Nuclear safety meetings* Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. 2-4 p.m. Thursday, April 28. Comfort Inn, 2811 Decatur Pike, Athens, Tenn.* Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. 1-3 p.m. Friday, April 29. Sequoyah Training Center, 2600 Igou Ferry Road, Soddy-Daisy.
Despite the recent federal arrest of a safety contractor who allegedly falsified inspection reports at Watts Bar, the Nuclear Regulatory Agency has given TVA’s 2010 operation of Watts Bar and Sequoyah nuclear plants a “green” rating.
Green is the NRC’s best rating and means the plants are safe.
NRC officials have scheduled two public meetings, one for each plant, to discuss the agency’s annual inspections and assessments.
NRC spokesman Roger Hannah said federal inspectors “looked specifically at safety performance and at [plant officials’] corrective actions rather than the behavior of this individual.”