PERRY - UNUSUAL EVENT PROMPTED BY OHIO EARTHQUAKE (3.4 ON RICHTER SCALE)

PERRY - NOTIFICATION DATE: 06/30/2003

UNUSUAL EVENT DECLARED DUE TO SEISMIC EVENT IN THE AREA

At 1541 EDT on 6/30/03, Perry Nuclear Plant declared an Unusual Event due to a seismic event. No immediate issues were noticed. The operating-basis earthquake/safe-shutdown annunciator did not alarm, however the plant did receive a seismic panel alarm. The set point for the alarm is 0.005g. There were no unplanned radioactive releases. No protective action recommendations are advised by the licensee. State and local counties (Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula) have been informed.

The National Earthquake Information Center has preliminary indications that the earthquake measured 3.4 on the Richter scale at 41.7 N latitude and 81.2 W longitude near Painesville, OH.

The licensee has notified the NRC Resident Inspector

* * * UPDATE AT 2242 ON 06/30/03 CARMAN TO GOTT * * *

Licensee terminated from unusual event. Action needed to terminate from the unusual event was a plant walk down. The licensee completed same with no plant damage identified, no unplanned radiological release, and no planned corrective actions.

The licensee notified the NRC Resident and Senior Resident Inspectors.

Notified NRR EO (Ruland), DIRO Manager (McGinty), DHS (Murray), FEMA (Stiendurf), and R3DO (Clayton)

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|Power Reactor                                    |Event Number:   39966       |
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| FACILITY: PERRY                    REGION:  3  |NOTIFICATION DATE: 06/30/2003|
|    UNIT:  [1] [] []                 STATE:  OH |NOTIFICATION TIME: 15:54[EDT]|
|   RXTYPE: [1] GE-6                             |EVENT DATE:        06/30/2003|
+------------------------------------------------+EVENT TIME:        15:41[EDT]|
| NRC NOTIFIED BY:  DAVE BLOUNT                  |LAST UPDATE DATE:  06/30/2003|
|  HQ OPS OFFICER:  HOWIE CROUCH                 +-----------------------------+
+------------------------------------------------+PERSON          ORGANIZATION |
|EMERGENCY CLASS:          NON EMERGENCY         |BRENT CLAYTON        R3      |
|10 CFR SECTION:                                 |TIM MCGINTY          IRO     |
|AAEC 50.72(a) (1) (i)    EMERGENCY DECLARED     |BOB DENNIG           NRR     |
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+-----+----------+-------+--------+-----------------+--------+-----------------+
|UNIT |SCRAM CODE|RX CRIT|INIT PWR|   INIT RX MODE  |CURR PWR|  CURR RX MODE   |
+-----+----------+-------+--------+-----------------+--------+-----------------+
|1     N          Y       100      Power Operation  |100      Power Operation  |
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