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The Nation - News from April 23, 1987

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Sleeping guards and unauthorized visitors at the Turkey Point nuclear power plant will cost Florida Power & Light Co. a $75,000 fine, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff announced. Seven guards were fired after being found asleep, the most recent by an NRC inspector on Jan. 15, said Tom Veenstra, spokesman for the utility. An inspector sent down in early March to investigate the sleeping incidents also discovered an unauthorized visitor in a “vital area” of the plant, said NRC spokesman Joe Gilliland.

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