NEI Update
This story caught our notice
here at NEI, so I chatted up a member of our legal team to get some additional
insight into how such a situation would be dealt with by our regulators at NRC:
The NRC’s deliberate misconduct
rule for reactors (10 CFR 50.5) is applicable not only to licensees for
so-called “willful” violations of NRC regulations, but also to “any contractor
(including a supplier or consultant), subcontractor, employee of a contractor
or subcontractor….” The proper reference to the radiation protection
standards is 10 CFR 20.1502, which requires “Each licensee shall monitor
occupational exposure to radiation from licensed and unlicensed radiation
sources under the control of the licensee and shall supply and require the use
of individual monitoring devices…” These violations, if proven, could
result in civil penalties or other regulatory actions, like banning individuals
who engaged in that activity from working in the nuclear industry. These
violations could also result in criminal punishment if they are found to be
“willful.”
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