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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: Fri, 11-02-2000
ERF description: During the night of 27-28 December 1999, exceptionally bad weather in the region resulted in the forming of waves which moved up the River Gironde and flooded part of the Blayais site, particularly certain facilities of Units 1 and 2. As a result of this flooding Units 1 and 2 were shut down in the night of 27-28 December and placed on standby with the steam generators used for cooling ready for connection to the reactor heat removal (RHR) system At the moment when the flooding occurred, Unit 3 was shut down and cooled by the RHR system. Unit 3 was not affected by the flooding. Unit 4, which was just placed in hot shutdown state, went critical on 30 December.
Units 1 and 2 kept shut down and cooled by the steam
ERF rating date: 29-12-1999
ERF contact person: Mrs. V. Jacq
ERF address: Route du Panorama Robert Schum, France
ERF affiliation: DSIN

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