ML20082E131

Forwards 830817 News Article Re Drug & Alcohol Abuse at Facility.Investigation Requested

ML20082E131
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	11/23/1983
From:	Walker A AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Martin J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V)
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NUDOCS 8311280057
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Recently I was speaking with my neighbor, dpg di Jane Swanson of the Mothers for Peace.  %, ,

Jane told me of your. luncheon. meeting San L b 93401 with she and Sandy Silver and of your sincere interest in resolving the many problems at PG&E's SERVED NOV 231983 nuclear plant.

The enclosed copy of an Aug. 17,1983 Telegram-Tribune article confirms what has been common knowledge around '

been San I,uis fo'r many years. That there hasfa great deal of drug and alcohol abuse going on at the Diablo project.

If there's lots of workers showing up at the hospitals' emergency rooms, from some work-related (drug influenced) accident, then imagine all the employees who must be taking drugs,etc. and not getting hurt.

Despite representative. Sue Brown,. claim thatPG&E's plant inspectionprogram[isdesignedtoinsureagainstconstruction errors that could result from workers using drugs; I do not believe that to be possible. The shoddy work simply gets mr .

@ Q built in to the plant. Thus has the Diablo nuclear plant been US And if Philip Joukoff had done a better job then he gg bu ilt .

o b came down, much abuse would have been found taking place. He oc found nothing that I know of.

i ma D Fuel-loading has now been authoni::ed by the NRC.

gg ma.x Andthe design quality hearings are still in progress. It is an outrage! I implore you to initiate ar; investiga.tio .

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• By CarlNeiburger workers using drugs. - Brown sa'id PG&E and its subcon-

- Staff Writer Newman said doctors at French tractors are making an effort to l and Sierra Vista hospitals as well as prevent drug and alcohol use at the

.. i Diablo Canyon construction work- San Luis Obispo General Hospital, nuclear plant.

, ers under the influence of alcohol or where he works, have expressed She said drug and alcohol abuse

, i other drugs are showing up regular- concern about seem' g Diablo em- are."a significant social problem"

• ' ly in hospital emergency rooms, the playees with work-related injuries which is found among Diablo work-

_ county Health Department's emer- who were under the influence of ers because they are "just a cross-

- . gency services director said in a alcohol and drugs. -

section of society."

, letter released Tuesday. He told a' reporter that he didn't "We've taken proper measures to Dr. Larry II. Newman, writing to know how many workers were in- ascertain that it doesn't affect work county 5!ealth Director George B. volved but 'there were "certainly quality, and we're trying to check Rowland, said the Health Depart- enon h to be concerned about, its use when we can," Brown said.

ment should work with Pacific Gas en ' to make it obvious. ... Work at the nuclear plant goes and Electric Co., owner of the, dos't~have~a lot of documen- through five levels of quality inspec-nuclear plant, and construction con- tation (of numbers), but, believe tion by PG&E and itsubcontrac- s tractors to resolve the problem. . me, emergency room physicians tors plus additional reviews by the PG&E representative Suzanne G.- can certainly ten when somebody's Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

- Brown said her firm was anxious to been under the influence." ~ she said. . .

. 'do so. She also said the nuclear . Newman said be suspected many . Brown said PG&E has been train-plant's ' on; program is de ' of -the' injuries that brought the Ing workers'and supervisors to rec-

. signed to against conh workers to the hospital resulted * . ., signs of. drug .and. alechol

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