Licensed Engineers Optional At The Failed Summer Facility

Is it a NRC requirement?

Failing the 'prudent' test

On Sunday, The Post and Courier reported that not only had SCANA used unlicensed engineers to draw up hundreds of constantly-revised and sometimes impossible-to-build plans, but that in doing so the utility and its lead contractor Westinghouse might have violated state law.

South Carolina requires that drawings for large construction projects be stamped and signed by a licensed engineer. The law is designed to protect the public from potential hazards by ensuring that top professionals provide oversight to major works.
Obviously, the risks posed by nuclear reactors are significant, making that oversight even more critical.
And yet, SCANA and Westinghouse appear to have proceeded through years of construction — and constant delays, revisions and cost overruns — in disregard of those rules.,,