Uranium Ash at Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Plant Draws Fine
Environment News Service, August, 2004
ATLANTA, Georgia (ENS) — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has proposed a $24,000 civil penalty against Westinghouse Electric Company for alleged violations of nuclear safety requirements at its commercial nuclear fuel plant in Columbia, South Carolina.
NRC officials said the proposed civil penalty is based on a Severity Level II problem, the agency’s second most serious type of violation.
The agency alleges that eight violations resulted from the company’s discovery of uranium ash deposits in a plant incinerator off-gas system that exceeded allowable limits.
The NRC said there were "no actual adverse consequences" and the amount of ash discovered would not have supported a nuclear reaction, or criticality, at the concentration and shape in which...
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