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Date Posted: 09:51:41 12/31/99 Fri
Author: GF
Subject: 'Unusual Event' Declared at Pennsylvania Nuclear Plant


[Not to worry--it's not Y2K related, and it's the "least serious of emergency events". I guess they happen all the time. Hmmm.]

The Associated Press
12/31/99 7:40 AM Eastern

LIMERICK, Pa. (AP) -- One of the two nuclear reactors at PECO Energy Co.'s Limerick Generating Station was shut down this morning after a piece of equipment failed.

Company spokesman Neil McDermott said the problem was not Y2K-related.

It was declared an "unusual event," the least serious emergency classification at a nuclear power plant.

The 2:55 a.m. shutdown occurred when an insulator on the main generator transformer for Limerick Unit 2 failed, McDermott said. The transformer is non-nuclear equipment used to increase the voltage of the unit's output before sending electricity out to the power distribution system.

The 1,100-megawatt generating unit will be out of service until the insulator can be repaired, he said.

PECO Energy is a private utility that serves the Philadelphia area.

[http://flash.al.com/cgi-bin/al_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/GENERAL/a0555_PM_BRF--ReactorShutdown]

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