Management is first of all livid with the NRC, which in turn makes the lives of us average Joe's a major pain in the arse. We all thought the NRC would give us a slap on the wrist for appearance sake when the sirens failed to come in on time. Instead, they walloped Entergy with a $130,000 fine, double what it would normally be! Those freaking butt turds don't even realize they are giving those who want the plant closed far to much ammunition. Something like this could be just enough leverage for the general public to get their ISA, and that is one can of worms we do not want opened. Sure, for a plant almost 40 years old, we are relatively safe, but trust me, we have some issues that cannot see the light of day until after we have gone through re licensing.
What with the explosion and all, the inspectors are having more time to snoop around, so we had no choice but to make another tritium leak public this week. The wolves on the IPSEC list are already howling, demanding to know why it took two weeks to inform the public. Duh, maybe because we did not want you to know about it, were hoping to sneak that one by for awhile, which we would have if not for the explosion shutting us down. This sucks big time, as we are going to be operating under a white code now for quite some time.
The icing on the cake though is that damned Green Nuclear Butterfly! The news just came down that the NRC has agreed to let him have a table at this weeks Annual Assessment Meeting, and NRC Open House. Fork! He's like some deranged Energizer Bunny who just keeps coming at us nonstop. Even worse, rumor on his blog, is that they now have a corporate sponsor.
