ML20115G584
| ML20115G584 | |
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| Site: | Neely Research Reactor |
| Issue date: | 05/21/1996 |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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O staff D Applicant Effntervenor O Other Q&fentified O Received @jected Reporter. 6) L (.J jp5 9s a w gc;n ve. m u mn-
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- v. r u u $EC;in:,8 Although leng's allegations a Georgia Tech contmued op-I --.
irplve,one of the agencys five efafing the reactor until January
)4 DCCXE fidG & ' rec ~ mal offices, reports have 1988,when the NRC orderedit to l
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emptnee gog prev.ously mdicated a growmg eqase allexperiments because of c
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bbLV1e naistrustof the NRCamong whis-t% blowers at nuclear power a!,:,' breakdown in management
,e cels" - the same problem C
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lao Lati' had previouslyidentified.
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Long said some NRC manag-y "They put something in [the ers delete or " water down" seri-reigtor] that got much more ra-P]Ut PU C
ous safety problems documente,d diation than they thought it 1Rinspectors.She added thatitis vpuid and the sample exploded,"
4-an agency dominated by " good
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ob1; boys" who reward " team contamma'ing a worker, Long ssfd.
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players."
,Long's discrimination and
[7tlanta WOInan C1teSniary 1986 at an entry-twel sala-karassment allegations against The NRC hired Iong in Feb-ry, earning about $20,000 less Jape were rejected in 1990 by a
.2 report on Tech reaCror than male inspectors with com-fedgral magistrate.
E ut a federal judge who re-B L
- p, arable background a; master's degree m, s. She holds,
viewed the ruling decided to re-yc!ATED PRESS nuclear en f trf Die case, which now includes
,) Nuclear Regulatory Com-gmeermg.
rgigsioninspectorin Atlanta who i F.5hesaidhertroublebeganaf j additional alle~gations.
LiNRC Chainnan Ivan Selin re-has, sued the agency for sex dis-tdthe complained aboutherpay fused to comment on the lawsuit.
enminationandharassmentsays I toRegionIImanagers. Named in In'the past he has vowed to pro-her; work was compromised at h# lawsuit are managers Frank tecf nuclear industry whistle-i potential risk to the public and i
Jale, Ken Barr and Bruce Wil-blosers and weed out harass-nuclear industry workers-soti Another manager, Bill Lit-medt and discrimination within e.Rebecca Long,40, said male ;
tie;was the subject of a griev- !
the,A' gency.
ma' nagers in the Atlanta regional afice long filed with her union.
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@e undermined some of her
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hor, Jape, Barr and Little still
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safety related findings out of k in the Region II office. Wil-SPife-sod left the NRC last year.
f.DShe said the handling of her
..dLittle, reached at his home by safety report on a nuclear reac-the Chronicle last week, said "I t6rlat Georgia Tech was an exam-don't know of any retaliation" pju.of what she considers ques-againstleng. Jape declined com-tionable NRC conduct.
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Pa"I'm not anti-NRC," she told returned telephone calls, the: Houston Chronicle in Sun-MThe Georgia Tech incident, day's editions. "Some of the fin-fjilch resulted in a worker's ra-Md estpeople I've ever worked with diation exposure, was one of sev-are:here, and they do a hell of a
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eral examples Long offered of Q,gy) 19b It's just that there are pock-what she considers questionable,
3 epof problems that need to be NRC conduct.
CMlaned out."
g.'In 1987, she inspected a re-gI4ng works searchreactoroperated byGeor-.
$Mh gigp II office m,in the NRC's Re-Atlanta, which oyprsees 33 nuclear reactors in gialTech. Based on her inspec-l tson,the NRCcitedthe university 1R; Southeastern states, Puerto gyseveral violations, including Rico and the Virgin Islands.
faifure to properly control ex-
- t.,.She said four men m the of-pdiments.
fice have tampered with her
. CA few months later, she said, rork, badgered her with deroga-Jape' retracted the citations with-tory comments and improperly obt her knowledge, contrary to denied her promotions and bo-NRC procedures.
nuses since 1987.
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