Besse nuclear plant probes wrap up Four banned from nuclear industry

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

The last chapters of the Davis-Besse fiasco are about to be written.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today will banish four former FirstEnergy Corp. managers from the nuclear industry for their roles in convincing the NRC that the Toledo-area nuclear plant was safe and could postpone a reactor lid inspection.

At least two of the four men were directly involved in the company's aggressive campaign in October and November 2001 to put off the costly early shutdown for the inspection.

The NRC has since determined that information they provided was inaccurate or incomplete...

[One_Life_To_Give]

1. Thats it? No Prison?

Env/Safety engineers a subject to 5yrs (Class D Felony) for failure to properly carry out their jobs. Sounds like they have a good case for giving a few people some shiny new bracelets.