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Structural Issues
Worker Problems
From an AP report: Carl Drega
Three nuclear power plants that hired the New Hampshire man who killed four people last month
followed federal security regulations, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday. ...
Carl Drega worked at various times at Vermont Yankee, Pilgrim in Massachusetts, and Indian
Point in Buchanan, N.Y. the NRC said.
Staff at each of the plants conducted the background security checks required of anyone who
works at a U.S. nuclear power facility and none turned up anything that would have alerted
officials, the NRC said. Drega had worked at each of [the power plants] as a contractor on maintenance projects. The
purpose of the inspections, conducted Aug. 26-29, was "to determine if the access
authorization programs, as implemented, identified information that should have precluded
Drega from being granted unescorted access," ..."to the secured portions of the plants."
(Drega, you may recall, gunned down and killed two New Hampshire state troopers who had
stopped him on a routine traffic citation, drove one of the trooper's cars into town to kill
a judge and a newspaper editor, set fire to his own house, and drove away to engage in a gun
battle with four other policemen. He was killed, and authorities later discovered bomb
materials on his property. The report did not say whether there were nuclear components to
those bombs.)
Who is minding the store?
Dorrie Weiss
RECENT NRC EVENT REPORTS
NRC Event Report January 17, 2001 FITNESS FOR DUTY REPORT- A contract manager tested positive
for illegal drug use
NRC Event Report March 2001 FITNESS FOR DUTY REPORT INVOLVING A SUPERVISOR - A non-licensed
supervisor was determined to be under the influence of alcohol during a random test.
PilgrimWatch.org
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