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Nuclear plant unit could be down for extended time
By Patrick Sweet
Staff Writer
Flooding forced operator
PPL to shut down Unit 1 of
the Susquehanna Nuclear
Power Plant near Berwick
late Friday afternoon.
An estimated 1 million
gallons of Susquehanna
River water flowed from an
8-feet diameter pipe heading
to the condenser room —
where steam leaving the tur-
bine is cooled — and dam-
aged equipment in the base-
ment of the plant’s turbine
building.
As a result, the plant could
be shut down for a long period.
“We don’t have an esti-
mate,” PPL spokesman Joe
Scopelliti said. “There is no
timeline.”
Patrick Finney, the plant’s
senior NRC inspector, doesn’t
think the plant will be online
any time soon, though.
“I think they have a long
road ahead of them,” Finney
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PPL shut down one of the Susquehanna Nuclear
Power Plant’s two reactors Friday after river water
leaked into the basement of a building housing
the reactor’s turbine and damaged equipment.
said Tuesday afternoon. “At
this point their focus is get-
ting the water out of the
affected rooms and into
tanks.”
The utility is investigating
whether a door allowing
workers access to the con-
denser room is the source,
Scopelliti said. “We believe
that’s where the leak was.”
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Finney said they are also
investigating whether a gas-
ket was out-of-place.
“The jury is still out,”
Finney said. “There is one
manway that is still trickling
water.”
When the plant workers
discovered the leak, they
were forced to cutoff water
to the pipe manually because
computerized systems failed,
Finney said. Having to turn
the water off manually,
though, doesn’t represent a
safety issue. The plant, he
said, was designed to have
the manual option.
“While it was inconvenient
to close those valves,” Finney
said, “they still had the abili-
ty to do it.”
The plant was forced to
bring in extra workers to dry,
repair and test equipment
and is sampling the water for
radiological and industrial
material as it’s removed and
stored in tanks.
“If it meets all the dis-
charge limits,” Scopelliti said
of the water, “it’ll be returned
back to the river.”
Given the location of the
leak, Finney said, any con-
taminants in the water will
likely be industrial, such as
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Before the plant is started
back up, PPL will inspect the
leak and area affected by the
water.
To make up for the loss of
generation, PPL will either
purchase additional power
from the grid or produce it
itself at another plant.
Susquehanna Unit 2 is still
fully functioning.
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