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Blocked air lines
WASHINGTON ( AP) Blocked air
lines may have caused a valve failure
that contributed to the Three Mile Island
nuclear • power plant accident, a
congressional panel was told yesterday.
Edwin L. Zebroski: 'director of the
Nuclear Safety Analysis Center of the
Electric Power Research Institute,
made the statement in testimony to the
House subcommittee on energy
research.
The center, based in Palo Alto, Calif.,
'as, formed by a group of public and
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private utilities in May to study the
causes of the Three Mile Island accident
and recommend safety measures.
Rep. Mike McCormack, D-Wash.,
chairman of the subcommittee, asked
Zebroski why it was that auxiliary
cooling water failed to flow, to the
Pennsylvania reactor for eight minutes
after the main cooling system failed on
March 28.
"I think there is a strong surmise, but
it's circumstantial," Zebroski replied.
"There apparently was a possibility of
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may have cOhtribUted to failure ;
getting the air system contaminated
with something that should not be there
possibly bits of resin, possibly water
or oil."
Zebroski said resin was used to, purify
the air around the instruments in an
auxiliary building which hobsed the
secondary water system valve.
He said particles from the impure air
used to aerate the 'resin may have
somehow been shifted to the supposedly
pure air in the instrument chamber.
Lie said the particles could have
California residents flee
Fires endanger homes
VENTURA, Calif. (UPI)' An 18,000-acre brush fire
swooped down a mountain slope towards hundreds of homes in
Ventura yesterday, but lack of wind helped firefighters
kablize the flames.
Several other communities also were badgered by flames as
hot temperatures and warm winds stirred up nearly a dozen
fires throughout California, charring thousands of acres of
brush and,timber and burning some structures. Help came in
from 28 states to contain the blaze.
In Ventura, about 60 miles up the coast from Los Angeles,
the flames from a blaze that began Tuesday near Ojai, 10 miles
away, moved to the edge of the city limits, but no structures
had yet burned and no major injuries were reported. ,
When the blaze broke out on Sulphur Mountain near Ojai,
many residents fled from homes in the Mira Monte and Oak
View districts. One observer said hundreds of homes were
temporarily abandoned in the face of a "mass of flames."
The blaze also damaged about 85 acres of citrus groves,
some of which were bulldozed to make a fire break.
Farther up the coast in Santa Barbara County, a 4,000-acre
fire in Eagle Canyon near Goleta jumped the Pacific Coast
Highway and burned to the beach, destroying four ranch
structures in Eagle Canyon and one house in Winchester
Canyon.
The blaze also roasted 38 head of cattle, valued at $40,000 and
put residents of three areas the San Miguel and Rancho
Embarcadero housing tracts and Santa Barbara West Mobile
Home Park into flight.
Firefighters had 35 percent of the blaze contained but were
also worried about afternoon winds. The worst area of
. the fire
was the northern flank, which was burning in an inaccessible,
choked a tiny opening in the valve,
"causing it to shut when it shouldn't
shut."
Zebroski said the stuck valve "was a
factor but not the most fundamental
factor in the initiation of the accident."
McCormack, however, speculated that
the valve failure "confused the
situation," causing operators in the
control room to miss other conditions
and fail to take actions that might have
averted the mishap.
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Warren H. Owen, testifying on behalf went on there for a long time that from a:
of an Atomic Industrial Forum corn- management standpoint I believe should,
mittee following up on the Three Mile. .--have been corrected." He said the In::
Island accident, said the loss , of secon- struments for the secondary systerir
dary cooling water was "at least a "needed clean air "
hassle factor "
"That is the last thing you need in a
control room when an accident or a
crisis occurs." Owen, a senior vice
president of Duke Power Co. in
Charlotte, N.C.., told the'subcommittee.
Qwen said that apparently "things
uninhabitated terrain
A section of coastal Highway 101, one of the two majoii:
highway links between metropolitan Los Angeles and the &aril;
Francisco Bay Area, remained closed. •
Firefighters contained a 200-acre blaze in the nearby Lake.
Cachuma area.
Although only about 100 to 150 acres were burned in Box 4
Canyon in the Simi Valley near the, Ventura-Los Angeles ,
County line, the blaze was considered the second most im-;
portant fire in the state because of the threat to homes. -
Sheriff's officials said the flames threatened about 60 homesl
in Santa Susanna Knolls on the west and another string of
homes at the top of Box Canyon to the east.
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Air tankers dropped water on the blaze in the hopes of get
ting a quick containment.
Crews from as far away as Florida, Louisiana, Texas„:
Georgia and South Caroline helped battle the three-day-did:
Chili Bar fire near Placerville in the historic Mother Lode:
country of Northern California.
The 8,200-acre brush and timer blaze was 60 percent con-,
tained yesterday morning. Property loss to four homes,-
bulldozer, a barn and five outbuildings was estimated ai.
$280,000 and three firefighters were treated for burns.
About 300 homes in Swansboro on the northwest flank of the
blaze were evacuated. . • 4
Elsewhere in the state, warm winds were still a threat to the
six-day old, 31,000-acre Sage fire, in the Angeles Natiothik
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Forest in the mountains north of Los Angeles.
A companion blaze, the 4,800-acre . Monte Fire, was 85 pet , :
cent contained yesterday and reseeding to replenish the:
hillsides was already started in some areas. . •
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MiZIM;S
Zebroski said the analysis of the.evo.
by the industry-supported center %%;as:
based on "the instrument charts and the
computer records ... together witha_
data logger something like a flight
recorder, which provides a more
complete record of what was happening
than the operators had."
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