Retaliation at San Onofre nuclear power plant (workers afraid)

[ensho]

http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/1260


A group of West Coast politicians last week insisted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission better inspect nuclear reactors in the U.S. in light of the ongoing disaster in Fukushima.

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But, what good are inspections of plants if the truth is suppressed?

Not more than three weeks before the tsunami hit Japan and touched off the worst nuclear reactor catastrophe since Chernobyl, an environmental group in Orange County released an internal memo to the Los Angeles Times which says that workers at the San Onofre are afraid of retaliation if they report problems at their Southern California Edison-operated nuclear facility.

As the Times article states, an engineer at the plant said more than 24 workers who came forward to report safety problems said “they feared retaliation from management after they made complaints.” Ninety percent of those who feared management fallout from their complaints did, in fact, reportedly experience some retaliation. .

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how many other US nuke plants have workers afraid to speak up?

[Journeyman]

1. Just one of the problems when safety is hostage to profit. . .

[drm604]

2. Precisely.

[hayu_lol]

4. Workers at San Onofre, an old landmark on the coast highway...

are union and have access to grievance procedures. I note the writer in this link has no background for this sort of hit piece--a poet? Sheesh. Doesn't look like she contacted the union involved for 'the other side of the story.'

If the safety problems exist, why are the workers still working there?

Sorry, smells like another looney tunes hitpiece.

[ensho]

5. hey puppy dog, 'poet' isn't a dirty word, poets think

nt

[Journeyman]

7. She's quoting articles from "Reuters" and the "Los Angeles Times". . .

Do you not read the links before you pontificate about them, or is this just further examples of the lack of quality of workmanship and inattention to detail we've come to expect from the nuclear garbage industry?

And what's with "an old landmark on the coast highway"? Are you digging this out of Nuclear Ass-Suck Weekly, or do you just like to "wax poetic" when you haven't a clue what you're writing about?

The San Onofre garbage burner is naught but an eyesore along the coast. The only "old landmark on the coast highway" worthy of such notation is the Mission at San Juan.

[Juneboarder]

3. It's such a comforting thought

knowing I'm 22 miles from San Onofre. I guess I need an earthquake/nuclear meltdown/radiation kit now.

[jwirr]

6. I actually had a story regarding TVA workers years ago - I wrote to

a congressman that it should be investigated since I did not have the proof myself. The congressman wrote back to say that they would not investigate it because that would lose jobs. It involved improper paper work and having to start projects over again and again when some worker "lost" his paper work.

This is probably still happening there also. But we do not dare stop them because it is jobs that will be lost. This was in the building process - imagine what they are doing now.

[bananas]

9. There's a story in the news that sounds similar

http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/News/article.php?id=88214

Feds charge worker at TVA nuclear site in Tenn.
Updated March 24, 2011 2:38 PM
By Bill Poovey - Associated Press

KNOXVILLE (AP) — A subcontractor employee at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant has been charged with lying about power system inspections at the only site in the nation where a reactor is being built, prosecutors said Thursday.

Matthew David Correll, 31, of Hixson was charged in a two-count indictment with making false statements. Prosecutors said Correll lied about measuring cables that would supply power to a safety system at the reactor site.

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Correll works for Williams Specialty Services, a subcontractor on the $2.5 billion, 1,200-megawatt reactor project expected to be finished by October 2012. The company's location and contact information could not be found, and TVA could not immediately provide it.

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The arrest comes two months after an unrelated Nuclear Regulatory Commission letter cited TVA "errors and omissions" in a Watts Bar project fire protection report and excessive delays in providing information. The letter called on TVA to promptly supply information for its review of an application for a reactor operating license.

Soon after the letter was received, site vice president Masoud Bajestani abruptly left his job overseeing the construction project. TVA wouldn't provide details about his departure, calling it a personnel matter, but the utility has contended it wasn't related to the NRC letter.

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[crickets]

8. K&R