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Event Report Forms (ERFs) are filed to the IAEA. Sometimes there are multiple event reports, updating the rating, the event description. Here you only see the latest event report

ERF send date: Thu, 01-02-1996
ERF description: After long time period of outage (since April 1995) for realisation of the life time prolongation program the reactor BN-350 was switched on and operated with power 420 MW since 05/01/96.
At 17/01/96, during routine switching, oil-system operating secondary coolant pump has been wrongly switched off by operator.
Automatically reactor power has been decreased to 300 MW. After 14 hours according to a routine procedure reactor power had been recovered to 420 MW.
There was no damage of equipment or radiation leakage in the plant or exposure to the plant employees.
Justification: as full safety functions were avaiable, the event is rated at level "0" as per user's manual, Part III.
ERF rating date: 23-01-1996
ERF contact person: S.V. KRECHETOV
ERF address: ALMA ATA 480013, Kazakhstan
ERF affiliation: ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY OF THE, REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN, 13 REP. SQUARE

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