NIRS comments in response to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Davis Besse Lessons Learned Task Force Final Report outlining how the NRC lack of oversight and enforcement in the near miss accident at Davis-Besse 2002 has significantly undermined public confidence in the federal nuclear safety agency.
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NRC and FirstEnergy were in possession of this photo of Davis-Besse reactor vessel head taken during the refueling and maintenance outage just prior to allowing the reactor restart for its operational run to the February 16, 2002 shutdown. Photo clearly indicates extensive corrosion occurring on vessel head.
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NIRS letter conveying continued concern that the federal nuclear safety agency ducked its own safety guidelines in deference to a utility production agenda narrowly missing a potentially catastrophic nuclear accident in 2002 at Davis-Besse.
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