ML20073G649

Testimony of E Lebid Re Observations Made During 830309 Radiological Emergency Response Plan Exercise

ML20073G649
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Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	04/08/1983
From:	Lebid G PARENTS CONCERNED ABOUT INDIAN POINT, PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, NEW YORK, UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
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Observer Enid Lebid Site School Reception Center Fox Lane High School, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.

(School was not in session.)

Date March 9, 1983 Time: 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Purpose To observe scanning area at entrance to school, where chilcren would be checked for radiation upon arrival.

Observations of site:

Sign outside front entrance: PET Containment Area Signs inside front lobby: Stop -- Scan Area Above 0.1 MR/HR --

Go to Decon Area Clean Area Only!

Do Not Pass Unless Scanned & Cleant Sign in inner room: Rapid Resolve Services Red Cross symbol Visitors Obser"ed:

Member N.Y. State Disaster Preparedness Commission Member Division of Military / Naval Affairs (Disaster Preparedness Com. under that)

Many personnel of Dept. of Social Services--Peekskill, Ossining, Mt. Kisco offices Federal Observer, FEMA--Tom Baldwin, Pt. Washington Observations of Procedure Procedure began approx. 2:00 p.m.

l It took an average of 16 minutes to scan each person. Examples

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l Scanning of one woman: 3 min. scanning portfolio j 10 min, scanning front of woman 3 min scanning back 16 min. total Health Department worker, commenting to police officer: "I had to hold the scanner in one place for at least five seconds i to get a reading."

Part of the procedure was the scanning of soles of shoes.

Each person was asked to lift one foot at a time to be scanned.

After a clean reading of one foot, the person was asked to step with that foot only into the clean area, over the tape on the i

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floor, while keeping the other foot back, and then asked to raise the other foot for scanning. One woman held onto the wall for balance, and then had to have that hand re-scanned, since she touched the wall.

2:40 p.m.-- Out of a total of three Geiger counters, two went dead in less than one hour. A worker noted that they were stamped, "Date checked, Feb. 1983." (Four batteries each.)

Replacement batteries evidently did not work either, since an entire box of them, labeled, "Cxtra Batteries," were not used.

These batteries were not dated, the worker observed. Scanning was continued, with one Geiger counter instead of three.

Following this audible exchange of information, the Health Department worker was taken aside by the worker in charge.

It was obvious that no further comments were heard after that, regarding faulty equipment. This occurred after the disclosure of my identification as a member of the Alliance to Close Indian Point.

A worker announced that there would be "more equipment shortly."

One worker said that there were a couple of other scanners somewhere else in the building, but they were in use. After close to an hour of scanning with one Geiger counter only, one more was added.

3:50 p.m.-- When more than 10 people were waiting on line to be scanned, the scanning time was reduced from approximately 16_ minutes te 5 minutes per person.

Uhen FEMA observer's turn came to be scanned, Health Department l worker asked, "Do you know your exposure dose today?" He

1. replied negatively, and she proceeded to scan. Registered a l hi gher reading for one lower leg. Responded negatively to qt:estion, was he carrying anything. Said he came from Peekskill, j and had been on a bus, when asked where he had been.

The Health Department people seemed to perform their jobs with faulty and inadequate equipment as if nothing were wrong.

One visitor commented, "I think these people are hypnotized."

Another visitor said, "Can you just picture if there really was a disaster--everybody getting into their cars?"

Enid J. Mbid 4/8/83