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The Vogtle nuclear power plant is located in Burke County, Georgia, near Augusta, Georgia. NRC headquarters in Bethesda, MD. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (or NRC) is a United States government agency that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act in 1974, and was first opened January 19, 1975. ...
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The twin cooling towers are 548 ft. tall/167 m.
Site Area Emergency
On 20-Mar-1990 at 9:20AM truck carrying fuel and lubricants in the plant low voltage switchyard backed into a support column for the feeder line supplying power to the Unit 1-A reserve auxiliary transformer (RAT). This set off a complicated chain of undesired events exacerbated by planned maintenance (in which some back-up systems were off-line) and equipment failures in some back-up systems. The resulting loss of electical power in the plant's "vital circuits" shut-down the residual heat removal (RHR) pump that was cooling Unit 1 (which was nearing the end of a refuling shut-down) and prevented the back-up RHR from activating. Even though Unit 1 was not operating at full-power, residual heat from the natural decay of the radioactive fuel needed to be removed to prevent a dangerous rise in core temperature. At 9:40AM the plant operators declared a site area emergency per existing proceedures which called for an SAE whenever "vital" power is lost for more than 15 minutes. At 9:56 a.m., plant operators performed a manual start of the A-side emergency diesel generator (EDG), which bypassed most of the EDG's protective trips that had prevented it from coming on-line. RHR-A was then started using power from EDG-A. With core cooling restored the site area emergency was downgraded to an alert at 10:15AM. The temperature of the Unit 1 core coolant increased from 90F to 136F during the 36 minutes required to reenergize the A-side bus. Ironically, throughout the event, non-vital power was continuously available to Unit 1 from offsite sources. However, the Vogtle electrical system was not designed to permit easy interconnection of the Unit 1 vital buses to non-vital power or to the Unit 2 electrical buses. (ref NRC Information Notice No. 90-25)
References - ^ Gertner, Jon, "Atomic Balm?", New York Times, July 16, 2006.
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