No: II-08-005 February 12, 2008 

CONTACT: Ken Clark (404)562-4416 E-mail: OPA2@nrc.gov 

 Roger Hannah (404)562-4417 

NRC ISSUES ORDER TO FORMER TURKEY POINT SECURITY EMPLOYEE 

PROHIBITING WORK IN NRC-LICENSED ACTIVITIES FOR THREE YEARS 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued an Order to a former contract security employee 

at Florida Power & Light Company’s Turkey Point nuclear power plant near Miami which prohibits him 

from working in NRC-licensed activities for a period of three years. The immediately effective Order 

was issued following the former security officer’s felony conviction for making a false statement during 

an investigation conducted by the NRC Office of Investigations. 

NRC officials said Juan Blanco, a former security employee of Wackenhut Nuclear Services, 

which provides FP&L with contract security services at Turkey Point, admitted during an NRC interview 

in February 2006, that he provided a statement that was not complete and accurate during a previous OI 

interview in April 2005. Specifically, Blanco told the NRC in 2005 that he had no knowledge of an 

incident involving the removal of two firing pins from a weapon. In a 2006 interview, he admitted that he 

was shown the firing pins by the security officer who removed them after they were removed. 

Blanco failed to report to FP&L or Wackenhut information that was adverse to the safety and 

security of the facility. 

NRC officials said Blanco’s actions were determined to be in violation of federal regulations 

which state that an employee or a contractor may not deliberately submit to the NRC, a licensee, or a 

licensee’s contractor, information that the person submitting the information knows to be incomplete or 

inaccurate in some respect material to the NRC. 

For a period of one year after the three-year period of prohibition has expired, Blanco must, 

within 20 days of acceptance of his first employment offer involving NRC-licensed activities, provide the 

NRC with the name, address and telephone number of the employer or entity where he is, or will be, 

involved in NRC-licensed activities. 

The NRC on Jan. 22 announced proposal of a $208,000 fine against FP&L for four security 

violations at Turkey Point which included two occurrences of willfully failing to properly equip armed 

responders because two individuals willfully disabled weapons by breaking or removing firing pins; a 

failure to make a 1-hour report to the NRC as required; and providing the NRC with incomplete and 

inaccurate information. 

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NRC issued a Confirmatory order to Wackenhut Corporation confirming corrective actions the 

contractor agreed to take. A former FP&L employee and a former Wackenhut employee were issued 

confirmatory orders prohibiting their seeking employment in NRC-regulated activities until mid-2008, 

and two former Wackenhut employees were ordered not to seek employment in NRC-regulated activities 

for respective five-year periods. 

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