PNO-II-85-099, on 851022,telephone Threat Received from Recently Terminated Worker Threatening to Blow Up General Carpentry Laborer Assigned to Turbine Bldg Area.Area Searched.No Bomb Found

PNO-II-85-099:on 851022,telephone Threat Received from Recently Terminated Worker Threatening to Blow Up General Carpentry Laborer Assigned to Turbine Bldg Area.Area Searched.No Bomb Found

ML20134A304
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	10/23/1985
From:	Bankin W, Mcguire D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:
References
PNO-II-85-099, PNO-II-85-99, NUDOCS 8511040334
Download: ML20134A304 (1)

October 23, 1985 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE PN0-II-85-99 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information is as initially received without verifi-cation or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the Region II staff on this date.

FACILITY: Georgia Power Company Licensee Emergency Classification:

Vogtle Units 1 and 2 Notification of Unusual Event Docket Hos. 50-424 & 50-425 Alert Waynesboro, Georgia Site Area Emergency General Emergency X Not Applicable

SUBJECT:

B0MB THREAT AGAINST INDIVIDUAL WORKER Georgia Power has informed Region II that the. telephone operator for a construction company on site received a telephoned threat at 2:05 p.m. (EDT) yesterday from an individual who said he would " blow up" a general carpentry laborer assigned to the turbine building area.

The caller, who identified himself -as a recently terminated worker, said he intended to take this action at an off-site convenience store in retaliation for having been identified as a drug user. The caller further said he brought gasoline and gunpowder on site on October 18, but that his intended victim failed to report to work that day.

Plant' security yesterday. searched Deputies fromthe theturbine building Georgia)

Burke County (and general areaoffice sheriff's from 4:45 to 5:20 searched thep.m.

convenience store. No bomb or gunpowder was found in either location.

.Vogtle Unit 1 is approximately 80 percent complete, and Unit 2 is about 55 percent complete. No fuel is on site.

Region II has informed the Information Assessment Team and the State of Georgia.

Georgia Power is prepared to respond to media inquiries.

This information is current as of noon today.

Contact:

W. Rankin, 242-4197 D. R. McGuire, 242-5545 I

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