Michigan nuke plant operator tests positve for drugs
An operator of DTE’s Fermi 2 nuclear plant in Monroe has been relieved of duty after testing positive for illegal drugs. “A licensed operator had a confirmed positive for an illegal drug during a random fitness-for-duty test,” plant officials said in a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “The employee’s access to the plant has been terminated.” The incident is said to have occurred at 1:30pm on May 5
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An operator of DTE’s Fermi 2 nuclear plant in Monroe has been relieved of duty after testing positive for illegal drugs.
“A licensed operator had a confirmed positive for an illegal drug during a random fitness-for-duty test,” plant officials said in a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “The employee’s access to the plant has been terminated.”
The incident is said to have occurred at 1:30pm on May 5.
DTE spokesman Guy Cerullo said that for reasons of employee confidentiality details of the incident such as the worker’s duties and the drug involved will not be released. Though the company’s report to the NRC said that the employee’s access to plant has been terminated, Cerullo could not confim that the employee has been fired.
Fermi 2 is a 1,098 megawatt General Electric boiling water reactor of the same design as those at Fukushima. It has been in operation since 1988.
The plant is currently operating at 100 percent power.
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