NRC: Controlling Bad Behavior On Plant Employees Through One Papercut After Another

It snowing outside my house. Entergy has more Confirmatory Orders than all the snowflakes on the roof of my house. Entergy has more orders than anyone else in the industry. Basically obsolete equipment and not enough funding to keep all their obsolete plants in good order. Sickening and repetitive fleet wide training on ethics, tell the full truth and don't falsify documents. Well, unless it facilitates high capacity factors and make the corporate more profits. A absolution system without doing the hard work to eradicate corruption...    

Subject: Entergy Response to Confirmatory Order EA-17-132/EA-17-153, Element K

Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 & 2 Docket Nos. 50-313 & 50-368 License Nos. DPR-51 & NPF-6

Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1 Docket No. 50-416 License No. NPF-29

River Bend Station, Unit 1 Docket No. 50-458 License No. NPF-47

Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station Docket No. 50-382 License No. NPF-38

Indian Point Energy Center, Units 2 & 3 Docket Nos. 50- 247 & 50-286 License Nos. DPR- 26 & DPR-64

Palisades Nuclear Plant Docket 50-255 License No. DPR-20

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Docket No. 50-293 Renewed License No. DPR-35

References: 1) U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRG) letter to Entergy (Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. and Entergy Operations, Inc.), "Confirmatory Order, NRG Inspection Report 05000416/2017014, and NRG Investigation Reports 4-2016-004 and 4-2017-021," dated March 12, 2018

2) Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. and Entergy Operations, Inc. letter to the NRG, "Entergy Response to Confirmatory Order EA-17-132/EA-17-153, Element J," CNR0-2018-00039, dated September 27, 2018

Communications with Site Workers

Between March 3, 2018 and April 11, 2018, communications about integrity were shared from the Chief Nuclear Officer (CNO) and senior site leaders with Entergy employees and contractors. The tool "Nuclear Talk" was used to share the message. A video with the CNO about integrity was also distributed across the fleet. These messages communicated with workers the circumstances leading to this Confirmatory Order, that willful violations will not be tolerated, and, as a result, Entergy will be undertaking efforts to confirm whether others are engaging in such conduct at any of its sites. The communications stressed the importance of procedural adherence, ensuring that documents are complete and accurate, and of potential consequences for engaging in willful violations. The messages were balanced with the recognition that people do make mistakes and when that happens, it is Entergy's expectation that its employees and contractors will identify and document issues accordingly.

Between September 21, 2018 and October 1 O, 2018, Entergy conducted the first semi-annual communications with workers in the Entergy fleet reemphasizing its intolerance of willful misconduct and updating the workforce on the status of compliance with this Confirmatory Order...