EASILY the worst plant I have been to.
EASILY the worst HP Department I have seen.
EASILY the worst Procedures I have tried to follow.
SONGS really is in trouble and you know what?... I don't even feel sorry for them! I maybe would if they were willing to accept just how screwed up they are, but the level of both ignorance AND arrogance around the plant is astounding.
So they just dumped literally THOUSANDS of gallons of contaminated water from the RWST into their Aux Feed Water Tunnel. About 2 to 3 feet deep in there! Not to mention the fact there were people in there when the water started coming in who had a "limited means of egress". Now, if that was the only incident (or maybe even just one of two or three) you could say, "Well, stuff happens"... but it's not!
Almost daily, the Security Dept has failing equipment, resulting in long lines of people trying to get in to the plant. If it's not the hand-geometry readers it's the X-Ray machines. If it's not those it's the turnstiles at the parking lot. If it's not those, it's the vehicle bollards. If it's not those it's the "Heavy Blocking Vehicles" that they put in place of the broken bollards not being able to move, as the batteries are dead... I could go on. We're not talking lines that take 30 mins to get into work, oh no... we're talking lines of people that take THREE HOURS to get into the PA!!
The Ops Dept has had their wrists slapped by INPO... as has Training.
The HP Dept is the weakest I've seen, with absolutely no balls whatsoever! "Service Organization" is what they say. No plans for work to be carried out, no briefs for big evolutions, absolutely NO communication, people in positions who have no right being there... I could go on and on and on and on.
Procedures are open to interpretation. How can you follow a document VERBATIM that is "open to interpretation"?
Injuries are a daily occurrence at SONGS. It was the same last year.
Dropped items are also a daily occurrence - it's genuinely amazing and downright LUCKY that they have not killed anyone with a falling object YET! Again, it was the same last year.
Their "Nuclear Notification" program is an absolute joke. It is impossible to weed out the important notifications that may have issues that need addressed, due to the literally HUNDREDS of DAILY notifications written about people being late to a training class, or not holding the handrail while ascending the stairs, or someone picking their nose while walking, or not wiping their butt after going to the bathroom etc etc. On that same subject, there is little to NO feedback on notifications submitted.
Management is obviously failing. They have no idea what they're doing but the good ol' boy/surfer dude routine is alive and well at SONGS.
In my opinion (using my right to free speech) the best thing that could happen to this place is to remove everyone from General Foreman positions and up (and a large amount of Supervisor positions) and bring in a new owner. Closing the plant down is an option, but I'd love to see the smug looks wiped off the faces of the Edison management when they see another Utility Company SUCCESSFULLY running their plant!
Avoid!