Old marijuana joint found at nuclear power plant

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http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20161024/old-marijuana-joint-found-at-nuclear-power-plant

SEABROOK – The remnants of a marijuana joint were found at Seabrook Station nuclear power plant this month, officials believing it had been tucked in a gap between two structures since at least the 1980s.

A "very old, decomposed and mostly-burned" marijuana cigarette stub was found Oct. 7 by a plant worker, according to NextEra Energy Seabrook spokesperson Alan Griffith whose company owns and runs the plant. It was discovered in the space between the inner and outer domes that surround the plant's reactor, a narrow space where workers rarely go.

Officials believe the stub was left in the gap before the plant became operational in 1990 based on how few people go down there and how decomposed the marijuana was, according to NRC spokesperson Neil Sheehan. The gap is difficult to access, he said, as the worker who discovered the stub was required to rappel into the 6-foot-wide gap to conduct an inspection for concrete degradation.

NextEra notified the NRC about the stub after it was discovered and turned the stub over to Seabrook police, who confirmed it was marijuana with a field test. The marijuana is now stored as evidence by Seabrook police and will be destroyed, according to Seabrook Police Deputy Chief Brett Walker.

NextEra's report was filed as a "fitness for duty" report, which are filed to the NRC to track foreign contraband discovered in the plants, Sheehan said. He said items have been found at the sites of other plants that appear to date back to before the plant's construction.