22 Palisades nuclear plant guards on paid leave, fire inspections forged

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http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2016/07/hold22_palisades_guards_on_pai.html

22 Palisades nuclear plant guards on paid leave, fire inspections forged

By Rosemary Parker
on July 19, 2016

COVERT, MI -- The exact details of why 22 security guards at the Palisades nuclear plant have been suspended remain murky, but an energy company official admitted that the employees are accused of fabricated fire inspection records.

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Neither Entergy nor the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will say what the guards are accused of doing wrong or how long the problem persisted before it was discovered. The company and federal agency each cited an ongoing investigation.

Prema Chandrathil, public affairs officer for the US NRC Region III, said the NRC identified an issue with fire tours at Palisades while conducting routine safety inspections.

"Our inspectors had questions about those tours and began looking further into the issue. The NRC has fire protection requirements that are specific to each plant and at Palisades there appears to be discrepancies as to how the procedures were being met," she said.

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That seems consistent with the claim of an unnamed source, reported by WWMT, that the plant's paper records "indicated that fire inspections had been completed by the plant's security officers, however, electronic records tracking movement in the plant showed the opposite."

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[Angry Dragon]

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2. supervisors at the plant who signed off on the paperwork were not placed on leave

http://wwmt.com/news/i-team/more-palisades-nuclear-plant-security-workers-expressing-worry

More Palisades nuclear plant security workers expressing worry
by Cody Combs

VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – Several security officers placed on leave at one of the country's oldest nuclear reactors say they're being treated as scapegoats by plant management.

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"I'm on paid leave right now, and I have been for almost a month," said one of the plant workers, agreeing to speak with Newschannel 3's I-Team on the condition of anonymity.

"Now the company (Entergy) lawyer is asking us questions, saying the NRC will be speaking with us…and that we could be criminally liable," the worker added.

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"The training department never once trained us on fire tours," the officer said. "Security used to have a fire brigade that had a certain number of security members on shift, but when Entergy bought the plant they got rid of that…there's a whole fire brigade staff at that plant right now that have never trained anybody on how to do the fire tours."

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According to a source with knowledge of previous Palisades labor issues and investigations, physical paperwork indicated that fire inspections had been completed by the plant's security officers, however, electronic records tracking movement in the plant showed the opposite, a discrepancy putting the fire inspection paperwork in doubt.

That source, tells the Newschannel 3 I-Team the supervisors at the plant who signed off on the paperwork were not placed on leave during the investigation, adding concern about the seriousness of the investigation.

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[Bill USA]

3. nothin' to worry about. ... Jesus!!