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A Tetra Tech “radiation control technician and a radiation task supervisor deliberately falsified soil sample records… Tetra Tech has agreed to: Discuss the facts and lessons learned from this event with its employees who are engaged in licensed activities within 180 days, emphasizing the importance of not engaging in willful activities in violation of NRC’s regulations…” Notice they don’t even say not to do it again but simply “emphasizing the importance of not engaging in willful activities in violation of NRC’s regulations.” Hence they avoid the already ridiculously low $7,000 fine – less than 1/10th of the bail set for one of those arrested in relation to the tar sands pipeline protest this week. What if these Tetra Tech workers hadn’t been caught? Who caught them?

They seem to not even be stripping Tetra Tech of the contract for the US NRC states that: “For a…