ML20215L536
| ML20215L536 | |
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| Site: | 07001193 |
| Issue date: | 05/13/1974 |
| From: | Donahue J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| FOIA-86-281 NUDOCS 8610290083 | |
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May 13, 1974 RO:III Files POSSIBLE THEFT OF SNM - KERR MCGEE, CIMARRON FACILITY, CRESCENT, OKLAHOMA
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At the conclusion of a physical security inspection of the K-M Plutonium Plant on May 9, 1974 and prior"to the closecut meeting with licensee %
management, I was asked to attend a meeting in the Plant Manager's office on a matter which was not related.to my inspection or its results.
Present at this meeting were the following:
IMorgan Moore.., Plant Manager Raymond Janka', Manager A&A WayneNorwood,jHealthPhysics
- FredWelch,TecurityOfficer j James Read Corporate Security Officer
~7ames Patte son, RO:III AEC Morgan Moore presented mg with a py of an internal memorandum dated 9
May 6,1974'-Authored by!F ed Welch
Subject:
" Report of Exposure." I was m
f asked to read the memorandum and ve my impression as to the efforts expended by K-M to investigate and resolve a reported possible unauthorized A copy of the May 6,1974 memo is attached. After reading possession of SNM.
the memo content I asked why this matter had got been reported directly to RO:III when it first became known. Mr{JankE1 explained that the informant, Mrs. Pat Ellis, twas vague, changed her stories several times and there was no
'lIevidence to cot'roborate her contentions.
Mr. Moore indicated that K-M plans to contac Simon, tt_lfan riffith,'all former employees, who lived in Kingfisher at e tim Mrs. Ell reporte,dIy g
rom an identified obtained possession of two pellets of unknown materia Since it appeared that the Icgical persons who could corroborate K-M emplo e.
, Mrs. Ellig contentions are her husband and her children, licen ee representa-tives vers. sked why they were not contacted to date.
Mr. Moore eplied that 2
.[Mrs.Ellis'husban works in Oklahoma City (Tinker Ai orce Ba and was not home when Mrs. Ellis was interviewed. No explanation was offered as to why the children, (who reportedly were instructed by the husband to throw the pellets in John's Creek), were not contacted.
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I told licensee representatives that I would discuss this matter further with RD:III management and that K-M would be advised of the action contemplated.
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FROM Fred' Welch' SUBJECT. Report of Exposure V.
.'s-On k-29-74 (Monday) at about 160Q hourf Mrs. Jean Jtiij ):alked l
tof Waync Norwood recarding a conversation she had with a neigh,bor Jg hers a, Mrs. Pat Ellis age about 43-kh at her house Mrse E11fs regaroing an employer (male) of KM that had 'given
[rs.E111q a small plastic bag sealed by yellow tape. Contents appeared to be plutonium,os11ets or insulator pellets (n. umber unknown). Wheq Mrs. Jung sked what she did with them Mrs. Ellid said she Ehrew them in th river (Cimarron). This conversa. tion took place on Wednesday,(4-24-Th). The day after Mrs. Jung brought her daughter home from the hospital.
Wayne Norwood briefed Morgan Moore on the morning of k-30-74.
I Morgan briefed Mr. Dunn.
Roy King and Wayne Norwood went to the Pu plant about 1100 hrs.
4-30-74 and. talked ecl Mrs. Jung regarding the story she had related tc' U,ayne Norwood the evening before, KM personnel who have been mad,e or were Aware of this incident i
as of 1500 hrs 4-30-74 besides Mrs. Jt ng gre:
Wayne Norwood Fred Welch Morgan Moore Marty Binstock Ray.Janka Jim Marler Parker Dunn John Harrison (HP Roy King, Jack Tice Virgil Richards l
In talking to Nrs. Jun'g about 11:45 on 4-30-74 it was discovered j
that the firsr person 'she had informed of this in,ci, dent was John Har,risq,n a H,P. technician at the Pu plant. And Jopn,had escorted Mrs. Jung to the HP of fice to talk to Wayne Norvoof.-
l Apprcxim.tciv.1500 hoprs on k-30-74 Morgan Moor'e and Way Norwo@
accompanied Mrs. Jung,,to Kingfishe'r,5 0klahoma'to ta'If t I,1rsPatEllis.!J l
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said in t alking 'tM ttrs.'Illis sbe~said this all happened ov'er'three-l years aga and the 'cA.erial w'as' two pc11 cts which she said they s
handled ~as they were out in the open and that they were given to i
her by a ry en.ployee, who she believed lived at 6th and Toronto i
street in Kingfisher and drove an old Studebaker car. The house had since b'een torn doun but they they had the pellets around for s
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a while and that her husband had told their kids to throw them in the creek (of f Bowman St. bridge - Johns Creek). Roy Kin,g checked the past records on employees from Kingfisher. Thres new,2 were disclosed of employees who lived in Kingfisher at that time and lived very close toJ6th and Toronto Street. They are Leroy Nelson Jim Little and Leo Simon.
g Leroy Nelson was driving a Studebaker car at that time.
At 0945 on 5-1-76 Leroy Nelson was called inte' borgan Moore's office. Present werd Morgan Moore Roy King andNFred Welch.
/ Horga.n explained the incident and the happenings up to th(t mDgent and asked Nelson. Li he was involved and did he remove somd pellets from the,ptant dad take them home to show what the plant was making.
Nelson said he did not take any and that he did not want any at home.
Nelsan said that about that time he was driving a Studebaker car and had lived at 6th and Toronto Street in Kingfisher, but the house he had lived in had not been torn down but gutted and-remodeled.
At approximately 1420 hours0.0164 days <br />0.394 hours <br />0.00235 weeks <br />5.4031e-4 months <br /> on 5-1-7h Wayne Norwood and Fred Welch went to Kingfisher, Okl,ahoma to talk 'to Mrs. Ellis again in regards to a possible identification of the KH cmployee who'had given her or her children the two fuel pellets.
Mrs. Ellis was receptive but vague when shown pictures of KM employces who possibly could have been the employee that gave her or her children the pellets,when she looked at Mr. Leroy Nelson's picture she looked away and said she could not identify any of them.
When[ Hrs. Ellis was asked if they at one time lived near 6th and Toronto streets in Kingfisher she said yes then quickly corrected her answer to no.
We just have a garden near there that we plant each year.
When Mrs. Ellis was asked again what they looked l'ike she said like big green rchhte feed pellets and she said her husband looked at them and he said they looked like pellets for a pellet gun and they didn't look like the real thing to him. Again Mrs. Ellis was asked if she could give us.a better time element'of when this all happened. As close as she could remember it was the summer of 1970., Mrs. Ellis was asked about the place at 6th and Toronto where this person li0ed. Was it torn down or moved away.
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said no, but it had been completely remodeled inside. Af ter this conversation (_!lts. Ellis became very vague.
On 5-2-74 Leroy Nelson 'came to, Morgan Moore saying that at about that time (Sunner 1970) he had been giving a ride to a new employee who was living at the address of: Hrs. Ellis (roomer) and that the new employee was terminated by Kti about a month af ter he started.
Nelson thought his name was Creg Grif fith. A check of the records
' revealed that a Greg A. Grif fith,was employed at the Cinnrron Facility f rom 6-21-70 to 9-21-70 and that he had roomed at the a
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address is Bountiful, Utah.
Efforts to contact Leo Simon and ' Jim Little ~have been unsuccess-ful to date Y
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