ML20115G584

Intervenor Exhibit I-GANE-17,consisting of News Release Re NRC Inspector in Atlanta,Has Sued Agency for Sex Discrimination & Harassment.Related Correspondence

ML20115G584
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Site:	Neely Research Reactor
Issue date:	05/21/1996
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CON-#396-17755 REN-I-GANE-017, REN-I-GANE-17, NUDOCS 9607190210
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' NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Met 6 h -He h

'/ //AE ~/7 DOCK N O USiRC' '"""'""*d b" EMBU NO. d 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- >w C4 Monday, December 27,1993 *****

I --. v. r u u $EC;in:,8 Although a Georgia Tech contmued op-irplve,one of the leng's agencys allegations five

)4 efafing the reactor until January

-~ DCCXE fidG & ' rec ~ mal offices, reports have 1988,when the NRC orderedit to l c emptnee gog prev.ously mdicated a growmg eqase allexperiments because of I

O bbLV1e naistrustof the NRCamong whis-

,e t% blowers at nuclear power a!,:,' breakdown in management cels" - the same problem

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pSnts. .

y Long said some NRC manag-Lati'g had previouslyidentified.

"They put something in [the

. ers delete or " water down" seri- reigtor] that got much more ra-ous safety problems documente,d P]Ut PU C 1Rinspectors.She added thatitis diation than they thought it vpuid and the sample exploded,"

4- an agency dominated by " good ~

contamma'ing a worker, Long mAA1 p ob1; boys" who reward " team ssfd.

1 players."

The NRC hired Iong in Feb-

, ,Long's discrimination and karassment allegations against

[7tlanta WOInan C1teS

.2 niary 1986 at an entry-twel sala-ry, earning about $20,000 less Jape were rejected in 1990 by a report on Tech reaCror fedgral magistrate.

than male inspectors with com-L -

EBut a federal judge who re-p, arable background viewed the yc!ATED PRESS '

a; master's degree m, s. She trf nuclear en f holds , ruling decided to re-Die case, which now includes

,) Nuclear Regulatory Com- gmeermg.

additional alle~gations.

rgigsioninspectorin Atlanta who i F.5hesaidhertroublebeganaf j 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 her; work was compromised at In'the past he has vowed to pro-h# lawsuit are managers Frank tecf nuclear industry whistle-potential risk to the public and i i Ken Barr and Bruce Wil-Jale, nuclear industry workers- blosers and weed out harass-soti Another manager, Bill Lit- medt and discrimination within e.Rebecca Long,40, said male ; tie;was the subject of a griev- !

ma' nagers in the Atlanta regional the ,A' gency.

afice long filed with her union. '

( @e undermined some of her ~

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safety related findings out of hor,k inJape, Barr IIand the Region Little office. Wil- still 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.

Pa"I'm not anti-NRC," she told m'ept. Neither Barr nor Wilson returned telephone calls, g

the: Houston Chronicle in Sun- MThe Georgia Tech incident, day's editions. "Some of the fin-estpeople I've ever worked with fjilch resulted in a worker's ra- Md diation exposure, was one of sev-are:here, and they do a hell of a ~

• eral examples Long offered of Q,gy) 19b3 It's just that there are pock- what she considers questionable ,

epof problems that need to be NRC conduct.

g.'In 1987, she inspected a re-CMlaned gI4ng worksout."

gigp II office m,in oyprsees 33 nuclear reactors in thewhich Atlanta, NRC's Re- searchreactoroperated byGeor- .

gialTech. Based on her inspec- l

$Mh tson,the NRCcitedthe university 1R; Southeastern states, Puerto gyseveral violations, including Rico and the Virgin Islands.

t

. ,.She said four men m the of- faifure to properly control ex-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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