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...Savannah River that some of the weapons industry's most disturbing blunders have been exposed. Congressional investigators have turned up internal memos from the facility's manager, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, citing numerous incidents over three decades. On May 10, 1965, operators ignored a loud alarm for 15 minutes. Then they saw water spilling across the reactor- room floor. Fully 2,100 gal. of fluid had leaked out of the reactor, leaving the level of coolant too low. The reactor shut itself down automatically...
...energy agency, whose sprawling, $8.1 billion-a-year nuclear-weapons network includes ten plants and four labs around the country, countered by promising new safeguards and safety procedures. Among the promised corrective measures: establishing better management guidelines for private contractors, like Rockwell, Westinghouse and Du Pont, who now operate DOE facilities; hiring better-trained engineers; and instilling employees with the proper "mental attitude" toward safety...
...recent months Government investigators have begun to turn up internal memos that are shattering the silence. The result: a congressional hearing that revealed a stunning list of nuclear incidents caused by a combination of primitive instrumentation, inadequately trained personnel and a management meltdown by both DOE and E.I. du Pont de Nemours, which runs the plant for the Federal Government. The impact on the environment is not yet fully known, but thousands of gallons of radioactive material have already leaked into the groundwater. The contamination, says a 1985 Du Pont memo, may exist "centuries or millennia into the future...
...workday used to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. for all 46 workers in the compensation and benefits division at Du Pont's corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Since July, the unit's employees have trickled in between 7 and 9:30 a.m., chosen a half-hour or one-hour lunch, and left between 3:30 and 6 p.m. -- as long as they have put in eight hours each day. Secretary Joann Wolanski, 28, picked an early shift; she begins at 7:30, takes a half-hour lunch and leaves at 4. The result: more time...
Although Du Pont has no company-wide policy of adjustable hours, all units are welcome to adopt them. The only two conditions: work must come first, and there cannot be any added cost to the company...