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Lawsuit reveals nuclear plant’s poor safety record

In the hush-hush nuclear world, such insider details rarely, if ever, become public, but now a lawsuit has made public 2,000 pages of testimony…

‘That’s not OK in a nuclear plant’: Safety concerns at South Dade’s Turkey Point revealed The Palm Brach Post News. By John Dorschner, Jan. 4, 2010

“…………..”There are the old gauges …where … a needle that goes around and around,’ Ware testified, saying they were “not very reliable.’ When operators looked at the indicators daily, “they’d be stuck.

“So over the years, they developed the habit of pinging them to get them to move. . . . Well, that’s not OK in a nuclear plant because you have to have reliable, you know, verification of where those rods are positioned. . . . That’s a lesson from Three Mile Island,’ the worst nuclear disaster in American history.

In the hush-hush nuclear world, such insider details rarely, if ever, become public, but now a lawsuit has made public 2,000 pages of testimony that offer a fascinating window into the experiences, thoughts and frustrations of Turkey Point executives, employees and contract workers that reveal myriad problems………….

Molden, the former operations manager, was continually concerned about the control rod indicators, which kept malfunctioning. He called several FPL executives, saying, “We shouldn’t be operating our plant at this standard.’

Upset by what they viewed as a lack of company support for safe operations, Molden and Mike Navin quit as operations managers. “………..For years, the NRC had been concerned about whether Turkey Point employees felt free to come forward with safety concerns without suffering repercussions.

‘That’s not OK in a nuclear plant’: Safety concerns at South Dade’s Turkey Point revealed

January 5, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy