Junk Entergy Has Giant Ethical and Federal Falsifications Issues

How can you not say on the nuclear fleet level is not having systemic ethics and falsification issues. These are just counted from Jan 1, 2016. Entergy has had a ton of fleet ethics training mandated fleet wide over a number of confirmatory letters over falsification in the last few years. Why keep doing the same thing over and over again that never works.  

Bottom line, the NRC thinks broken ethics is just risk insignificant at any level.    

***Entergy agrees to review fire safety at reactors after probe into falsified reports at a Louisiana power plant

Daily Report Staff

April 11, 2016 

Entergy Corp. has agreed to review fire safety measures at all its nuclear reactors after an investigation by federal regulators found that workers at one plant failed to follow rules and falsified records.

Bloomberg reports contract workers at Entergy’s Waterford 3 nuclear power plant in St. Charles Parish falsified reports showing they had performed fire inspections that never occurred between July 2013 and April 2014, according to a statement issued Friday by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

An Entergy supervisor also failed to take action when provided with information of suspected wrongdoing, the agency says. Plant operators are required to carry out periodic inspections to ensure fire doesn’t damage the reactor’s equipment.

The commission’s findings come as Entergy faces renewed scrutiny over its safety record. Last month, nuclear regulators said that.

***Entergy avoids fine in falsified fire report case at Pilgrim Station

By: Matthew Nadler | April 12, 2016

Entergy won’t be fined following the discovery that a former employee falsified fire watch records at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.

Pilgrim Station Vice President John Dent, Jr was informed of the decision in a letter from Nuclear Regulatory Commission Acting Regional Administrator David Lew on Tuesday.

The company could have been fined $70,000, according to the letter. However, the NRC credited Entergy with investigating the problem after another employee had expressed concern. The safety officer who falsified the reports was fired and the company reexamined its fire watch procedures.

The security officer at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station falsified over 200 fire watch records between June 2012 and June 2014. Fire watches are supposed to be done an hourly basis in certain areas of the plant, according to an e-mail from NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan.

***River Bend: SUBJECT: CLOSURE OF INVESTIGATION (014-2014-046)

 January 25, 2016

Dear Mr. Mccann:

This refers to an investigation conducted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Office of Investigations regarding activities at the River Bend Station. The Office of Investigations initiated the investigation to determine whether a former nuclear security officer at Entergy Operations, Inc. 's River Bend Station, St. Francisville, Louisiana, willfully falsified training records by taking tests for other River Bend Station nuclear security officers, and if River Bend Station security supervisors and managers willfully provided answers to test questions and requested and allowed the former nuclear security officer to take tests for other nuclear security officers.

Based on the evidence developed during the investigation, the allegation that a former River Bend Station nuclear security officer willfully falsified training records by taking tests for other River Bend Station nuclear security officers was not substantiated…