ML20137H429

PNS-I-85-016:on 851123,during Reactor Shutdown,Bomb Threat Received from Unidentified Male by Telephone.Bomb Search Initiated.Event Terminated When No Bomb Found

ML20137H429
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	11/25/1985
From:	Keimig R, Galen Smith NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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References
PNS-I-85-016, PNS-I-85-16, NUDOCS 8512020388
Download: ML20137H429 (1)

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DCS: 50-352/851125

Date: November 25, 1985 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNS-I-85-16 This preliminary notification constitutes EAR!.Y 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: Philadelphia Electric Co. Licensee Emergency Classification:

Limerick Generating Station y Notification of Unusual Event Limerick, Pennsylvania Alert (D/N 50-352) Site Area Emergency General Emergency Not Applicable

Subject:

B0MB THREAT On November 23,1985 at 11:38 a.m., the plant security force received a telephone call from an unidentified male caller who stated, in a muffled voice, that a bomb was going to go off in the plant. Shortly before, at about 11:15 a.m., the Shift Supervisor in the Control Room took a telephone call and, after he identified himself, a male caller, also in a muffled voice, stated "I don't want to talk to you . . . . . . ". Both calls were apparently made from an outside line.

At 1:22 p.m., the licensee declared an unusual event and initiated a bomb search.

No bomb was found and the unusual event was terminated at 3:20 p.m. The plant was not evacuated. The reactor was shut down at the time of the event.

The NRC Operations Center received the information from the licensee via ENS at 12:22 p.m. and informed the IAT.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylv nia was informed.

This PNS is issued for information only and is current as of 10:00 a.m., November 25, 1985.

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

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