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Expresses Concern Re on-job Intoxication of Facility Employees.Boston Herald American 800403 Article Encl
ML19323G221
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Site: 05000471
Issue date: 04/08/1980
From: Brenner M
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M, t there Pilgrim I: Can liquor and nuclear power mix? Almost every single guy I worked to give us his name. The two reprt- guards," **Somehow they got ast the "I can tell you this." tlie ho pht puble i.h a to recruit onh e. . t.a. 

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  • iw lcrs as nuticar worke rs, it iu. 4 i y on the plant. These men - with drank t<mze on the job. htost of ers who spoke to the people in this *Ilut the security system hete is so alvmt that plant hemg it.cre .,I pt he the simple truth th.it en. l. .e '_,,j k refitters, masons, carpenters, these guys were wonderful peopic, story just wanted to listen. Plym- e I to. I am scry rum. rn..I . l mt p n r is Ihe m ren,: t.thn..ho. n . ~%
  -; borers, welders,plumhers-make hard workers,p=xt family men, fine outh and the surround ng area is ridiculous you wouldn't Iclieve it.                                                                                                                                                               rardieu of in alli o.f aw i t . 4 fathers, veterans. Working en metal what in America is known as "a There is one guy who was always wi_, is markmg tin re .in.1 en a h..t sort of the town simpleton checking condition."                                                                           human la ings Af t r .Ji. = t.. s . r Q
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plant to They pl4nt intrav. skrictons 60 storics above the earth company town." in this case a pri-In talking to thric stramfitt. r, you find human f.einrs P 's. d' i n. t c 

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2' t the Plymouth plant, their courage was found in a bottle of on the role of p6%c monarch. Too the way in. The outtime andabooze spent rm Rere theI was way one whoofwork them,in fruna the pl.T.nnea int at The le n 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               .i r. s.ml                nuticar pua rr w muy hi.s 6 n shifts call for seven 10 hour Scagrams 7.                                                         much is at stake for most per.ple to t

liut the men who worked high criticine Tne Company. It emph ys , thomghtly searched only once. I "liell, they can't keep enougio 1.ier m_aph in the trahniv 

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  • f their wives and chddren and iron endangered only themselves the citirens. its vast revenues keep think they'd be better off getting and Jack Daniels for us in ihi> t.. .I mt """N-of their home towns. They when they drank. In a nuclear plant. - taxeslow,it brings itincrant dollars sorae laboons out of the 300." They're always running out.1 l..n't
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est times,three in a room at . men who go to war,k stoned run the to%a' M tim'i'W M*Of Ai6fNNN.3(YdOf.lmG Mev-werrf-thout radiation mben you 3 e@arious hotels in the areas in possibility of wiping out anyone nfu ding necessary for corrmunity rnorial, the Jordan llospital has ree- think of all the t =ee I ilru.k and O 4 $e v ghlcip they work. Each day they are ithm a LO-mile radm* velopment. ords of treating one higrim securi. cigarettes I smoke." nrliMTLhink of myself- . deBut t At another Iwal matermr t...fc g y""y A y;,eiposed to one of the most as an al,armist, but when I walked d' ngers,he deadly evenpeople if in hushed Jo talk tm.csahnut ty guard who was in an auts. mobile t!w. on the way to work. The called The Yankiv Trna ler. : m. l.1-accident '" 

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Drces'in nature - radiation. hospital records show the guard as er at har ide was heari' O lims hi-Phipgs hke home cooked me:' are. into a joint called The Inn near ard under the promise of anony- (d. 11ymouth, a plare a h(re,a few dos- m heing intoxirated. Another nuricar - 1.uddy:"I went in t here f.ot m. i k w ,,,,.,.._,,.,...,.,, g[, gles' memorles. They don't get to l en of the 7tio itanerants m town are t.yj ,,3 p,0.nucicar energ worker adm:tted to hospital work- hungwer " was num!. I inul.lu m e.*f,.g; y 6~ " 

