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Issue date:	03/13/1987
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MEMORANDUM FOR:

Jack A. Hind, Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards FROM:

Bruce A. Berson, Regional Counsel

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KPIGHT-PATTEPSON INSPECTION REPORT i

The attached note from OGC is self explanatory.

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NRC STAFF REQUIRES AIR FORCE TO SUBM:T INFORMATION ON COMPLIANCE WITH REGUt.ATIONS The Nuclear Regulatory Comission staff is requiring the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to submit, within 30 days, certain inforination regarding actions it has taken or will take to comply with NRC regulations regarding nuclear materials possessed by the Air Force under an NRC license.

The Air Force holds one NRC license which authorizes it to issue permits for the possession and use of radioactive materials at Air Force locations where the NRC has regulatory jurisdiction.

The single license is managed and controlled by the USAF Radioisotope Comittee.

On September 18, 1986, an incident occurred which resulted in significant radioactive contamination of the inside of a waste stcrsqe building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. The incident, which involved unsealed americium-241, occurred as employees were checking approximately 29 barrels which were stored in the building.

As a result, the Air Force Radiological Assistance Team was activated and a private company was employed to decontaminate the building and repack the barrels at an approximate cost of $500,000 to date.

The NRC staff was not notified of this event sven though agency regulations required the Air Force to report it within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> since it l

involved licensed material that may have or threatened to cause a loss of one day or more of operations at the facility and damage to property in excess of

$2,000.

Further, Wright-Patterson AFB, at the time, was authorized to possess americium-241 only in sealed form when, in fact, more than one curie of the i

material was present in unsealed form.

The NRC staff did not become aware of the event until September 26 when the Radioisotope Comittee advised that a "minor spill' had occurred. Air Force personnel continued to characterize the spill as "minor" until fonnal notification was made on November 7,1986 On February 5,1987, the NRC staff issued a letter to the Air Force confirming that three individuals had been removed from the perfomance or supervision of MRC-licensed activities.

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As the result of these events, the staff has concluded that the Air Force has demonstrated in its dealings with the NRC a lack of understanding of the agency's regulations that raises a question about future compliance with the NRC's reporting requirements.

Further, the incident at Wright-Patterson AFB demonstrated a significant lack of control over the conduct of licensed activi-ties and impaired the NRC's ability to carry out its responsibilities for protecting public health and safety.

Accordingly, the Air Force is required to submit, within 30 days, written inforvation under oath or affirmation, detailing what actions have or will be taken to:

(1) assure that the NRC receives complete, accurate and timely information; (2) assure that individuals restensible for reporting will be fully aware of the NRC's reporting requirements; and (3) assure that activities conducted under the NRC license will comply with the NRC's requirements.

After the staff has reviewed the Air Force response, it will determine if a meeting should be held with Air Force representatives to see what further action, if any, may be necessary.

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Understandings Between The United States Air Force (USAF) And The Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC) Reached In Developing And Issuing USAF License No. 42-23539-01AF The understandings presently and mutually agreed upon are:

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It is the NRC's intent that this license will eventually supersede all

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other USAF licenses. We plan to terminate all other USAF licenses and pending licensing actions. However, we will coordinate tHs effort with the USAF to assure a smooth transition. The USAF Radioisotope Comittee (RIC) will issue a letter to the USAF licensets indicating that their present NRC licenses will be eventually terminated and will be replaced by a temporary USAF permit.

It is our understanding that the RIC will develop a program to replace these temporary permits with permanent ones within a reasonable time.

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The USAF will periodically update its regulations and procedures to reflect the most current NRC or other applicable regulations.

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The RIC will maintain a list of those items or "comodities' for which permits are no? required under the USAF's permit program. This list shall be made available when requested by the NRC. Permits will be issued for Cesium-137 calibration sources. Comodity accountability procedures will be reviewed by the RIC in coordination with the NRC.

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The USAF has no locations that are presently authorized radioactive waste incineratico, radioactive waste burial, studies involving deliberate releases of licensed material to the environment (field testing), or outdoor depleted uranium (DU) munitions testing except for Eglin AFB, Florida, and Nellis AF8, Nevada. The RIC must seek NRC approval for any radioactive waste incinaration, radioactive waste burial, field test using licensed material or additional outdoor testing locations for depleted uranium munitions.

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The RIC will assure that the transportation of licensed material will be 1

in accordance with the NRC's, the Department of Transportation's, and any other agencies' applicable regulations governing the shipment of radioactive materials.

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Effluent releases of licensed material to the environment will comply q

with the NRC's regulations and will be as low as reasonably achievable.

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The NRC reserves the right to conduct inspections of the USAF program, including permittees, authorized under this license at times and places it considers appropriate.

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The NRC will provide guidance and assistance in areas pertinent to the akinistration of this license, to include technical assistance in those matters where the NRC has special capabilities and technical ability, or where the NRC detennines that such assistance is in the best interests of its regulatory program or responsibility.

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The RIC will assure that possession limits of Special Nuclear Material will not exceed the critical mass quantities, as detennined by the pro-j cedures spectfied in 10 CFR 150.11 (a), at any site or for any permit.

10. The RIC will establish leak test requirements for sources and devices containing licensed material consistent with NRC rugulations and license requirements.

11. The RIC will incorporate NRC's inspection criteria into the USAF inspection guides to assure compatibility of inspection programs between the USAF and the NRC.

12. The RIC will maintain an edequate level of professional and clerical 4

staffing to carry out its responsibilities under this license.

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NRC criticizes WPAFB spill FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) that's why the letter went out,to could Lasue a compliance ord l Problems in reporting a preclude it happening in the if it feds more remains to 1 i radioactive spill at Wright-future."

done. Fallure to obey the ord l Putte. son Air Force Base were would result in court actio 1 unusual among military in-1HREE PEOP!E involved in Strauna said.

l stallations, but the Nuclear the spill have been removed, at Bue spokm Don Swr !

Regulatory Commt=!on wants NRC request, from jobs which said bue officials had act y.

to make sure they don't reoccur, would give them any further seen the NRCletter.He said t$ i an NRC apokesman said Friday. conthet with NRC Ilcensed spill wu reported through no 1he comm!Aston sent the base work, mal Air Force channela to i sletter saying Wright Patterson "Obviously it was a people Radioisotope Committee, whk t broke several rules in a Sept.18 problem among those deciding is Ucensed by the NRC to contri s pi11 of r a dIo a et1y e whetherit abould be reported or the possession and uso (

1 americium N1 in a storage not," Strasma said.

radioactive materials at au A ;

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d undentanding of the agency's sealed metal capsuEas re base bal and a wth tb regulations that raise a question about future cornpliance with quired. It was in an unmarked RadlW N. We l l the NRC,s reportlag kun and spUled when workers "n Sept. 35 told the NRC about, '

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1he ceWon ordered the One dthe three workers was mediately to ensure pobu l Air Force to submit a sworn @tly mW% but h safety.

statement by March 19 de9111og "1HE CONTAMINiTION a: !

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there was no release to the er. l vironment and there was r boun.

Base officials have not danger to the pubuc,"be said.

