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MEMORANDUM FOR:
J. Nelson Grace, Regional Administrator Region II FROM:
James Y. Vorse, Director Office of Investigations Field Office, Region II
SUBJECT:
BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT (BSEP) INFORMATION REGARDING POSSIBLE. HEALTH PHYSICS CONCERNS
. During the course of the interview of Ms. Patty Miriello regarding her allegation of falsification of pre-service piping inspection documentation at Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, she informed our office of the following events at BSEP that are hereby being forwarded to your o.ffice for appropriate consideration.
Additional details regarding these events may be obtained by contacting Ms. Miriello directly.
1.
Miriello stated that while working with two men from Institute Research Management (IRM), whom she could not further identify, on top of the liner in the drumming rooms at BSEP, she felt her throat burning.
Miriello stated that she asked a female technician from Chem-Nuclear if the " isotopic" had been done.
Miriello stated that the technician said that an " isotopic" had not been done..Miriello i
stated that she went on working in the drumming room even though her throat was burning and no " isotopic" had been done.
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Miriello stated that in the Radwaste area at BSEP, the high radiation area was not locked off from the low radiation area.
She stated that Gene Haight, of IRM had used a rubber raft to float around in the breezeways taking samples.
3.
Miriello stated that Ted Halliday, a security guard at BSEP, who is now the Head of Security for Sumitoma Electric Company in the Research Triangle Park area, phone 581-8100, was in the fuel handling area during the transfer of some spent fuel.
She stated that some of the spent fuel rods _ dropped and the escape access doors janined.
She stated that an official dose estimate of 67 rads was made, and that
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Halliday was suing CP&L over the contamination problem.
She advised
,that a black male was made a Lieutentant in Security at BSEP, with a
$40,000 per year salary for " keeping quiet" about the dropped fuel rod incident.
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She stated that Halliday told her stories about employees sleeping on
" hot" (high radiation) pipes, and that a 24 year old employee died of cancer.
She did not identify any of these employees.
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