ML19224C041

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Newspaper Article from 790516 Lancaster,Pa 790516 Intelligencer Journal, Contaminated Work Clothes Found in TMI Trash Dump
ML19224C041
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Site: Crane 
Issue date: 05/16/1979
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PR-790516, NUDOCS 7906280191
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eredin the same trash dump where Dve fire another part of that trash dump,"said NRC.,.authorud workers are. permitted in thed companies and the Air NatonalGuard bat-sposesman Karl Abraham.

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don't show any evidence of being scorched ~ f'just a couple days, he noted..r. b cn 0 W e don't thmk there's any problem with the c.ney were located w'.th radiation-sen-~.

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! Mord of the discovery came Tuesday : 1strabve procedure to see that at doesn't away for'.'properburial,"he said.T &.

afternoon from Rep. Kenneth Brandt of happen arain. Somehow t.N. y got putin

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