Thread: Ammonia leak at San Onofre CA. nuke generating station

Ammonia leak at San Onofre nuke generating station

The Associated Press
Posted: 11/01/2011 04:09:17 PM PDT
Updated: 11/01/2011 04:09:17 PM PDT

SAN ONOFRE, Calif.—Authorities say there is an ammonia leak at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and the emergency operations center at the plant has been activated.
SoCal Edison spokesman Steve Conroy tells KCAL-TV that employees identified the leak at about 3 p.m. in the non-nuclear area of the plant. He says there is no danger to the public and no injuries have been reported.

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Ammonia leak sparks alert at San Onofre

City News Service

An ammonia leak in the steam system used to drive the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s turbines prompted an alert at the plant Tuesday, but Southern California Edison officials insisted there was no threat to the public.

The alert was declared at about 3 p.m. when the leak was detected, according to SCE, the majority owner of the plant.

“As a precaution, the company evacuated employees in the area near where the leak was found,â€

Emergency alert called off at San Onofre nuclear plant

November 1, 2011 | 7:09pm

This post was corrected. See the note below

Officials ended an emergency alert at the San Onofre nuclear power plant after containing an ammonia leak that prompted the warning, a spokeswoman for Southern California Edison said Tuesday evening.

The Level Two alert at the plant was called off shortly after 6 p.m. and normal operations were resumed, the Orange County Emergency Operations center said in a statement. Utility spokeswoman Lauren Bartlett said the plant's two units were operating normally throughout the day.

Officials have set up a hotline if people have questions about the alert that was declared at the Orange County facility. People are asked to call (714) 628-7085. The hotline will be open until 9 p.m.

Bartlett said the leak occurred about 3 p.m. in a make-up water-treatment system in a non-nuclear part of the facility. As a precautionary measure, some workers were evacuated.

Under federal regulations, there are four emergency levels depending on severity. Level two involves any "potential substandard degradation in the level of safety of the
plant."

"There is no danger to the public at this time," the Orange County Emergency Operations center said.

[For the record: 9:17 p.m. Nov. 1, 2011: A previous version of this post incorrectly reported that Bartlett said normal operations had resumed at the plant.]

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