ML20136E919

PNS-I-86-001:on 860102,contract Const Security Force Received Bomb Threat from Unidentified Caller.Contingency Plan Implemented.Drywell & Reactor Bldg Searched W/Negative Results.Security Increased Due to Lay Offs of Craft Workers

ML20136E919
Person / Time
Site:	Hope Creek
Issue date:	01/02/1986
From:	Keimig R, Galen Smith NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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References
PNS-I-86-001, PNS-I-86-1, NUDOCS 8601070157
Download: ML20136E919 (1)

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DCS: 50-354/860102 Date: January 2, 1986 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNS-I-86-01 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information is as initially received without verification or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the Region I staff on this date.

Facility: Public Service Electric & Gas Co. Licensee Emergency Classification:

Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Sta. Notification of Unusual Event Hancocks Bridge, New Jersey Alert (D/N 50-354) Site Area Emergency General Emergency X Not Applicable

Subject:

BOMB THREAT On January 2, 1986, at 10:03 a.m., a member of the contract construction security force received a call through the construction switchboard from an unidentified male caller who stated " Bomb is in the Drywell". The call was apparently made from an offsite line. At 10:15 a.m. the licensee implemented the contingency plan since new fuel is onsite. There was no one in the drywell and few people in the reactor building at the time. Bomb search teams searched the drywell and the reactor building with negative results. The licensee secured from the Unusual Event at 11:28 a.m.

About 1,000 craft workers have been laid off over the past two weeks and craft personnel reductions will continue through January, 1986. Increased security patrols throughout the plant have been implemented by the licensee.

The local law enforcement agencies, the FBI, the Explosive Ordinance Division of the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey and the State of New Jersey were notified by~

the licensee.

The NRC operations center received the information from the licensee via the ENS at 10:28 a.m. and informed the IAT.

This PNS is issued for information only and is current as of 11:30 a.m.

CONTACT: G. Smith R. Keimig 488-1263 488-1255 DISTRIBUTION:

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