NRC to webcast portion of Davis-Besse hearing

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NRC LICENSING BOARD TO WEBCAST PORTION OF HEARING ON DAVIS-BESSE ENFORCEMENT CASE

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), an independent judicial arm of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will provide a live video stream of the first day of its hearing concerning the NRC's Enforcement Order against former Davis-Besse employee David Geisen. The live video stream is part of an ASLB pilot program examining how information technology can enhance the public's ability to observe the Board's activities.

The video stream, which will be archived for 90 days, will be available at this Web site: http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=53643 . The video, scheduled to start Dec. 8 shortly before 9:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, will be available in Windows Media and QuickTime formats.

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The ASLB will hear testimony regarding Geisen's challenge of the agency's Enforcement Order, which bars Geisen from NRC-licensed activities for five years. The NRC issued the Order in January 2006, after the agency fund Geisen played a role in deliberately providing incomplete and inaccurate information to the NRC on conditions at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in 2001. Geisen requested the hearing, which was held in abeyance until the U.S. Department of Justice concluded a parallel criminal case against Geisen earlier this year.

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In December Attorneys call engineer a 'scapegoat' - TOLEDO -- "Richard Hibey and Andrew Wise contend their client deserves a new trial if he is not acquitted by Judge David Katz, who presided over the three-week jury trial in U.S. District Court in Toledo. Their request is explained in a 37-page brief that was posted in the court's electronic filing system last week. It claims the government proved Geisen was not involved in drafting and preparing the three serial letters to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that were the basis for his conviction," Tom Henry, Toledo Blade.