ML19322A374

PNO-79-358:on 790820,individual Contaminated Trousers While Working.Wore Trousers Home.Caused by Defective Survey Meter That Did Not Detect Contamination.Wife,Apartment,Clothing & Car of Worker Were Surveyed.No Contamination Found

ML19322A374
Person / Time
Site:	Crane
Issue date:	08/22/1979
From:	Liza Cunningham, Higginbotham L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To:
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PNO-79-358, NUDOCS 7910110676
Download: ML19322A374 (1)

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. Augost 22., 1979 PP.ELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-79-358 inis oreliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of 'an event of FOSSIELE safety or oublic interest sionificance.

Tne informatien presente: is as initially received witnout verification or evaluation anc is casically all that is known bv IE staff on tnis date.

Fccility:

Metropolitan Edison Company 1

Three Mile Island, Units 1 & 2 THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS Middletown, Pennsylvania POOR QUAUlY PAGES (Docket Numbers 50-289/50-320)

Su:fect:

RADI0 ACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF AN EMPLOYEE On August 20, 1979, an individual contaminated his trouser knees wnile working on a cump in the Cap-Gun 1 liquid radwaste processing system and subsequently wore the trouser home.

The contamination, about 30,000 dpm, was not detected until August 21, 1979 when the individual surveyed himself at the Cap-Gun 2 f acility.

The individual had surveyed himself before leaving the site on A u _:Ust 20th; however, the licensee stated that the survsy meter usec was de'e:tive due to a faulty cable.

On Augtst 21st the licensee surveyec tne inci.icuals's wife, apartment, clothing, and car; no contamination was f ound.

'ne incivicual's trousers were laundered at the TMI cecontamination facility, ar: :ne contamination was removed.

Ine licensee determined that 11 other incividuals exited through the same c:. oi acint using the defective survey meter.

Tne licensee will determine if anj of these personnel were contaminated.

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