...Karma came a'knocking yesterday.
The Plain Dealer reports that FirstEnergy failed a Nuclear Regulatory Commission "force on force" exercise at its Beaver Valley nuke.
The Plain Dealer reports that FirstEnergy failed a Nuclear Regulatory Commission "force on force" exercise at its Beaver Valley nuke.
Security forces at FirstEnergy's Beaver Valley power plant apparently failed part of a routine "force-on-force" exercise in April. Beaver Valley contains two reactors.
The details of the force-on-force exercise are classified and may never be made public, but the NRC earlier this month warned the company in a public letter that it was considering a citation against the company because the security failure looked significant.
The company has already said it does not believe the force-on-force exercise results revealed any weaknesses in Beaver Valley's security strategies but more reflected how the exercise was controlled.
During federal force-on-force drills, paramilitary squads, typically consisting of former military people, try to breach plant security and sabotage the reactor.
Armed with laser-type weapons, they attack at night, try to defeat plant security teams, breach walls and other barriers to invade the most protected areas of the plant, which contain the reactor, spent fuel storage and other critical equipment.
FirstEnergy says that its failure was a result of the way the NRC inspectors conducted the exercise.
In other news, a group of local residents filed a lawsuit alleging that FirstEnergy's Hatfield's Ferry coal-fired generator was damaging their health and their property. Hatfield's Ferry is one of two plants that FirstEnergy has slated for closure in October. Political hijinks have ensued, attempting to keep the plants open. PJM has determined that the plants are necessary for reliability, but FirstEnergy is pretending to proceed with closure, hoping it might get a better deal if it continues this silly game of chicken.
And, closer to home, a Potomac Edison publicity stunt went wrong yesterday when spokesflack Crapaud Meyers got cornered about how the WV PSC General Investigation was going.
Unfortunately, the wanna be journalists at WHAG's summer training camp turned it into a one-sided infomercial, but that didn't dampen Crapaud's enthusiasm for twitching his way through making crap up. Crapaud now says Potomac Edison is working on solving the problem, when just a few months ago, the company told the PSC that there was no problem to be solved.
Watch the video to enjoy Crapaud's newly-evident twitch. What it is that FirstEnergy does to its employees that makes them twitch like that when they lie?
And, closer to home, a Potomac Edison publicity stunt went wrong yesterday when spokesflack Crapaud Meyers got cornered about how the WV PSC General Investigation was going.
Unfortunately, the wanna be journalists at WHAG's summer training camp turned it into a one-sided infomercial, but that didn't dampen Crapaud's enthusiasm for twitching his way through making crap up. Crapaud now says Potomac Edison is working on solving the problem, when just a few months ago, the company told the PSC that there was no problem to be solved.
Watch the video to enjoy Crapaud's newly-evident twitch. What it is that FirstEnergy does to its employees that makes them twitch like that when they lie?
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