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TVA subcontractor faces federal charges
Marlin:
KNOXVILLE — A TVA subcontractor faces federal charges in the filing of false reports on construction of a nuclear power plant.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/mar/24/officials-tva-faces-charges-tied-nuclear-site/
navynukedoc:
What a douchebag. And not the perfumey nice smelling kind either!
Really?!?! How hard is to do what you are getting paid to do? If you don't want to do that job, I suggest not taking it on in the first place. Hope he goes to jail for it.
And think of all the people he could have hurt had this not been found and an issue had occured.
More bad press for the Nuke industry, I am sure will follow this.
Styrofoam:
My initial reaction is anger, but now I'm just confused. What would motivate someone to do this?
HydroDave63:
--- Quote from: Styrofoam on Mar 25, 2011, 01:25 ---My initial reaction is anger, but now I'm just confused. What would motivate someone to do this?
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same reason someone wouldn't look at boric acid snowman on a reactor vessel head, or properly test to see if slightly dirty cable tray insulation in fact burns like cotton candy. Expediency.
Sun Dog:
--- Quote from: navynukedoc on Mar 24, 2011, 01:58 ---
More bad press for the Nuke industry, I am sure will follow this.
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The industry gets bad press, with or without this type of performance. If packaged properly, this may even be a vehicle for good press.
Hopefully we’ll read about this in a WSJ OpEd, a piece that includes the following points:
The construction project remains on schedule, in spite of the criminal act.
The systems of checks and balances worked, demonstrating that no one person can adversely impact the future safe performance of a unit under construction.
The dirtbag got 20-years behind bars, effectively eliminating him from the gene pool. It also sends a strong message to other potential lazy dirtbags.
The dirtbag admitted to a cellmate that he was secretly working for the anti-nuke organization Fathers for War. His undercover assignment was to discredit the commercial nuclear industry and derail new construction. He failed.
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