ML20148D158
| ML20148D158 | |
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| Site: | West Valley Demonstration Project |
| Issue date: | 10/04/1972 |
| From: | Engelken R US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Kruesi F US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 8009150107 | |
| Download: ML20148D158 (1) | |
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DJ OCT 4 T372 F. E. Krucoi Director of negulatory Operations
/IO'iYMCUS LETIC : CCUT 10CLP_'.R FUCL EFEVICES, IEST W1 LEY Durina the lest eso ucchs of'Septc=har, Region I corducted a plcnned routine, uncanounced inspectica of Nuclear ruel Services,'Jent Valley, r m 'icrk.
Lurin, this perioC, the inspector intectigated tuo cpecific n11ccations concerning "1cahn;c cecidents frors tns atacks" and "a Icesuit.
.. now pending rc an rr.ployee who died thic Cprins for everexposure i
Thcas allegationo ucre in an anonyr.ous ictter, dated Septec.ber 3, 1972, to J. H. Hendric.
1!ith respect to the stach lonhago. the incpcetor found nn cubstance to the allegntion.
The inspcetor revicued cperating los bocho, enviro:cental data, and diccuaced stach r.onitoring operations uith 123 technicians.
173 is cuarc that an individual who terninated e ploycont in January 1972, died later in the Spring of 1972, but !TS is not cuarc of any pen-:ing lausuit.
faic individual, nearly 72 years old ct the ti:".a of his d:ath, had had cancer and lung-receval sur3 cry.
Es had been ceployed at 1;TS cince Cetober 1966, as a 1cundry corkcr.
llic record of radiation exposure doca not indicate any overexposure to radiation or to radionctive mterial.
Datails on those nattero vill be in the inspection report uhich vill be placed in !.~C's Public Dncumanc Roca. Addi.cionally, ue bave requested that c local public doctr: ant reou be entablished near IT3 so that tha residento near the 1l cat Valley plant nay be cuare i
of our inspections and our findings.
Concerning the anonymous nature of the letter, ue believe theco actions are nppropriato and cufficient.
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