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Company: Consolidated Edison Company of New York
Current Parent Company: Consolidated Edison
Penalty: $88,000
Year: 2000
Date: February 25, 2000
Offense Group: safety-related offenses
Primary Offense: nuclear safety violation
Violation Description: On February 25, 2000, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty of $88,000 was issued for a Severity Level II problem involving: (1) failure to translate design basis requirements into procedure of the 480 Volt (V) vital bus degraded voltage relays, which led to loss of offsite power to the vital busses; (2) failure to ensure that procedures used to calibrate the breaker trip units for the emergency diesel generators (EDGs) were adequate, which led to the inoperability of one EDG, and (3) failure to take corrective actions for a significant condition adverse to quality involving repetitive problems with the reactor protection system over-temperature/delta temperature circuitry, which led to initiation of a reactor trip.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New York
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New York
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: utilities and power generation
Specific Industry of Current Parent: utilities
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