Thursday, March 06, 2014

NRC Says Palisade' SCWE/Safety Culture has Melted Down!

This is a special inspection...the plant SCWE/Safety Culture has melted down recently.

Honestly, doesn’t look like this isn’t a coincidence with my 2.206. There is no question the agency knew I smelled something was going on.

See how these things are sickeningly repeating themselves over and over again...there is a periodicity of these things.  

The NRC never holds a utility accountable to the public also. The agency doesn't assume their interaction with a license are going to enter into a enforcement activity and thus necessitating court level qquality evidence. These guys are still stuck in the 1970s regulatory regime where all of the advantages go to congressional ly protected licensee. It always becomes a “he said, she said”...the licensee and their employees know they can tell half-truths and outright lies without professional accountability.
 
At the end of the day, an inspector goes back into his office sometimes after many days and writes up his recollection of events and complicated discussions.   
 
Right, these inspectors should have to  go into this teleconference with full audio recording capability. Most of the NRC activities should be recorded...most of these activities should have them go into a recorded conference room and all this stuff should be available for public scrutiny.
 
So what about the court of the public? The public gets such a limited window on what goes on with a licensee and the NRC ...and this allows the licensee to portray horrible behaviors to the inspector. Basically the agency has to collect not obtainable quality of document evidence...the licensee knows how to not collect the bad information or write around not getting caught!
 
And if a inspector or NRC management is a friend to the industry, looking for a industry job...a lot of issues just get sterilized.
 
Right, we are talking about the security officer lying to the NRC here below. Actually we are talking Entergy lying to the NRC...probably to meet budgets and save a few pennies? These lies are always about pennies and promotions...
Telephone Conference (Director, Nuclear Security / NRC Inspector) (February 2008)

Recollection of the two participants differs.
 
( New today)

1)  SUBJECT: PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT – PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION FOCUSED INSPECTION (REPORT 05000255/2014009)
 
As documented in the inspection report, Safety Culture deficiencies, in part, contributed to these findings. In 2013, the NRC observed that although your efforts were generally on track with your Recovery Plan, the NRC received several concerns related to SCWE/Safety Culture. Collectively, these issues prompted questions into progress made in the plant’s Recovery Plan regarding Safety Culture. Therefore, the NRC performed this limited scope PI&R inspection to continue assessment of Safety Culture at Palisades, focusing on SCWE.

The NRC identified a chilled work environment in the Security Department. The NRC concluded that staff within the Security Department perceived that: (1) recent actions to terminate the employment of two supervisors was in retaliation for their raised concerns; (2) the Corrective action Program (CAP) was ineffective at addressing equipment and other concerns raised by Security staff; (3) the Security management was unresponsive to employees’ concerns; and (4) the Employee Concerns Program (ECP) could not be relied upon to maintain employee confidentiality.

The NRC inspectors concluded that the Palisades management team did not recognize the
extent of SCWE related concerns within the Security.


2)  NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC-2009-0505]

CONFIRMATORY ORDER

[NRC-2009-0505]

 (EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY)Office of Investigations (OI) initiated an investigation (OI Case No. 3-2008-020). Based on the evidence developed during the inspection and investigation, the NRC identified a violation of 10 CFR 50.9 for inaccurate and incomplete information. This violation is described in the separate Notice of Violation, included as Enclosure 3 to the transmittal letter.




 

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