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A new MOX worker shows up in Aiken and is approached by a dodgy guy….
“Hey, man, want to buy some syn?”
“Sin?!”
“No, man, syn. Synthetic urine. You may be needing it out at the MOX project….”*
(*imaginary conversation….or not…)
Did drug testing take place at the MOX project on April 27, 2016? Did security do a check of cars going into the site? Were various drugs seized?
Has NNSA/CB&I AREVA MOX Services instituted a policy of checking for synthetic urine, observing workers giving samples, full body searches for stashed urine, hair follicle testing, etc? Nine years into this project and the drug testing program, according to NNSA, is inadequate? Unbelievable!
Something is very fishy with that and CB&I AREVA MOX Services/DOE/NNSA are responsible for this situation. As NNSA is letting this situation continue, are Congress or oversight agencies investigating? They should be but as the MOX boondoggle cover-up collusion continues we doubt it….
SRS Watch news, April 26, 2016
Are improperly qualified stoned MOX zombies causing construction and reinstallation problems at the MOX site?
Worker Injury at Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant Construction Site Resets Accident-Free Clock to Zero;
MOX Contractor CB&I AREVA MOX Services and DOE Fail to Inform Public
MOX Site Drug Investigation Needed by Congress & Oversight Agencies
Columbia, SC – An accident resulting in a worker injury at the U.S. Department of Energy’s plutonium fuel (MOX) project caused the number of injury-hours at the MOX project to fall from 24.6 million to zero. The accident, confirmed by DOE, involved a worker who suffered a broken leg on February 15, 2016 while working on the MOX building, according to the public interest group Savannah River Site Watch.
SRS Watch, which had been informed about more than one worker accident at the MOX project, was able to get confirmation about the single accident from SRS public relations officials on April 21. Efforts to get a response directly from DOE’s MOX project manager and the MOX contractor, CB&I AREVA MOX Services, failed.
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Of special concern, the award fee evaluation states that “NNSA found that MOX Services is not implementing random drug testing in a manner that is compliant with the procedure and is therefore not appropriately providing assurance of a drug free workplace.”
It is rumored that up to 45 workers will be subjected to drug testing this week and there are rumors that the use of synthetic urine is not being adequately detected. “The matter of inadequate drug testing at one of the largest and most expensive U.S. Government construction projects in history merits a full investigation by Congress and oversight agencies,” according to Clements.
“The public does not have assurance that the MOX work site is free from workers using drugs and possibly posing risk to themselves and other workers or negatively impacting the quality of construction of the mismanaged project.”