ML20207H192

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PNO-77-212:on 771123,two Radiation Workers Received Overexposures as Result of Inadvertently Entering Wrong Work Area Which Had High Radiation.Commonwealth of Massachusetts Informed.No Press Release Planned by Licensee or NRC
ML20207H192
Person / Time
Site: Pilgrim
Issue date: 11/25/1977
From: Liza Cunningham, Higginbotham L
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To:
References
PNO-77-212, NUDOCS 9903120264
Download: ML20207H192 (1)


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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION

' November 25, 1977 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUA

$W This >reliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of an event of

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POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance.

The information presented is as initially received without verifkation or evaluation and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.

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! M SURE OF ONE WORKER TO 3.56 REM OnSeven6r23 two contractor radiation workers were assigned to enter s

high radiition area under plant radiological controls.

beyond the view of the control point monitor they inadvertently approach After passing i

another high radiation area which was a mirror image of the area they were instructed to enter.

Upon finding that their key would not unlock i

. the barricade door they reached through the barricade, defeated the lock and entered the area.

concluded that they were in the wrong room and left.They remaine received a 3.56 rem exposure, the second received a 2.91 rem.One individual' Media interest is expected because of high union attention to matters of c-

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The Commonwealth of liassachusetts has been informed.

press-release is not. planned.by the 1icensee or NRC.

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A NRC, Region I (Philadelphia) received notification of this occurrence telephone call from the Plant Manager at 11:25 AM,. November 25, 1977.

Contact:

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