'"this has not been a problern specified what the substance is Swan aald "documentatia in the past" with military in-used for at the base.

problems" have been correctes stallations, aald Jan Straama, a and the Air Force wG)do whatis spokesman for NRC Region III STRASMA SAID the sworn necessary "to continut our goot In Chicago. "It was a problem in statement from base offir% is working relationship with th t this partleular situation and the fint step, but the NRC staff NRC."

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5 There base employees desised puse of the radioactne rnalerant, winch could document his decluiun lisynes had complained he tn sniplenient the proposed coser-a plan to decontaminate the build.

couldn't afford tu ship it to special vi 'or cirht da)s. the Air F, rce Ing cithout informing the res nsi-ble gesernment agencies heir radioactive was!c sites l

o "Al's alleged that lir. lla)nes kept the Nlte m the dark 6 bout the plan called for falsely labeling the insterial and illegally disposing of Iransferred some of his wete s pill $w anson said this was it is a commercial dump.

matenal to en indiodunt at % right-because the Air Forte itself was in

' The emplo)es included Lewis Patterson and then M ri@t Patter-the dark and two managers of Wright Patter-son dacotervd it had the Anseri-

"The indniduals iniohed tried son's Bioenvironmental Engi-

' cium." suinmed up ilobert Quilhn to clean it up themselves and secting Group; Lt Col Maynard of Ohio's llealth l>crertrnent elected not tn inferrn" superior Mood), the director, now retired.

Lewis. who as radiological safety ofriecrs, Swanson said "Did we try and deputy diretter Victor Dunn, otTatt has access in rrcords ard in coser this up with the NRC? We restrseted are.a of Wright Tatter.

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Moody could not be reached for son. Iben stored the inaterial in of the bee cor,mander knowing"fi.

Lewis, the radiation safety of esmment Dunn did net retuto Building 4060 Material in the phone calls placed to his oMte.

drums included contaminated cer. ri-eniered the building et least l

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Insehed in the fan ordered all mant oritten reror s of the p sn "Oar bit conern." said Qmilen, t;m contamtnaUon and notified the destro>ed tu hid( the "prCPosed ONo% tadiotmeal program licalth lute conirnander, Fox, tober up circetnr *is that tl+ niaterial tot Suanson also called the Ale Covernment sourecs identified all the un from 1, irking to Greene Tctre's Itadioisotope Ocmmittee, fount) wjfhnut the knowledge of which osersees all Air Force han.

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an3bMy but thme amnhed dhnt of radisethe rnaterial As a E A senior staffer at the Air "That i a big potential harard nuelcar utility is to a poutt plant, Force radioisotope committee, Whs' If snme had spilleil en route?

the coimmittee, based at Brooks Air ehu h from San Antnruo esersces What if there's hichaa) contamma.

Force P.ase in San Antonio, is the the serMee s b:ndhng of rsdioac, the matentl! and knew of the meri.

tg sov,ewhere and no one knnat g,, page,.s official brensee held it aefountabfe by the NltC ousneu est the spill, misled the After a Op. the Nit (, in Aunt Hut on thr ume day. Sept 26. p I

NltC by calhng it "a minor esent-19?4 ennfronted Irwit and askett sciuor stalTer at the llethoisompe The Plain Dealer was unable to him about the allegation Hackmg Committe.e goe "an inurturate l

I avertain the st:rier's idenut) up ha stor) with Air i nrce transfer

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I Americiuent through mislulielleg ing was clintanineted Hiece and Haynes' Americium and contamin' and transpirting the rnnterial in a two other workers were agaiti sted lab equipment mound up in a n,nn, crept 9,dniit tiscl u aste dl5 tested at the nlound plant Nico es high strurity munitions storage pnnal site in totation of Nlt('.

sbit as.nting finst remults.

arra at one of the nation's most Depninieni of Tr.in settntinn and Thice des later. (kt 9. a techni.

Important mihtary installations 80 nie Force rules usul aceni.stions" clain entered the building. regs-miles asay - was culled from Am-3)onity also diteilett that un tering surfste contamination lesels ernment eeurces and N1(C dneu-repnrtin: anthnrit) initsule of the at 2 Hn million disintegrations per ments The fullvain/ GU61.9tinR8 ntf, he niade nuesii eil the enfilum n,;,,wlt - Riore than 140 000 linics are frorn thme documents piou al in,tinn in Ilinkhn: 4W." the docu*

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otimatel 1 million tirnes the Not until Oct 23 nr M dm summed up wonberger s rnettste J limst arler the first spill - did the hitC th # 8) "They said there sat no Though "the segerity of the ron.

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,;eNcp,,anup. by Chem Nut icar tlc of special mihlery radiate <>n spr.

non ne of,.oinmh:4. A ('., p elatists and chillan contract enn.

On Nnt 19. (,eleste wrnte to soon eMutiated to (W WM by sulthnts was known to the Air Mrinta rger asking uli.s state n(le og, finie it is knahed later this i

Force Radioisotope Committee, the cuili had uret beco nutihe d amon' p,, nth The company declined ecne peup misled the NRC.

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• • charseterited the tAmericiunt Weinberter replicit two n4entbt hwan taid all that remains ol I

release as minor, notwithstanding g,.,9 7,,n s leder cl..ted Jan 20. telb Ruhbre 4060 are corerete chunh knemled;e and information to the ing 11 Icgr, ' Oee release til nochgi-e,f the brnhen heuni.ilner.. waiting contrar).

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low.lesci radiose rne uatte site in lir added "We huse seme' ed all llarnwell $ C..

but sis druins of the rositeerinated lie said the Air Forte decided to materials" and indirsted the sin destroy rathe than pniered with wegld Soon folin*. "The buildinK cleaning up the buildmg "for eco-has been secured until final dis-nnmic reavine The high!) 6e nti.

petal actions base been com*

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strippable paint. tenontuits and There wat no inention of the retnote TY eamera majnt riranup Ihat hed been

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I at the spigot used by the Scouts during a three.

day campout at the bear, bct said moeftoring By Wes Hills after the campout showed no coetamlution in and Tim Cattney N[4Ncewwogasx Swanson said the spill occunsd Sept 13, Dree Air Force workers exposed to highly f 19 hen a four mem')er team west lato at the base to take laventory of radioacthe powder last year at Wright Pa'ter-

[3 e materials stered in several benels.

rall non Air Force Base wuhed the material from

'And the first bartti they opened contained l

themselves at an outdoor faucet ued the next Americium 241," be seld.

day by an encarapment of elght Boy Sctnt troops, the Alt Force said Wednesday'Faltborn, D*

The men thee drose to a house in i

where one of them washedia a home shower, before returning to the base to decontaminate cant amostats of radjoactive materials" spre4 themselves,the Air Force said.

Ing through the building. Dey recapped the barrel and left the building, Swauoc sal 3, l

De men "did some things that we consider leaving 2& proteche cWag and gas stupid, in hindsight," sejd Lt. Col John W, 5 " k8188Id'-

Swauoa, chief of radiat$on oncology and med-De two who opend G4 barnt wueet leal physics at the base bospital.

wes.ing hoods and were contaminated oe the Both the FBI and the Air Force are conduct-bacia of their necks and handa. Swinson said.

Ing criminallovestlgations lato the storage and A third man wu contaminated oc his handa,

hand 11og of the h!ghly redloactive material when helping the oQers out of ther clothlaf,,.

Americium 241,"prior to and ther" the spill, he sald.

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i according to a letter by Air Fo(ce Secretary 1

LC. Aldridge Jr. to Gov. It1 chard Celeste.

Speaking oc behalf of the A!r Force, Swan-son and Dr. John L. RJcd,'the bue's radjatsoo safety of ficer, confirmed 9dednesday informa-tion obtafned by the De Del &,Ne=1and De Awda/Neraldp r sources about the spitt, he band!!ss and Scouts' poedble esposure. It was the Att Force's fint disclo-surt of many detalls of the spG Swanoe connrmed the ;niee men wuh d gp.t7 74Y c./a/

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Swsnaon said all four then got into as A..F:rce van,lookjeg for a place to tion o" found. He sajd, however, that DAYTON DAILY NEWS gl e wash. Americlun 241 can be wuhed "Pod AmeddnD imis" wm r**

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' from th? akinb but !! logested or in, mrN #4 dottwtod froan $e e.mp, '

haled.It la card nogenic, e xperts asy.

but wert "I and well be

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Since there was no water at the low nedepted stal Protec.

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• bundias. "Day, stopped off at a mud puddle.," he sald, and waat*d off their Wh1, coccMag that wind or rain ble Mf kas u% umrdag could have removed some of the Ameri.

' hada. $'.!!) detecdcg raliadcu on to Gary haecedn assistant

themaeftes, they weet to the nearest cium, Swanson aald he,wp setlaned gg stM C h e s

Iaccet -W one at the Scout camp _

Gm had bMo no contamination. Be learned of the' accident last January RJed, who emphasized be becarne cause the Air Force believed there wu when be received a letter frota Defense

the base's radjetion safety officer after no sigaincaet contarrJnatlos of the SMretuy Caspar %'doktpr.

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' the spul, snJd the uncontam!cated man camp, he majd, the Scouts were etter N Ju. 2 IMtw unnd Cabu h e riperated h spigot for W other three.

notified of the Inddent.

A 1 The spigot Swacaco sam, was fne-He aajd the Air Force sloo smo,ditored

,gg wu contM duty wiela

the bu!Mlag sad dM "not represent a f anadtap and drala d ceto a rock and the Fairborn house and the poste the huard to the pub 5c or to personnel oo

h scetothe p team took to it, and found no

& base."

S Kid anM be unders' ands at least one contam! cation.

However, Air Force Secretary Al-

'of the mes chuked himself after wash.

Swanson chanetertad it u an "es.

drMp sam in a Much 2 lettu 2 Ce-

tog and stlU ooced some contamiestico tnmely serious" spil, but aaN lt never teste that be apported more prompt

. ta his oak.

threatened anyoet outalde Bulldlag nodncation cd state ofdctals after such

, One of the four had to take bla m1fe 4%0.He dirnted the cleasyp.

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to a medical appointment that d.sy, and Americium Inhsted Aldridge wrote that "our toveedga-

, so the others drove aim to his home le does have determined that the Ameri-Fairborn, Swanson aald. Rjed sam be Rject coentmed that one Air Force dem tavolved la the optu was improp-

has been told that upoo ant ing home, employeeinhaled some Americium and eriy accepted octo the bate and that a

• the man tom his wife "not to touch is "bas!cally stuck with it for the rest of serin of Madocal Impropf udou his ufe.,

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l hja" and removed bla clothes, puttleg occurrW prior to and after b eptu.

hm in a wsahing machjne. He aajd the Accordog to sde

$fle uterature, ne Air Fora OffW of Spedal toned.

• man then tcok a shower The o(ber Ameridem 241 la a highly touc, syn

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thetJc, radjonedve eleaset used la t'*

tansdpdon, and p' Joe could n-diochemicai research and eintrocje de-sult depending on the tavsedgattoo Mces. la its powder tors, it can be nsulta.

Informatico avadable since the spUl thrw returned to 6 base and show-shows

.l ered there, he sam.

E Whes W dr aan was opened, the R1ed saJd the team supenisor workars' rsmHs deteciar went "o'!

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chnked the camp spigot Sept.19-the ~

scale" ad alsborne radia$os la the

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' %,~ was later steasured at I mil-day the Scouts arrived w and majd er, under questionleg, that be found. d-dasecluted os er a wide area. It emits E.,

coetarnlutloo. How ever, Ricd concp alpha aM pmma radlados, and la ocA

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ed, that check may have beta of hti;e

, cocsidered dangerous oc the akle. ta-Doo times the NRC Unilt for a restricted use because the detector the man used dde W body It la extnmely harmful:

ans, accordag 2 Ge NRC, likety would not gJve an accurate reed.

mioute quantides cas cause cancer, ac, leg in a moist ans.

cordieg to radiadoo health authorides.

E More material escaped from the Scout troops from f%)o, taidr.a.

Representatives of Wright Patterson drum wben it was reopened Oct. 4 dar-Kentucky and Machigan occupied the and the Nudear Regulatory Commle. -

leg a cleanup attempt, acd one employ.

camp 5ept.19-21.

Woo, wblch lovesdgated the inddent, M f ahaled some, accordog to na NRC have said that only an losignificant reprt.

Spill kept quiet amount of contamlesuon was found 5 see the m sad m NRC s Onin near Bulldlag (MO.

of tanedgsdena, which looks for p

$waraon said the four tearn mern.

The NRC, which evenees the Air tectial crimlaal violadoss ef NRC regt bers "elected not to notify an) body pg.s handDag of redloacthe materi-lauoes, lavastigatad tbe splu, accordis t other than their immediate rupeni-ela, uruer this yest criddted the Air to the NRC. Sources have anM the ge-

, sors about the spill and the aest day Force for act immedately repetleg slu of the NRC probe were referred te returned to Bulldjeg 4%0 to chMk fta the U1 Jusdce Departraeet fer furthe-the spiu' o uployne who causd the laveetigados.

coetamlution level. De Sept. 22, g gw

$ anson saw, they tried saruccouful-spu were not tuted for laternal con-5 Members of & Air Force Ramo, ly os their own to cleaa lt.

taminatioe antil Sept. 30,1984, accord-Laotope Committes, whkh le resposal naally, he aald, a super tour "begna leg to Charla Friedman, enstreames*

'ble for Air Force acthities levolvts, to feel very uncomicrtable stout al.

tal health, manager at the Department NRC ticeued materiala, briefed Af lowirig this situation to cootleue" and

,, ggy a Mound Plant la Miamle-dridge and Weinberger about the ep; reprted the spill Sept. 26. Top bue burg. w ben the en2 ploy ees w ere taken and dirnted a series of Air Force wid command learned of it thal day, for the testa. He said such a check changes to improve comptLasco wi' Swanseo said the Scout camp area wouM han been made withle bours NRC reguladona.

osa enoaltord "with the right testru.

had a simnar espussre occuned at E Three of the team mtsbete, t e

entake Oct I aed no coeMna.

Mound cluSag the redlados safety officer p,

chsige when the apu happaed, we Celest nottfled dadpucw tan yur..d nmond in any dudes Tavolving NRC Ikees i

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E ne cleanup, ladudag diam tung W contaminated bu!Wlas.

ccst the Air Force betwees $430

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.'a%stne said he and other perests learned A C'a.v' r11*cW.s Bey Seest e mp e* mrad

'41. 3 radicactise pnWer. In a tralldicg 61 a er the spill frvis stones in The Plain Dester r

mite f e:i the or'sr. ate. shich is on the base.

r*.* r ;ht P~e. :a.*.ir re-c? '*r : t's d y c"ar Three e orters lett tWr contaminated ctothes k Thursday and yesterday.

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,.1 had avey calls % pareints who a*e to e a*5 tgbut u*-1 a sfugot nest the carnesWe r;id morf y thrt he ces r1 di-tn*r;d Nut

.etr hre. said Donald $wan a

,p,,t,. said J tone _ -1 dont think I m dis-t.W W: T' Pr$ r

• pap-8 *-9.- y r-ra *s y+esman at hght Passerson.

surbed tabout the spillt These Peo0Ie haS' who were.

"ra *ir:1 n p*rar*s committee snactica of the Jf.icene sei$ the scouts. *o inwd tv-swe ceiger counters and scientitle measuring SE'ge s to fill =>'ar jugs. *?rre not tafd of the deures They lutow if they hase a dangernes g ~ g [P spot. 5-i esi4 th-re vras no retten to bran's 5 tuatiott If15cy had one.they souldel haw ict e

Jh an e ts them *;ecause 'st 3es a needless sorry '

us on the base.

f 4otsts iceludtrC Johastone's son, and

• • o adults camped at the b9ta '*;t.1921. IJM Sun Ssid 'Trument chae*.s. so'l seenpfea ~t Seests use'! tha catepaste when sisttlest the Air They mere amoig.'03 Eoy Sene.s frae *tcht s fa'S$'-us: "P--t'a's Hth enere swai-*

rorce t!=wo a at tvright Patterson Jone tone troops using the campsete.

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ht,,o,e hi, e, his joh,,,, d, PUCO dec;sion x,,g,, 3,,,,i,,o,y c,,,,go, cwrything in h.s power to hat the has prev'tried a at ch.sace of a 1 understand that Can.Rschard F serians nuclear accident in this opera son of the Perry plant until 2 country in the nest 19 3eart based

'rui> nable esac astion plan is con-E ric<c has actcpted a.- c--..ca o an anticipa ed stumber of ines-structed cf shich se are all siede etatean in Thomas Cheeta d: rector dents and scrams. which has aw are.

es' the 15abhe 1*tilities Comme *stan If it is act pewable to derase verk at *>h.o to accept a ramed narva-already been eveeded a plan and it may not be.tien the Therefore. af me are to hase this P ant, se snust base an carwatson plant should ant be allowed to 1 *n plan en case of a niselear ac-'

f ptarit arrt to ter nimale ary elTor s plan that ss cornpreherisive and opente. We hase already shown detit :.1 the Perti nuclear p'vaer that we een law without the plant.

truly workabic, and shoch is to halt the plant 3 operatso'L understood and arrepted by the basing gone through the past sev-As a nes parent who is con-cral seats without it being aveil-torned ab sut the state of the sorld many cit. tens ube depernd spos it abic to meet shat was the amict-that m) daughter is entering. I acn and by those who have Ibe great distrened by Chema's recommeft-responsiktsty to carrw at out. The pated need lt is s per'hte enough ts bare the

• • atican and by Celeste's apparent plan which has been prescrited to plart operating at all-tet us ascid the governor does not corne close e ilhngness to accept it.

rishng all me have.

Perry has esperienced resey to mechar.hese errteria The creators of it;e Perry pfant HARRIET u EIMIANN St.fVE pre *.' pas-deugn flaws. **inci-

. dents malfonttenteg and hutsar.

and o.staation plari are not snan-Clewland error. Esen the consersatise dated to protect our health and safety. The Emerr.or s?. t mostd

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THE ptA'N DEAIM, ha0* CAY hoytVetri ; in; Two feared exposed to radiation at hospit.al Dy TOW ORECKEARIOCE stan wn,rta Two techniciartt.may hate been etnosed to radioattne material in a laboratory at Rainbow liabirt' and Children's llo!p:tal, a hospital omenal said yestda).

Dr Ro'J?rt M. Kl reman asid the technicians were told Friday that an inspection team found higher thar, routine radia'Jen in a fourth-floor laboratury.

Asked if the rad.ation mas dan.

gerou:, V.llegman nid: "I *ould say no, but you ma) hate someone who nauic s!y yes '

Kliep.an, dirt etor of the neoe.a.

ta' m(tabitt.sm 110. spid. *l don't feel there has been a major risk ta the technicians There's no real y ay it can get ir.to, th?ir todies The caperiments are to further the workers' stoves end spread to other stud) of h)pegl;temla in babies, parts of the laboratory, which ul;l ut,(less they drank it ne red.otetitit? eas found by a gigggmanga,d.

be cleaned today, Klictman said.

The mat absorbed radHective Kliegman paid the woman techil-t

• I s,. t c les hat r liquid. Wt was e dnposed W, a, dans "seemed u set'* mhen he the lab tsire ', car.I The niain it roubnel) done. Workers 7 ear tathed atth them day, but indi.

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[ians orkrd ghts arid overecats when sor!.ing cated they would help mith the h

wal. ligeid co..t:.ran: tratiun and with radioactive material, Klieg, cleanup man teid.

cirbst 14 The technicians did not work Tne liqu;d. art of a gtueose mis.

The radsoactivity from the n.at eith patients, and the re uan no tre, l' usM ntra enously in rats apparently aas picked up on the danger lo any patient, he, aid-E ~ of i

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tw PsAN cx. urn. stwoAY, POU83tn 8.1987 Spill probe focuses on Mth-grade dropout 6y ktfM C. EP$TEll:

roree He compared himself to Karen Silk-But' nuelcar regulators seted and hf. ART C~TH L/M wooc. a nuclear industry shistleblower stoely to do anpM about their sw r esu r:.

sho died in a car crash as she sent to roblems with Ma>nes, arresting ineet m'lth a ces spaper reporter.

Im only after a decade el run ina

Mrselear gangster.y,e tele hone rings lie snufd rather talk about his patents over his deppy methods.

NEWARK,O.- Tl Joh C, llan net for irradiatirg diamonds to enhance titr in feet, government scarces said antwers, the 'r,h t.' r'eans at only as a Joke ulue. ha Nnd -11e done thin,s with 4+

a Therd s fear that Hapes would Authoritit sten't 1.iug Irg rnands that no nther man has done.** he impreper dispose of ha rnaterials Ha)mes hu bet n ident fled at the seurce 5,,d prompte the amu gling of the t

of a radieaetne sub:tance that mat sme lie wanted to tell of being wriuen up in radiosethe waste to 'rigtt Patter.

gled into t!" munetens area at Wnght Pat- "bocks and journals all oser the surnd" non in the first plaec.

terson Alt l o'ee E :e it. eventually conta-lie santed to boast of an insention a The friend, Jernes Le*it, an Air minst:( ar. er..irc tild.n:, promptmt an nuclear batter) he said lasts W >rars Forts:crficer resper.sible far radio-Air Foret cogerup and a 11 rnillion But motti) he wanted to talk of his fond..logietl safety at tt,e base, allegedly cleanJp. It ned is tarcatening to enWe nus for Amersetum, r$erium, Plutonium -

"alleg:.I,y and imp v tris" recened esen a gene.t? in t f.deralinvestiga.io,n itit s radion tae, he seems to like it sternes' A.menetum x stora e.

But ha)h,;, is to "tactear gagner. He

• l love it I respect it," he said "Rut i Rut Hages dismissed the notien la a 10',h grade dropcut vuose tinkering p,,e no rcar,,rgg -

that any smuggtly teok place, it e

Americium tuinn diarnends green, mas all above beards, he ses He eith diam".>rd; ar d r.3:artous radicar@th substinrer let 1: M yeral rut ins si

$,.r.unt turns thern blur. Either say, h;s recalled stuffing ts.o 3bgellon for a heflier drums with Amerief am.centamin-nucle.it retch 'e?

p',an was to self diainonds For Ifl ye. r.;, th > compial.ed s'> cut ha p ice. He rWe thouunds of nern, he said, sted rags and parer tostl?, load M

.them it.to a V n ard dnvirt down sloppy mett.:r.s. tut rnosed s1culy to da bat pner enuch rnone).

ansthenc abe.! it, V'nar they did hed He was a turr at a deth in the cluttered.lettritates "O and 75 t) Wr.f,M. Pat-radisreine en. tar.ier. on nn 1.0 p e 'r.),

eCec ef hir <pht.inel home here Spread le f.o!6.

l it it o', rte ne) fro:.. th* l'nviror trer.t: Pro-al3nt th( top were gemstone rirLt. gold

. It tas eles*r and lest erfenthe 4

I tettien ArnWs Wp?,3'unt to ele:n it up.

• alches, Jemeters' tools - and. betmeen thsa esing a more app opriate Ha: n s his a twcrd, tes - fer raakirt his fingers. an aspirin sired tablet of nurlear waste dur.sp. n'.

') Flats, fals stn. e et' c: cut hs aetbacs to it: Americium Nl. lie said he took h from a meer Meerehead, K) u ere he Nrete:. IL lt: e., t.t met ulon srit kc detector, had disposed of two c:,ctr crams is Rut ths'. e n * ' ;t ht vaMed te tall b uhr.

smoHec,. his nail bitten hands the etrt;' IB7k,1 ; 4:i.1 about )F s r t r.N 13' i n in e.iN, n't i'W i e dr e ter inuch c03ce,he salc),

Ea)ncs anc he sinMrd four to tralt a,1:- a i t r.t:'s t' t rn Pt - :

,m,, slid tLe 1:ble', around his desk for p!:*aT or t*e s.r., e.u : elear teren, he rW v s' the fall of LI 3 Air i y.,hau D ' Aroersetum laden v alte t"." he s t' cettfirf r*dicartite J

una his lahv.itery, he sa: trying to dm.

ersitiials, and n.at.sted te Crite nm'. rate, nhouid Lt.L tme cauwd such a 12 $rghbP&thrso.) s.tl(ut any probteni ait urighel'atterson. nen if 0 cre Q M !)on6ns art amtr of it wJ 81one had been encap.

700 say, "Tri rotnf to hildiN I

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~Tt a danrer of vierxttse rnatert l is sith a b:r...% ar4 r/ ?dj would r ' 9 ? not ti vt,' hc hd. ' b.it the fu op'c 1

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tu raintr~ health o ! meas u dh reseren.cn! tr.rcr make bl'd.n'. s here ht frier 4.14= n.

clear that federal authorities came to accepted the drum: anc ewpies of I

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... I asked Jim (4wis if they eculd over to inspectnn. citing "the seri-

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Ole paper *Jrt to obtain permis-had transported it between his sien from nuclear regulators to laboratory. sescral residences. 4 f; % rF m h 4 ','.9 s.- Ai handla rsdicatine substances suchfarm.and a fare of busiriets are D. M 4,7-as Ar :ncium, which is a l') prod, Abt 30 ofneers - FBI agents, s

uet cf nuetta* reactors It was ateut ther, that Haynes, NitC inspectors, arid state and thing wrong with my ' facility I wa, local authorities - raided his lousy with papersork My tab se er sith regulators began, laboratory and an attoriate's home trouta spotless it looked like a he:petaf 4xumer.tr fro:n the Nuclear Rrtu-in fleath, a subuttr The FBI operatirt room.*

late y Ccm-tission 5Fow arrese4 Ha>nes for unauthorited lla>nes, she said he quit senoot Ha.cer' Ors' runan ess e during pvsesse and use of a redinactne out of boredom, has no formal Dewrrte lii$. when an insper-cia'.eri:1 and for l int to nuclear i

training ben s' l.ryr:f rer-et ecur.t >ske refulatcrs lie obtained a diptorna from a laborate, itser. led llaynes' per.

N ents seired 10 curies of Amer;.

Califernia school knovin a' tt e sont el h?m', overtapored to radia-tion. h:rr;es tiso improperly ciun. The solume w ar no rnore American Cemolegical Institute, stcrte r:t..c !Ra me?crials and th.:n a half doren suf ar eu'rs --

then joined llaynes Bros.the Iw.

kept po:s records. Ti.ree (ether Americium radiation is 1.000 times ily jestlett business, but left to intpectient in 19*C and 1981 more potent than a t> pical dia os.

Linker sith diamonds,

• 1'm just a self-taught be:10ard lie procedure in the hospita so turned up simi!ar prcb! ems in Ifl. t ha n'c;Pgr reraf ators ever. su:h a small quanuty could neientist." he said. gnaning, fot;ni rat h:77 e I.'.' deflutted on be extrerr.ely hatardout

• l'd rather do scientific reseen i 14t'r,it.e poternrrent conducted thar amhing the. I want to ta a his mort;ty, tF. rl:rd to p: 3re restrictitat ce ta lleer.r? he he'ci ra. ation tune): of hit property.

seputt I am a seiertirt... F.in.

r finor.f* *sabstantially greater con, stm and Matmc CVile t'itn't since Iple - te ewid no lone!y tan. tatiot" than duren;listinet hcip face pa ersork. Of courre; a lfC! sur-v<r th trMari !; hc could on sc). The g.ot ernnent. e t Madarre urie died as a resa!! e, ry tr.M:y1f: had p:M cff hit frem Oak Ridge Natlertal I.abora.

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):PA s Superfund. spent $385.000 m::#.

45 rtt.... ;t; cf Ar riflurt far cleaniet it up Thouth Haynes now hr t tes: th, th(y !:ter disc:N tcC in Ine: sch his wife and sin children In Newark, at the start of his Jiir rr Ye'.

in Ac. e:', Id. Esp *. see:ht 19 cyrrarcatation sith Arnerseium ponder, tre family lived in a ea et! Nr hef t.!r.' bet the Nth' trs!!$r ner: to hie ste(Ileforeter) 1 h' t it.t t e:(. '. min:tc hi "You eser see a White t'astle t

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res*er. *i'rtev!r cor.*2mir.!!)c*."

tha=nbur;er jeirt)? That's what et facil. :

etr.r.cly on ts.* is53ra'ory's writ!.

losted hke. The whole house was rir.is, thos:r ora.rs, and r.ect it w 6 deal fnr radionetne yv; enutd sers,b it cri rci! e s'y. pill, n aterial. If nu mould hate a s fit ::.

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Ct " i. a V. v t r t' sp e F e Y fe tr July 10fi. lir.tner pitaded as a t.r.';, a-f h i h:: sert:$

anc tster p':t:. c-to o re:'W giit.) to fra shirt, friso informa-tnr. to the hnt. A jut e fin?d him tra9 l-@.t r; ".

t.tt.M:anc'tt:4 r.ced hin.to rne L/ Ar.: o. a? fs'lew:nP p:r.

3ra-r prehtion.

Ha;r ruh kri ri c!e:.t.t. up

• Ha in; pr.et Mr. lla) net." aald The t if cM t.f h:m to ty ce to a Ohiis top radiotogical sarrty offi.

det y o n etus. rk r r>ots.4 l* st esal. Robert Quilbrt. "st was not L4 e h' rar.u sr pt '* er

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sor.? thing pt can escuse, but it beet w,a a e eth:'r )ms c: n understand m o%-

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9. t r p$ F fety Hi hH th.c 6 theme and a s ay of ena, tle 34 b : h a. '  : r requi s: tkt tr!I; 72 k. c't con-doir.th:n;s But the 8);,ttom hre et he unla'ec batie radiation pro *e:

tan ma".r g..W'J' ec1". e n, v. d *$c sat tic

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.R to g;rfo.t the At fut lit)nes. be blarnes his hm1 decertes't.e.:: / tecordt:J to a arrest in in on his stoft ness, s!!

i 19t$ Kht? d:rusier.t segred by ryht - but in handhng paperwork, Riebart C. !* ' a n-th ? t f.'t.rys act Arrerwiwm.

• ! ju't want to de research !

directo e 'is/."" l.f 1.3) o ! tolds t' fil t' for h?'e pu rv er'.;. Tha'. s a' the only the til. t: f.

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• • c *** ~ t & **c k c = coverup that rc:.1; slaca:a i. w how cawe::.

Frejudice the Justice Dep.rtment it took on expose to gcl u?.ra we sh&u.':1!;xe MdM. *,

9 Ianc>uc.uont~sa d o W cs a u reccioed kwa !!.a Aidorce as a srcs,JuJ be.

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operating picted.ae.'

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- G.iry Holt.und, a'ide km pen.r P

America said the group would rwhly pervets of"hKI scouts who camped at the base last fall after one spell about the ancident.

Forre base comen.rder or the secre. radiok; scar omccr. stor(d at is a e

hi:h secunty mm. boa 6 area' SP "Weh doeric this even though me tary sof defer.so agree math the Aar Forte that there

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~We r..d to find out if tk.r s.

a was no radiation," said Boy Sec,4 1.c or a coverup 12t:1 re.!!y shcaald err s.minsuc.n alW anr, raute t

g ggyrgec,gyggges spehesman Barclay Bellas 'We Lsc mever base occused H took an v.hetho this thre ten. put,lic ad IGMrVB;1tl usee ee reason to be starised. but me expoac to get uht me ske.3d base heJ 't.'said Hollas.J y

ment ihe poseets to know."

received from the Aar Force as a E3Has the Air Forde coa.p!eted stasidaed operateric procedure-the t.ask of cicamieg up hsidinpr 0 Base employees weshed off the utwr* the Amerer.um w;n s.t.;rre WASHWG'VN - Goo Rschard F.

radicartne poutier at a pt.dJte and Fd HopLans, she gmcreta polecy Centsae paaerday ordered 4. des to a mater spwot nr.sr the Boy Scout tapert on eenironmes.tal nr.atters, llebert Quithn. state r;istcjic,1 snet with too aides ta dams the saff t-cmter, pLns to st>it ite Lse le=cetagste whether e ners stao tran.

en:npe,ste. Aar Force omc:45 saad suoe >csterd:y. t! a da,satched.

320ndaj to get ~en assar.rtce t'. sat aperted rad.coctswe matenal across only loir lesels of radiatiesi mese team of health, leJ* do.ger pre-the) L.< f!ntshed the prtject.arJ sf central Oh-s overe tbn a decade a;,,,

detreted cats.d the twildaric =here the-Lter : exatti.s wht it ir parednc.s and ensa.antarfital offi-to Wright-Patterson Air Force B.se the ivorkers ti.d opened a druin enn-raah to invesugate II ce cerstral g4.as ue.. T:n pig 14. mL d s.r j

spa a traal of contasunatmst stase officials one of those it.votsc4 John C. flaynes. Ihe Larkso; as acs-for their esplanalson of att this' Thoesch the tenne mas e mystery to tatrungthe Amenoiens in the transport told reporters he County Jescicr mhe arrart;r'd to

[] Was a trail of er.ruennstion C W re 9 w e.tst;.tc. 6.o mete the Acacrectum stored at left by thi} t cn! of it e mattnal 1.1;j' St w the p.dfrei c q.

...J detw the rnaterial in a san or truck Wnght Patt nco r;.ther tha ter.d at ekut 100 avle; fi1T ?L, rk. where 3,

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fatnn Neustk. O. to tra base nc.r to.s smore espcasive and mere u,v.cs hd sesen.1 rwt sc:. 3i*.b tbc L. h t,f r s Att. 3 D M : ;

Daytc e along Irnent.tc 20 to Ir.ter.

appropriate los tenet nwtear s le I,. ener handhr,: r( the haurttous r.

[A.h. d,,, t!.e Lie l.e Celette yesterday also dap tched damp, s.id yesterd.) he LJ dos <=

puder, to Wrg.t!'.t:crzn. whcie f.r.g.,t45 '

state 5 omru'.s to dctr euune 'he estc1.s of a the snaten.1 to the b se 10 lo 12 a inced. James Lsis, the ta.c cetc.;,..,, est.J linb rd S...L

d. rester of the state l'nntaura.:.4 I year-lee: sle.nup by '.he Aar Force.

Dears era Protrttien Agency, to ogect uth which for months kept secret the He aho N ned the autlac f i Wrght l'auttson taase cor sr.; der newerity of two spitts of the toxic causire the fir:t spill by pu.i.-tura.;;

Col Steyteo Li'ar. in pre;ue.tca maanosal. AmentmanEl. at the be:.

4 5'.*1ct (,f snid! containers of r.,;;.

Iwr a erwtir4 cf Cdest. miJ..*jr and paper towels desard with An ra-Force ofr.caans se the fa!!efIges Decentanunauon e! Torts snel ded nisat pocs.

The n.uor41 Boy &out or nv-

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tion seed troops sould contit.Je destnstisse of a stor; ige twld.s,; 61.

said "I t!ia.* et'..e r.0L" carmrg at the ba.c.

rest of $1 enelleva Deferisc Secest.e, Cos.fiJ.: ual Ni c! car Re.t.L20./

Rstta Ctec er Cmtcn stse N:s Caspec Weinberger. an a lecer thee Comminion d.,c..aents cu.ni 4 was air.o.g rampers 11 w.*...d to Celesse. ctier,ctertred the spell es Wednesday revealed sescralles.h after the spaII. s.ed ate t; ar,f, *C assner cf Air Fwee p.. v.r.el 3.1 t"r.f.t-A:r 1v.w: C.dal tJi *c.c.t L a ta Members of Celeule's s.l.el.nLtr ases pennerday cupressed stoc't ds.,

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Force cover.up and letter fre.a charce to hwe yet'she said -!f the u-

-w cf sfe r.dowctise e Weisterger, said Gery }L;Iland, as

• 1f *e weren't hed so. me were Enew abost this. thy didn't it.e.*

assistaat le the gewernor.

The Air Force. which has certainly misled. sa.d Holland.

turn the boys emey so }ou avoldrn "becuae the information reportoi bast a bunch of up.

• ps.entar n y2 to den.ngalay the tworf up by The Plain Dmlee was not forth-by pensnag the b&see on a lanesed agasang tross proper off'.cish, the Aar I

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The man identified as the source of a radioactive i

I substance smuggled into the munitions area at Wright-Patterson Air Force j

Base reportedly has a history of being questioned for his handling of l

radioactive substances.

l Nuclear regulators have been concerned that John C.

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i Newark, who experiments with diamonds and hazardous materials, has been

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When radioactive contamination was found on his property, money i

from the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund was used to clean

.t up.

q And Haynes has a record for making false statements to the Nuclear i

Regulatory Commission, the newspaper said.

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enhance their value, is accepting no blame for the leak at l

Wright-Patterson.

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told the newspaper, "but the people handling it."

i Some people, however, question Haynes ' handling of the materials.

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A government source told The Plain Dealer that a friend's fear that i

Haynes would improperly dispose of his materials prompted the smuggling i

of the radioactive waste to Wright-Patterson.

l The friend, James Lewin, Air Force officer responsible for radiological safety at Wright-Patterson, allegedly "illegally and

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improperly" received Haynes' storage, the newspaper said.

l Haynes, however, insists the material was openly taken to Wright-Patterson.

I "I don't feel responsible for the radioactive contamination at the l

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he said.

"The government should be responsible.

I asked Jim j

Lewis if they could get rid of it with their waste, and he said, 'No problem.'

"The only problem was they didn't get rid of it. I think they j

forgot they even had it,"

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Celeste reportedly has ordered an investigation to determine whether people who transported radioactive material acrces central Ohio more than 10 years ago left a trail of contamination.

Although the route is not known to state officials, one of the people in olved in the transportation of the material to Wright-Pat?mtson Air Force Base near Dayton said he drove in a van from j

Newark along Interstite 70 and then to I-75.

Celeste also sent a ate investigators to the military base to determine the extent of a yearlong decontamination effort by the Air Force, which kept the severity of two radioactive spills secret for months. The toxic material, americium-241, spilled at the base in the I

fall of 1986.

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Robert Quillen, the state's radiological program health director, 00id he spent the day being briefed by base personnel on the accident.

Gov. Richard Celeste met with state environmental and health officials Friday to discuss whether laws were broken when the radioactive etericium-241 was transported from Newark to the base.

i Celeste said he wanted mori information on how the spill was handled by Air Force personnel and how the state can insure the spill hcs been properly cleaned up to sake sore there is no threat to public cofety.

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A state official toured Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Monday to assess areas affected by a spill of radioactive material that occurred last fall.

Robert Quillen, the state's radiological program health director, said he spent the day being briefed by base personnel on the accident.

Gov. Richard Celeste met with state environmental and health officials

?tiday to discuss whether laws were broken when the radioactive americium-241 was transported from Newark to the base, Celeste said he wanted more information on how the spill was handled by Air Force personnel and how the state can insure the spill has been properly cleaned up to make sure there is no threat to public safety.

upi Ii!io-87 10:33 aes Southwest Ohio News in Brief By United Press International i

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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (UPI) _ The parents of some Canton Boy Scouts who camped at Wr.ight-Patterson Air Force Base last f all af ter a spill of radioactive americium-421 want their children tested for possible exposure to radiation.

Three workers exposed to the radioactive material told base officials that they washed at an outdoor spigot later used by the Scouts. The parents are demanding that the federal government pay for tests to see if the boys inhaled or ingested any of the cancer-causing substance.

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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (UPI). A spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the agency made 14 checks of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in eight years, but failed to find two dru=a of radioactive a=ericium-241 stored at the base.

Jan Strasma, spokesman for the NRC's regional office in Chicago, said agency inspectors found only minor violations during inspections between 1978 and 1986, i

Newark jeweler John Haynes says he took two drums of americium waste to the base 10 to 12 years ago.

1 A drum of the illegally stored americium was spilled last September inside a building at Wright-Patterson, releasing the radioactive material at levels 1 million times the NRC limit for restricted areau.

Strasma said the drum may have been missed because the inspections 1

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Rep. Edward F. Feigham. 011.

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Dy ImITH IMTIIN the Caneral Ae:o.: ting 0Tce He also WN"W ent:c,ted ce L: lear Refatatory Ccrnets-sw wmtAs si:1's rote in Wens.ng such "a tirl.erer the si.bstar.ces.ini3M818 hi"* "D

wid foNI WASHINCTON - Ohio's governor, lit two senators, and a ecytessman took steps yesterday toward investigating a reported The re art:d Air Fcree coset up f

Air Force coser up of two radioactne ie:IMS a.'.eged p'ans to keep the ecntam-spilla last fall at Wr:ght Patterson Air ic; tan sceret fmm ou's.ders and respocsi-been de*cet:d at the scouta' on base er Force Base near Daston.

t'e agenetes site. Sa:d Air Force spokesman Don 5 Air Force emelais, rneanwhile, decidM

• We're septy respondir.g to exprnskr_

rei tan said the incide,nts 15csed "a to ofter tests for radioactive contarrination dsta ing Pa:teri of 13,t ;;j,, gercree, cor.cern by the parts *.t*

to 319 Boy Scouts who had camped nce' r2cet t) NRC omeia's." Icaung hi i "cet Celeste. in his letter to Weinberger. c the spill ute Cov. Richard F. Celeste, in a letter to ett::d th,:t this teay not be an is:!ated leired the Air Force for thostr.g -

g apparest lack ef concern and reisetar Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.

ecmplatned th:t the PJr.tagon had "failed Fefhan sa,id it t:ot the NRC ne.:,y a scrk ath,0i00 to rescht etnifor.rw to deal f:enest!y with the state."

deca.e of ruir,s 4th lla)nes to c4 tis Celeste demanded more Information and s'c;p> experin ectation Anth Arnerieiom.

lie noted an verelsted lecident urged the Air Foret to trace a serend con-Feighan qJesti:ned nuclear regatators, seek in wh;ch the base excasated as tainer of Americium 241, which he said ability to control the use of such sat-landfill bef:re the Ohio Ensirec=>er baill app?srs to be missing.

sta nets.

Protectics Agersy had a chance to rc

. At least two containe-s, sere srnogg'ed satRples-

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foued a hatard:ws Sutre nee Ch}omt

ese, pmpting an ongolog imt stisso:

-The Airetwium lacident la r.ot as

'We have two ba. sic lated trundent.* said Ed Hepbas, the g r:r m than inus 19 Nr.C w, err.or i nurmenui asse. It's r e I

QUCSl/0/75,* Who is at /ault?

tt;t Har,es' handhng of nae' ear caterials a larger pattern of ncn comptfance a

.a a c: ear and present daeger, said uceoorratae cest -

And who is at risk?'

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bau:n, D4. and John Glenn. D-0. said cto a base storm. area more than a det, they vaald held a tearieg. probably in ade ago as a f.nnt to jeweler John c.

Dayton. oo Nov 21, La es kre 7he pcui.

Ilaynes, of Ne.' ark. O. Hatnes had expen.

ble dangen to those es; pond ar.d the muted with the Armericiura to change the actitss cf the Air Tocce sad the Noeneer color of diamonda to enhance their salue Regulatory Co amissKin in deatq with the lie had enl6tM the aid of a friend. who

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tas the hese's rahle al safety offiwr' The serstors. in a joint statement, lo sinrer the substaan im the base.

added: -Tte c'ec enta of this story may se After the first spill, hate ernployees stran;er than flettes. bct the elemera of oahhed the radicartne gnader o/T near a fear is gute real... We hase too basic Boy Scout ramp al the bee. It has cost tiJestic'ts. Y,to is at faatt'.bd who ls at saarly $1 reillion to clean up the spill and r1M' dlsistantle the t>uilJirg ultere at happened.

The Air Fer;t dco m;!aned its anwee-trest to te4 the B2) kotts. re;eateg ear-

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mt ken ruered M the Gonrnmerd sourres, ackonviede-g n ea d fa tabel,ing me meMal and ite.

5ttssma abo uld that in Augud tint John Chartes H told aue.

only a montli beton me ned y,,r,0sposing W h in a towial

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tiW the help of a fnend at the base.

snents' at fryht Patterson corgern-8"f3g e

all pen m-Authont.es dedmetteve ilsynet 14 Hamt shrpr.wrda 8Crvposed costr u '

When Haynes' friend James "We talked to all the pcrtineret E Wrtsht.Patt s

inis, Wnght Patterson's radioiegi people." he said. tbut) we found reander at the tirN.$drib' eel safety officer. denied Hapes' nothig to subs'.antiate the allegs.

Fos Jr now a brigadier 8eners I assertion, inwstgators d or, ped the (m*

=acteetjvely,lthhrld idormation usquiry, federal sourtes need.

NHC ometals gpparently oMed to from nuckar reguhteet beliese denials of the radio (efical This ha ned when federal and g gg g g

oTkte. a respeited rnemtef o his state ofDe In already belleted a comrmunity, rather than llames, a. Te as, bl etlevel Pee 1085 raid on lisynes' he.ne had son.'et bk k failed to coefxate all of his emeri.

lanctanding thorn in the side o(ree-handlin di clum, with shich he tanted to atlef uhters, who stood seeused of ghirt alm mlsicd the N t the color - and enhance the enlae false statements to the gewtrant'ht W Defense 5eeretary Caspar W.

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L' & attortry involmd in the rat 4 imhed are bebg themsehes fee of the aceldent, portra)ing it (Tn$g e at that tier wM net sure they not not havint esplored liaines' claim i

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drvras of americiurn-241 la high.

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stuff M Wrigt Patterson for eens.*

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a'iother tip before esplorig the eun-gm ing authorities he h>d tekee two nettien tdseen llapses and the drurns or americiumH1 to Wrich6 amerveium at WrigN t'atteren, and

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$g*by attem,)tr'd to tanArm lus sinry with bas d oa confidential NHC t.)ce.

%ie h ntk $m W K init. fl.pcs ed *l haw no 6 dea, etan and ennamed aonernmeat C.lm ud H med M M e h annouwt11 plana for hearmes on the spill in Da> ton Nnv. 21; arel Wright.

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THE PLAIN DEALER November 15, 1987 la en earlier In'ernew with The Plata Desier, llaynes described responds to a clean up crder fmm the S H C stuning the two 23:1-len drums with amencium<entamirk sted rags, loadind them into a ven, and onwng down 16h*rstates 70 and 78 le %dsht Petterson There, he said, guards wimi him through and Lewil accepted the drums and handled the paperm octL Ha wns said Wr.'atit Patterson was close>r and less espnshe than using a more appropriate riuclear maste dump

The danger of radiosetive materialis ut the nialertel, W the people handling it/ llaynes sad

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154 usi 11-16-?7 01: 49 aes nuclear Authorities Ignored warnings about radioactive chemicals WASHINGTCN (UPI), Authorittes admit they 1pnored warnings in !?it that h1phly F&dioactIve matertal had been smug 3 led onto Wr1pht-Patterson Air Force Base, where the material was spilled twice in 1996.

contaminattnp military personnel and forcing a $1 mtllion cleanup.

Government sources scinowledge they failed to follow up recorts by scientist Jchn Haynes that he had smuggled americium 241 onto the Dayton base. the Cleveland Plain l'ealer reported Sunday.

Haynes told the newspaper he made tf.e adntssion shortly after his 1985 arrest. Hayne seid he pave a formal statement to the Nuclear Rogulatory Commi ss ten tellina authorit ies he had di spose d of two drums of the substance with the help of a friend at Wright-Patterson.

Authorttles, raided Haynes* home in 1935 and confiscated some cr%ricium, which Haynes planned to use to increase the value of clamonds by altertn3 their color.

The authorttles said at the time they did not think they had recovered all the ameractum. Dut said they did not beliese Haynes when ho said he na1 disposed of the substance at Wrlpht Fatterson. They dropped their investigation when Haynes' friend. James Lewis, a rodtolopast safety officer at the base. dented Haynes' charge.

"We were snooker +d."

a federal official involved in the raid told the newspaper.

Another federal official said.

"There were reports (Haynes) had token stuff to Wright-Patterson for eens."

NRC sockesman John strasma admitted to The Plain Dealer that the commission had been informed of the smuggling but did not take acticr immed1ately.

An Inventory crew mistaienly csened an urmarked 30-gallon drum of emoricium In September 1986. The second leak occurred t he following month. The NRC did not investigate the smuggling until after both spills, which allegedly prompted an Air Force coverup of the contaminatton's severity.

The spills were disclosed by resorts published earlier this month in The Plain Dealer. The Dayton Journal Herald and the Dayton Daily N0wn.

The Justice Department 1

is Plcin Dealir has reported thatinvestigating the possible coverup. The Lewis and two other base ereployees dovised a plan to dispose of the material by falsely l at e l ing it and disposing of it at a commerc141 dump.

Base officials withheld informatton from nuclear regulators. and Dofense Secretary Caspar Weinberger misled Gov. Richard Celeste when he inquired about the severaty of the centAminatton by portravIng it as re i no r, the newspaper has said.

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that a building had t o be destroyed l

In c one year project that cost nea,lv $1 re l l l i on. Wright-Patterson has effered to test mere than 100 soy scout s wno ma, have been j

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