Re: NRC drops plan to fine n-plant operator - QUESTIONS?

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This may be the case to which you refer.  DOL administrative decisions and
orders and 6th Circuit decision are available through
http://www.oalj.dol.gov/public/wblower/refrnc/eralist3.htm

92-ERA-37 Sprague v. American Nuclear Resources, Inc. 
Recommended Decision & Order (ALJ Feb. 25, 1993) (Daniel J. Roketenetz)#
 
^Decision & Order (Sec'y Dec. 1, 1995) # 
Supplemental Recommended Decision & Order Regarding Back Pay & Attorney 
Fee (ALJ Dec. 5, 1995)# 
Final Decision & Order (ARB July 15, 1996)# 
Certification to 6th Cir. No. 96-3825 (ARB Sept. 13, 1996) 
American Nuclear Resources, Inc. v. USDOL, No. 96-3825, 1998 WL 29862 
(6th Cir. Jan. 29, 1998)# 

In a message dated 98-05-24 14:22:35 EDT, you write:

<< Subj:	 NRC drops plan to fine n-plant operator - QUESTIONS?
 Date:	98-05-24 14:22:35 EDT
 From:	sandyfl@earthlink.net (Sandy Perle)
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 The following article discusses a recent whistleblower at AEP, the worker and
 the NRC. The issues, per the article, is related to "a worker who reported 
 receiving a hazardous dose of radiation at the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power
Station 
 on Lake Michigan. The worker claimed he was discriminated against after 
 reporting the exposure to the NRC."  My questions are:
 
 1. Is anyone aware of the REAL issues?
 2. What kind of exposure did the worker supposedly receive?
Internal/External?
 3. Since all exposures are documented, reported to the indivfidual after each
     badging period, and the NRC in the Annual Form 5, how was this an issue
of 
     a dose reported to the NRC considered as a whistleblower issue? Was it   
     that the exposure was determined NOT to be valid, and therefore NOT      
 reported on the individual's Form 5?
 
 Tuesday May 19 5:32 PM EDT 
 
 BRIDGMAN, Mich., May 19 (UPI) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has 
 dropped a 5-year-old plan to fine the American Electric Power Co. for
allegedly 
 discriminating against a whistleblower. 
 
 The NRC says today the proposed $25,000 fine against the Columbus, Ohio-
 based utility was withdrawn after a judge reversed an earlier decision
against 
 AEP involving a West Michigan nuclear plant. 
 
 The case stemmed from a worker who reported receiving a hazardous dose of 
 radiation at the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Station on Lake Michigan. The 
 worker claimed he was discriminated against after reporting the exposure to
the 
 NRC. 
 
 Federal law prohibits nuclear plant operators from discriminating against 
 workers who file radiation exposure complaints. 
 
 The NRC proposed the fine in 1993 after an administrative law judge with the 
 federal labor department ruled in favor of the whistleblower and against an
AEP 
 contractor, American Nuclear Resources Inc. But a federal appellate court 
 recently reversed that decision, ruling in the contractor's favor. 
 
 The NRC says after the appeals ruling, its staff withdrew the 1993 ``notice
of 
 violation'' and proposed fine. 
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