notified.


NRC Resident Inspector, State and Local Officials were notified of this event retraction by the licensee.

STEAM LEAK PAST A SAFETY RELATED O-RING

"[This event occurred at] 10-11-07 at 0540 hrs in the X-342 - Feed Facility, Autoclave #1, approximately 40 minutes into the heating cycle (mode II) on a refeed cylinder. An operator encountered an audible steam leak past the Viton 'O' ring at the 12 o'clock position. The steam was secured and autoclave shell opened. Inspection of the Viton 'O' ring resulted in the discovery of a separation of the splice joint. A pressure decay was performed to determine if the O- ring would have performed its 'Q' function. The test failed resulting in a 24 hour event."

The licensee has contacted the Regional NRC inspector for this facility.

POSITIVE FITNESS FOR DUTY TEST

A non-licensed employee supervisor had a confirmed positive for illegal drugs during a random fitness-for-duty test. The employee's access to the plant has been terminated. Contact the Headquarters Operations Officer for additional details.

LOSS OF ERDADS/SPDS DISPLAY

"On 10/11/2007 at 2147, the ERDADS SPDS displays for Unit 1 were discovered out of service, rendering the majority of process parameters and trends unreadable from the display screens in the control room, TSC, and EOF. This information was also not available to the NRC via the ERDS. However, the process parameters and alarm capabilities are available to operating personnel via redundant control room and plant instrumentation. Information regarding main steam line radiation monitoring, meteorological data, and information provided by the Qualified Safety Parameter Display System (QSPDS) (i.e. RCS sub cooling, reactor vessel level, and core exit temperature) is available on the ERDADS terminals and is also available to the NRC via the ERDS. The ERDS Link to the NRC from both Unit 1 and Unit 2 remains functional. Troubleshooting by the site maintenance and engineering personnel is ongoing. This Non-Emergency Notification is being made pursuant to 10CFR50.72(b)(3)(xiii) regarding loss of emergency assessment capability."

The licensee will notify the NRC Resident Inspector.

MISSING N-63 FOIL SOURCE DETECTORS

Back in 1992 licensee had four detectors stored at their facility in Evansville, IN. These 4 detectors had Ni-63 foil sources with activity of 15 milliCuries each. The model/serial number of these detector are 18803-60520/C2141; 18803-60520/C0844; 18713A/83047; and 19312/S11091. About September 2007 the licensee went to retrieve these electron capture detectors, however, they could not find them. The licensee contacted Hewlett Packard (HP) and asked if they had the missing detectors. HP said they did not. After several weeks of searching , the Licensee believed that the missing detectors are a result of inventory accountability, rather than an actual theft.

THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury. Some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks.