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Volume 32, Issue 319
August 12, 2010
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By Patrick SweetStaff Writer
SALEM TWP. — Workersat the SusquehannaNuclearPower Plant successfullystopped a Freon leak thattriggered an “alert” statusTuesday.
At 11: 35 p.m. Tuesday,plant operator PPL put anendto themorethan14-hour-long “alert”status. Thechill-ing unit — a glorified airconditioner for the reactorbuilding and its equipment — leaked the Freon andforced a partial evacuationof Unit 1.
As part of an “alert,”municipal, county and stateagenciessuchas theLuzerneCountyEmergency Manage-ment Agency are put onnotice that they might needto respond.
“While public safety wasnot at risk during this situ-ation,” PPL spokeswoman
Miriam Mylin said in anews release, “entering theemergency management
plan ensured we had theresources avai lable i f needed to help protect
employees and support thes a f e o p e ra t i on o f t h eplant.”
An “alert” — the second-lowest of four emergencyclassifications — means theleak was an “actual orpotential” risk to plant safe-
ty but included very littleorno radioactive material,according to the NuclearRegulatory Commission’sWebsite.
No radioactive materialwas involved but the areawhere the leak was locatedcontains “plant safety sys-tems.”
The Freon was safelyremoved from the reactor
building, PPL said, andplaced in on-site storagetanks.
E x po s u re t o l a rg eamounts of Freon over ashort period of time canhave negativehealth effects,according to the U.S. Envi-
ronmentalProtectionAgen-cy.PPL said no employees
reported any injuries.A back-up chilling system
allowed Unit 1 to remainoperating at full power dur-ingthe leak.
Unit 2 was not affected bytheevent.
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