ML19246A971
| ML19246A971 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07000893 |
| Issue date: | 05/18/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MELBOURNE, FL |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7907100110 | |
| Download: ML19246A971 (1) | |
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'70-893 Florida Institute of Technology Country Club Road Melbourne, Florida 32901 Gentlemen:
The enclosed IE Circular 79-08, is forwarded to you for information.
If there are any questions related to the contents or intent of the Circular or its attachments, please contact this office.
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Enclosures:
IE Circular No. 79-08 w/ attach =ents 777
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMM15SION OFFICf 0F INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 May 18, i.79 IE Circular No. 79-08 ATTE!iPTED EXTORTION - LOW ENRICHED URANIUM
Background
In January 1979, a temporary contractor employee who was working at the General Electric plant in Wilmington, North Carolina, allegedly sntered the plant and removed a drum containing two 5 gallon cans of low enriched uranium from the facility with the intention of extorting money for the return of the material. The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an intensive investigation leading to the arrest of the employet (,n February 1, 1979. All material was recovered and returned to the plant.
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ion Base on preliminary inforiaation provided the NRC, the theft was allegedly carried out in the following manner:
On Friday, January 26, 1979, the subject worked the day shift.
3+ 10:50 p.m. the same day he drove back to the plant and entered
'ith the night shift. He showed his Flerida driver's license at
- a. entrance gate instead of his yellow contractor badge because it had a blue background similar to that on the picture badge which he thought was required to gain access to the area of the plant that he wanted to penetrate.
He had allegedly gained access using his driver's license on previous occasions.
Once in:;ide the plant, the subject would' have been guided by gates and fences into a parking area had it not been for the fact that one gate had been removed to allow installation of truck res.les.
He proceeded down the unprotected road to an area adjacent to the building he wanted to enter.
After the subject entered the building through a personnel door, he proceeded to his normal working station which was the Chem Tech Lab and entered, using hir, own key.
In the lab he picked up his protective clotning, a two wheel cart used to move 55 gallon drums and a container used to ship chemicair. The container could hold two 5 gallon cans.
He then proceeded to a door leading up a stu rvell into the radiation m
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