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Volume 32, Issue 297
July 21, 2010
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Nuclear plant unit could be down for extenBy Patrick SweetStaff
Writer
Flooding forced operatorPPL to shut down Unit 1 of the
Susquehanna NuclearPower Plant near Berwick
lateFriday afternoon.An estimated 1 milliongallons of
SusquehannaRiver water flowed from an8-feet diameter pipeheadingto
the condenser room wheresteam leaving the tur-bine is cooled and
dam-aged equipment in the base-ment of the plants
turbinebuilding.
As a result, the plant couldbeshutdownfora long period.
We dont have an esti-mate, PPL spokesman JoeScopelliti said.
There is notimeline.
Patrick Finney, the plantsseniorNRC inspector, doesntthink
theplant will be onlineanytimesoon, though.
I think they have a longroad ahead of them,Finney
said Tuesday afternoon. At
this point their focus is get-ting the water out of theaffected
rooms and intotanks.
The utility is investigatingwhether a door allowingworkers
access to the con-denser room is the source,Scopelliti said. We
believethats where theleakwas.
Finney said they are also
investigating whether a gas-ketwas out-of-place.The jury is
still out,
Finney said. There is onemanwaythat is still tricklingwater.
When the plant workersdiscovered the leak, theywere forced to
cutoff waterto thepipe manuallybecause
computerizedsystems failed,Finney said. Having to turnthe water
off manually,though, doesnt represent asafety issue. The plant,
hesaid, was designed to havethemanualoption.
While itwasinconvenientto closethose valves,Finneysaid, they
still had the abili-tyto doit.
The plant was forced tobring in extra workersto dry,repair and
test equipmentandis sampling thewaterforradiological and
industrialmaterial as its removedandstored in tanks.
If it meets all the dis-chargelimits,Scopelliti said
of thewater, itllbe returnedbackto the river.Given the location
of the
leak, Finney said, any con-taminants in the water willlikely be
industrial, such as
grease and oil from movingmechanicalparts.
Before theplant is startedback up, PPLwillinspecttheleak
andareaaffected bythewater.
To makeup for the loss of
generation, PPL will eitherpurchase additional powerfrom the
grid or produce ititself at another plant.Susquehanna Unit 2 is
stillfullyfunctioning.
[email protected], 570-821-2117MARK MORAN / THE CITIZENS
VOICE
PPL shut down one of the Susquehanna NuclearPower Plants two
reactors Friday after river waterleaked into the basement of a
building housingthe reactors turbine and damaged equipment.
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