In a stunning admission critics are calling the “Friday Night Massacre,” the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Staff acknowledged that it was watching, but had done nothing to stop, Holtec International, as it violated the regulatory conditions of its license at the Palisades atomic reactor.
Late Friday night, July 18, NRC Staff posted a report suggesting that Holtec was already actively performing its proposed steam generator tube sleeving repairs without agency approval.
“The NRC is not an Elliot Ness tough cop regulator. Instead, the ‘Friday Night Massacre’ at Palisades shows NRC and Holtec are more like Ness joining in with Al Capone on the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre,” said nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, the environmental coalition’s expert witness on nuclear safety issues, such as the dangerously degraded steam generators…