ML20237G586
| ML20237G586 | |
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| Site: | Point Beach  |
| Issue date: | 07/21/1987 |
| From: | Coughlin L HOUSE OF REP. |
| To: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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u SELECT COMMITTEE ON NARCOTICS Mr. Lando W. Zech, Jr.
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Dear Mr. Zech:
1 Enclosed please find. copies of two recent newspaper articles which describe worrisome incidents at Philadelphia Electric's Peach Bottom nucicar facility.
Both articles describe incidents in which workers at the facility were reportedly exposed to dangerously high icvels of radiation.
CDo 300 f I would appreciate it if you w Id look into these matters and l
those raised in my letter of June 1,1987 concerning safety issues at the Limerick facility. The issue of nuclear plant safety is of para-mount concern to my constituent'y and I hope that these issues will receive prompt attention, q
l With all best wishes, Cordially, LAWRENCE COUGILIN 1
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By Den Stets.
1; i Peach Bottom's Unit 2 reactor.'
in an interview, Field aald "It is)
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technician at the Peach Bottom nu<
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- ' clear power plant yesterday filed a
($12 million lawsuit against Philadel-he was escorting tw6 engineers wilh '
phia Electric Co., alleging that the a hand-held meter into the tunnel;
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Dangerously high levels of radiation The complaint seys that a Peschi g%.
30 avoid shutting,down the plant.
l Bottom reactor operator told Field
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three days after the incident that the '
leges ths; PE supervisors lied to him company ordered operators to dump
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about his exposure levels and then
, redloactive gases into the tunnel to had hiin fired for attemptinig 10 und
' bypass a piece of malfuncdoning.
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out how seriously his health may,
a been endangered by the inci-I"{ccording to the complaint, Meld i E[I g,
Also named in the suit, filed in the found the radiation levelin the tun 6 i
pCourt of Common Pleas of York nel so high that it went beyond the
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mouth, Mass., and two PE health spe.
rem scale. A rem is a measure of
. clalists at Peach Dottom at the time i biological damage caused by radia.
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lion. The Naclear Regulatory Com.
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o l Field is alleging PC officials or-
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$M riered radioactive steam dumped talo
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, a tunnel where he was working in.. g given year from natural and man.
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' March I,19M, rather than shut down h'Inade murces.
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,g Heid a attorney, the total exposure i ig
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M vf in Febroary, the NRC fined PE M
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550.000 for forcing Dartlett Nuclear,a,
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f forced another subcontractor, f' pa&
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t Stearns Catalyuc loc., to fu neld's; M
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) Hancee, Dawn. in January 1996. after A
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f i subjecting her to frequent quastion-j 3t i,N[g.
l ing about held's plans after les had-Jf t been terminated.
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