{"id":115856,"date":"2020-11-14T08:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/federal-utility-fined-900k-for-nuclear-violations-coverup"},"modified":"2020-11-14T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:24:18","slug":"federal-utility-fined-900k-for-nuclear-violations-coverup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/federal-utility-fined-900k-for-nuclear-violations-coverup","title":{"rendered":"Federal utility fined $900K for nuclear violations, coverup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/federal-utility-fined-900k-for-nuclear-violations-coverup.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal regulators have fined the nation\u2019s largest public utility more than $900,000 for violating procedures during the startup of a Tennessee nuclear reactor and subsequently misleading investigators. Two managers and a plant operator who worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority\u2019s Watts Barr Nuclear Plant in Spring City were also issued violations by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Hall, director of the University of Tennessee\u2019s Institute for Nuclear Security, said the notice of violation to TVA points to \u201ca systemic problem in management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who has worked in this field essentially my entire life, I would have been appalled to receive such a letter,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal regulators have fined the nation\u2019s largest public utility more than $900,000 for violating procedures during the startup of a Tennessee nuclear reactor and subsequently misleading investigators. Two managers and a plant operator who worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority\u2019s Watts Barr Nuclear Plant in Spring City were also issued violations by the Nuclear Regulatory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}