ANO: One dead and Eight Injuried, and only a Yellow Finding.

In the end, I think it was a malicious and intentional ends of Entergy to not follow safety standards and plant procedures based on profits leading to massive plant damage and death and injury to the on site employees!!!

See, the difference between me and the NRC, the real risk or danger to the public…I would measure what the control room staff didn’t know about the heavy lift situational awareness from the moment the heavy lift began till until after all the accident investigation were complete. I would base the magitude of the punishment or incentive  on what the staff didn't know, not on the risk of fuel damage. Fuel damage or potential off site releases are always looking at the "dead body" in the middle of the road through the rear view mirror that you just ran over.

“The results are somewhat less severe than the combination of a red and a yellow finding the regulator initially proposed

The totality of what their actions were going to unleash about the condition of the facility in which they don’t know or understand…

It is setting in motions events and not knowing accurately how it will play out…the gap of knowledge and understanding…

In the end,  I think it was a malicious and intentional ends of Entergy to not follow safety standards and plant procedures based on profit leading to massive plant damages and death and injury to the on site employees!!!

Now you need to start firing the NRC leadership in Region IV  and up to and including the EDO…

But as we see in the VA debacle management people never get fired in government!

I got the NRC plan...they are going to severely increased oversight of the plant. Say the final determination comes at the two year point after the accident. They are going to say we couldn't begin punishs them with drastically increasing inspections because they were in the investigation phrase until after the final determination is in. At the two year point, the NRC going say we are going severely increase inspection for two year beginning at the point of the accident. Thus because two years has passed, they behaved well, we are now going to inspect them on a normal bases.

This was maliciously reckless with the NRC  with not immediately tagging Entergy as an extremely dangerous plant withinj hours of the accident and making the local inspectors assume the site and its staff are dangerous.

You know how this is going to plays out…basically because of all the corrective actions mostly the public can’t see, they won’t much make them pay a price and increase oversight based on the corrective actions and management being such heroes post accident. It is nuclear industry schizophrenia circular rationalizations…

"The NRC inspected the Arkansas Nuclear One plant immediately after the accident and said it had no safety concerns about the plant. However, after a follow-up inspection this February, it determined a "high safety significance" finding related to the accident for unit 1 and one with "substantial safety significance" for unit 2."

You know. I rob a bank with a gun, but awaiting trail and on bail…I don’t deserve any jail time because of all the time I worked at soup kitchens and homeless shelter the judge said.  

Basically this is the NRC corruptly portraying they are punishing a dangerous nuclear plant without actually really punishing them…

Remember the staff wanted one red and a yellow finding. Entergy thought if I asked for two white findings the NRC will split the difference. Thus it became.  Even by asking for the white finding, they admitted they didn’t take the nuclear accident, deaths and injury seriously.

This is the risk regulation game, stick it in a unscrutinizable black block, razzmatazz us, then the NRC can arbitrarily chose the punishment to their brothers and our friends without a wit of public understanding. Leave it to the nuclear gods behind doors to deside our fates.

NRC Issues Two Yellow Findings to Arkansas Nuclear One
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that two inspection findings at the Arkansas Nuclear One facility in Russellville, Ark., issued in connection with a 2013 heavy equipment handling incident are "yellow," or of substantial safety significance. The plant is operated by Entergy Operations, Inc.
The NRC evaluates regulatory performance at commercial nuclear plants with a color-coded process that classifies inspection findings as green, white, yellow or red in order of increasing safety significance.
Workers were moving a 525-ton component out of the plant’s turbine building during a maintenance activity when a temporary lifting assembly collapsed on March 31, 2013, causing the component to fall, damaging plant equipment, killing one person and injuring eight others. Unit 1 was in a refueling outage at the time, with all of the fuel still in the reactor vessel, safely cooled. Entergy officials declared a Notice of Unusual Event, the lowest of four emergency classifications used by the NRC, because the incident caused a small explosion inside electrical cabinets. The damaged equipment caused a loss of off-site power. Emergency diesel generators were relied upon for six days to supply power to cooling systems.
The falling turbine component damaged electrical cables and equipment needed to route power from an alternate AC power source to key plant systems at both units. This condition increased risk to the plant because alternate means of providing electrical power to key safety-related systems was not available using installed plant equipment in the event the diesels failed.
Unit 2, which was operating at full power, automatically shut down when a reactor coolant pump tripped due to vibrations caused by the heavy component hitting the turbine building floor when it fell. Unit 2 never completely lost off-site power, and means existed to provide emergency power using the diesel generators.
NRC Resident Inspectors responded to the site the day the incident occurred. The NRC conducted an Augmented Team Inspection, prepared a detailed chronology of the event, evaluated the adequacy of licensee actions in response to the incident, and assessed the factors which may have contributed to the incident. Worker safety issues are the responsibility of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which conducted an independent inspection of the incident. The NRC determined that the lifting assembly collapse resulted from the licensee’s failure to adequately review Page | 2
the assembly design and ensure an appropriate load test in accordance with its procedures or approved standards.
The Augmented Team Inspection report documented information gathered from the initial inspection and identified areas for further inspection follow-up. The NRC held a public meeting in Russellville on May 9, 2013, to discuss the team’s findings.
From its follow-up inspections, the NRC identified the preliminary red and yellow findings documented in a March 24 inspection report. NRC held a regulatory conference with Entergy officials on May 1, and after considering information provided by the licensee determined that yellow findings were appropriate to characterize the risk significance of the event for both Unit 1 and 2.
The NRC will determine the appropriate level of agency oversight and notify Entergy officials of the decision in a separate letter.