ML19256B297
| ML19256B297 | |
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| Site: | 05000360 |
| Issue date: | 05/18/1979 |
| From: | Engelken R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Selby J Battelle Memorial Institute, PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATION |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7906080213 | |
| Download: ML19256B297 (1) | |
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Docket No. 50-360 Battelle Memorial Institute Pacific Northwest Laboratories Battelle Blvd.
Richland, Washington 99352 Attention: Mr. J. M. Selby, Manager Radiation Standards and Engineering 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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20555 May 18, 1979 IE Circular No. 79-08 ATTEMPTED EXTORTION - LOW ENRICHED URAllIUM
Background
In January 1979, a temporary contractor employee who was working at the General Electric plant in Wilmington, North Carolina, allegedly entered 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 employee on February 1, 1979. All material was recovered and returned to the plant.
Discussion Based on preliminar./ information provided the NRC, the thef t was allegedly carried out in the %110 wing manner:
On Friday, January 2E, 1979, the subject worked the day shift.
At 10:50 p.m. the same day he drove back to the plant and entered with the night shift.
He showed his Florida driver's license at the 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 inside the plant, the subject would have been guided by gates and fences into a parking area hed it not been fcr the fact that one gate had been removed to allow installation of truck scales.
He proceeded down the unprotected road tc an area adjacent to the building he wanted to enter.
Af ter 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 his own key.
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