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A second employee of the Savannah River nuclear installation in South Carolina has filed a formal complaint contending that she was fired by a federal contractor seeking to squelch reports of widespread drug abuse at the weapons-production facility. Joy M. Adams, a former clerk at the federal plant near Aiken, S.C., contends in a complaint filed with the Labor Department this week that she was laid off Dec. 31 because she corroborated a co-worker’s allegations of open drug use at Savannah River.
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