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An Israeli court on Tuesday halved a six-month sentence against nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who spent 18 years in jail for divulging Israeli nuclear secrets, "Considering his ailing health and the absence of indications that his actions put the country's security at risk, we believe his sentence should be reduced," the judges said.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, looking into security issues at TVA nuclear plants, has called on two former plant guards who talked to The Tennessean about lax safety standards that they said went ignored. The agency won't discuss the TVA situation and may never do so. The NRC's position is that security violations not be made public, said Roger Hannah, an agency spokesman in Atlanta. Advertisement Since Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government has clamped down on access to a lot of information related to nuclear plants and other facilities that officials deemed terrorists could use.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission violated its own rules when it asked the owner of the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station to investigate a 2007 complaint that security guards were sleeping on the job. That was the conclusion in a report by the NRC's internal Office of Inspector General, which reviewed the agency's handling of security officer Kerry Beal's allegation that members of his security team routinely slept on the job. Among the findings in the report, companies that operate the plants should not be asked to investigate themselves when the allegations concern management.
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Ruling favors government whistleblower who pointed out public health dangers at mine Earle Dixon was a Bureau of Land Management project supervisor overseeing the cleanup of a radioactive former copper mine in Northern Nevada when he began speaking out about what he perceived as potential public health and safety hazards that were far worse than state and federal agencies were willing to admit. The BLM did not take kindly to Dixon’s opinions and fired him in October 2004.
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There is a possibility that a corruption scheme for the supply of nuclear fuel was created at the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) "Kozloduy", according to statements made before Darik radio by Georgi Kotev. Kotev is an employee of the NPP and had initially made his accusations through a popular video clips Internet site.
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More than 900 cases alleging that government contractors and drugmakers have defrauded taxpayers out of billions of dollars are languishing in a backlog that has built up over the past decade because the Justice Department cannot keep pace with the surge in charges brought by whistle-blowers, according to lawyers involved in the disputes.
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A whistleblower reported that leaky ducts at a TVA coal plant in northeastern Alabama allowed gases to bypass pollution controls. TVA paid $100,000 in fines, but a TVA Inspector General report discloses that "significant" duct leaks also occurred at one of the agency's Tennessee plants and another plant in Kentucky.
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Localnews 8 has learned Friday night that The Department of Energy Office of Hearings and Appeals ruled in favor of a whistleblower at the INL in several claims he made.
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Ward Plummer, a distinguished scientist with joint appointments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, said today that ORNL had eliminated his lab position — effective June 30. “ORNL terminated me,” Plummer said. “I got terminated without a review.”
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Those who filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit against Energy Solutions say they hope their fourth attempt at their suit will be successful. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins dismissed the group's last False Claims Act suit, but in a ruling last month allowed the former employees to modify and re-file, to the protest of Energy Solutions attorneys.
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Allegations of retaliation against workers for reporting safety concerns and violations at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant has prompted a complaint being filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Longtime Diablo watchdog group San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace sent a letter to the NRC’s regional office in Texas last week urging an investigation into the allegations
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Pacific Gas and Electric Co., owners of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, said the utility will cooperate with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission as it investigates recent allegations that workers at the plant face retaliation if they bring up safety concerns.
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