Perry Alert - iodine alarm and bubble from spent fuel pool

PERRY - 04/24/2003

ALERT AT PERRY DUE TO EVENT IN FUEL HANDLING BUILDING

"At 11:00 the control room received a High alarm on the FHB Gas and Alert on FHB Iodine. ONI ZZZ-7 was entered along with ONI J11-2 and ONI D17. Fuel movement was stopped after all fuel was placed in a safe condition. The FHB, Drywell, and Containment were evacuated and the Containment and FHB closure plans were carried out. At 11:30 the control room received a report that the fuel bundle being inspected in the FHB had a bubble float to the top of the pool. At 11:27 the alarms in the FHB reset. The entry into an Alert was recognized at 11:50 and initial notifications were completed. The Technical Support center has been staffed to develop a recovery plan."

The NRC Resident Inspector was notified.

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|Power Reactor                                    |Event Number:   39792       |
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| FACILITY: PERRY                    REGION:  3  |NOTIFICATION DATE: 04/24/2003|
|    UNIT:  [1] [] []                 STATE:  OH |NOTIFICATION TIME: 12:07[EDT]|
|   RXTYPE: [1] GE-6                             |EVENT DATE:        04/24/2003|
+------------------------------------------------+EVENT TIME:        11:00[EDT]|
| NRC NOTIFIED BY:  JOHN SHIPMAN                 |LAST UPDATE DATE:  04/24/2003|
|  HQ OPS OFFICER:  RICH LAURA                   +-----------------------------+
+------------------------------------------------+PERSON          ORGANIZATION |
|EMERGENCY CLASS:          ALERT                 |MONTE PHILLIPS       R3      |
|10 CFR SECTION:                                 |MICHELE EVANS        IRO     |
|AAEC 50.72(a) (1) (i)    EMERGENCY DECLARED     |TERRY REIS           NRR     |
|                                                |JIM CALDWELL         R3      |
|                                                |DENVER                       |
|                                                |JANIE EVERETTE       DOE     |
+-----+----------+-------+--------+-----------------+--------+-----------------+
|UNIT |SCRAM CODE|RX CRIT|INIT PWR|   INIT RX MODE  |CURR PWR|  CURR RX MODE   |
+-----+----------+-------+--------+-----------------+--------+-----------------+
|1     N          N       0        Refueling        |0        Refueling        |
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