Feds Warn NJ Nuclear Plant Operator Over Firing

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Source: Associated Press

Federal regulators are worried that a security manager's firing from a job at a nuclear plant could deter employees and contractors from questioning safety at one of the nation's largest nuclear power stations.

A federal jury in Camden last month concluded that the 2009 firing of Robert Scull was in retaliation for the manager's plan to tell the NRC about his safety concerns at the adjoining Hope Creek and Salem nuclear plants in Lower Alloways Creek Township, south of Wilmington, Del.

Scull said he did not have enough assistants to maintain security of the plants, the second-largest nuclear generating facility in the U.S. He was awarded $400,000 and has since made court filings asking for his old job back.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent a letter to plant operator PSEG Nuclear on Friday asking it to detail what actions the company was taking to ensure the firing doesn't have a chilling effect on other would-be whistleblowers.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/feds-warn-nj-nuclear-plant-operator-firing-19783997

[DeSwiss]

1. Shut that shit down. K&R n/t

[Mopar151]

2. The history of nuclear power in a nutshell

Time and time again, nuclear power and civilian, for-profit management prove to be incompatible.

[mbperrin]

3. Lying and cheating is in the DNA of the nuclear industry.

I'll cheer when the last plant is torn down.