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Decline in safety culture at Palisades nuclear power plant to be fixed, company tells regulators
Decline in safety culture at Palisades nuclear power plant to be fixed, company tells regulators
LISLE, ILL. — There was not much debate today over the cause of September’s week-long shutdown at Palisades nuclear power plant.
The blame, the plant’s site vice president said, runs from the lowest workers at the Covert Township plant all the way to him.
There was a lack of leadership effectiveness, a degradation in safety culture, and a failure to identify, investigate and correct problems in a timely manner, said Anthony Vitale, vice-president of operations of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
And how that manifested on the weekend of Sept. 25 could have gotten a worker killed.
“We lost the trust ...
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/01/decline_in_safety_culture_at_p.html