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                                                                  ;sta>ing. sirens a tarted screamingin , fo .e I gnt a job in th? plant,y be-said ers he was taking amphetamines make that are for lu ll to n.) fo.e-
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  • y of women la often a financial my head. , on e former when he came from work to tpe man told me ta to out an.l r 'li- * -
       =             n, Taxes chew up their cum.                         "I Am't know h                                *l h,g ,,, g. m    employee totally against  of theitplant, I emerranry ronm. Another arrised hair of the dog I ha.1 a f.
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these said one regu- m%ked guysfor a short perisul of time as . from work b an alcohnlic seizure. u nis lunch and i m.olc th..t u. l.! .o 4 ,,n r. 3 7. 

             ,. Mben a group of rnen is placed                     lar of The inn who does not work in a heath physics inspector at the -                                              In a f dace called The White pretty as a picture."                                                                  y g,M,Mo" og og =., * . * .
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dgether in an environment such as the plant. "They come home from pla.nt. My job was to read the dase-murk stoned drunk at 7 in the morn- . meters to determine how much rath- ers witnessed one of the piant - the plant hcbi a mil. hat tinkr. At **ggl,;'ll1l,*C,% ;*?- Jis the rituals of machismo often Ing and come bere ard then they hit staan the men had contracted while . guards drinking wi'h plant con- least three plant moetera md it ,,,,,_,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,.. m, ail. And, there is no single Q 

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  • this place starts at 7 a.m. Then they reached the quota they are not pct- illegal, even the flaacball Commis- cnrked a member o' lloem l%h + i R

11' gion.of machismo than alcohol. relieves tensions and long- get a few hours slecp and go back to, rnitted to contmue to work for vn-' sioner has strict rules about em. management the mes k h. (me in . E**J CW** **" ' ' the har and get stoned agata and go, oth'er couple of months. pires socia:izing with hall players.. ginmill and a large nunter of 10- ..L"O.'.C*U*C.E 

       ,'d     ;    )nd v6rious other pressures,
       /%rpinch and how fast and how                                to work.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ' For sute rdn m r43 p e 1. J "The other morning four I coe Well                             when some of thesesion,it in they are supposed to push a guys    would' The      Nedent scem. has fewer     Regulatory re-      when the  Commis-men a afkedoffs out.that  -un h.ifollowed s                        At n nl nu.sning'"#                                      ','          '

Vidg' een can drink is often consid. these guys, huge guys, mg were har,of plahtie card with their name and so- strictions than hascha3. at Imt three of ti.. m n rc ..lun.or "" " 

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     ' god the measure of the man. In                               a brawl in the dining rtem outside. esal securit number and work numJ                                              A hospital muker I sp4e with                         Mi. hrh.h.s on the g.i k. t I.n.-                                                                                   ,.
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Wqstjfraterpatics uhere men are The hinw.c is ail .orr it.e pt... [," Three guys r.tomped another guy's ber into a s ot. A lot of them w ere so tuhl eine that everything mentioned ,i h wn together -- the army, hunt. ami no one shout.f he urynw.t ti r,,,,, ,a i a, g,. 63i,a n..' teeth out. One of the waitresses dru n k they couldn't even get the in the local paper's story was true, f Mpediticas, sports arenas -you asked me to help her throw them cari,is in the slot. I'm talking almut It mas common knowledge that has been my espvrware use r it,. [r: 

      'l                ged ley your peers on the 1 of altchol you can drink.                   out. I asked her if she saw the big S. Icgless. New I don't mind if they guys were going to the plant loaded. years that construrtiou u orLe r3                                                                                              A d'"t i +'< 's mT ai d t
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4 three sum.ncrs while on va. un the front er the back of my werp pushing a broom or something )et the hospital was furious that drmk almost as n.u. h .c, nom. p.... r = " a' ' *h * *r ta la d' a " frorn. college I worked as a shirt." but It hese guys had acecss to the re- this infor:natir n was leaked to the people. And tLis pr. wnt, an .n-L No one shu umke to us wanted actd r room. press. Iemma. Smre it is siituativ in m.1 8*' i truction worker in Manhattan. I 

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