Dive Summary:

• In a public letter Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) expressed concerns over PSEG’s nuclear safety culture in the wake of a recent court finding.
• The U.S. District Court found that a PSEG contractor fired Robert Scull, a security manager at the Artificial Island nuclear power complex, after he raised concerns about staffing practices which may have violated NRC regulation. In June, a jury awarded Scull $400,000 in compensatory damages.
• The NRC is holding PSEG responsible for the retaliatory firing. Now the utility has 30 days to send NRC a report  detailing how to avoid the “chilling effect” that firing might have on nuclear safety culture.

From the article:

“The utility says its employees do raise concerns when they see them and will “again reinforce” that it expects them to do so.”