ML20249A885

PNS-77-050:on 771223,telephone Call Was Received by Secretary for Piping Contractor for Braidwood Site Re Bomb Threat.No Mass Evacuation Was Made & No Suspicious Devices Were Found During Search

ML20249A885
Person / Time
Site:	Braidwood
Issue date:	12/27/1977
From:	Bush L, Chapell D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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PNS-77-050, PNS-77-50, NUDOCS 9806190052
Download: ML20249A885 (1)

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Deceber 2.h 1977 v; . n ;;Cn p ;(:~. .  : D - LVP; V: i n d~-- Pin-n-Go 5 is, preliminary notification constitutes EARLY n:tice of events of POS: IBLE g.i4T securTry or puolic interest significance. ine information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically aTi that is known by IE staff as of this date.

Facility: Connonwealth Edison Company, Braidwood Unit 1 (DN 50-456) Braidwood, IL

Subject:

BOMB THREAT ,

', .On December 23, 1977, at 7:32 a.m., a telephone call was received by a secretary for the piping contractor for the ,Braidwood site. The caller, who was described as,a male with a dee voice, asked the secretary if this was " Norther'n Petro Chemical Company." When she advised him it was the Braidwood site, the caller said, "you'd better clear eve ~ryone out because there is a bomb set to explode at 9:00 a.m. at Reactor Building fl."

The construction superintendent was notified and the workers were requested to search the immediate area for any suspect devices. No mass evacuation was made and no suspicious devices were found during the search. Nonnal ,

work was resumed after 9:00 a.m., the time the caller said the " bomb" was to explode. - - -

44 The licensee suspects that the caller may have been a former guard of Northern Petro Chemical Company.who had been fired by that company.

He understands that Northern Petro Chemical has received bomb threats after two guards were fired.

RIII notified the Chicago Field Offices of the FBI and ATF of the telephone bomb threat in accord with existing agreements. No press release is planned by the licensee or by RIII. '

Braidwood is a two-unit nuclear reactor site under construction and is located approximately 60 miles southwest of Chicago.

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