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U.S. Firm Fined for Poor Nuclear Material Accounting
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has fined Nuclear Fuel Services $60,000 for violating nuclear material control requirements, the commission announced Monday (see GSN, Oct. 22). NRC Administrator Luis Reyes has informed the company that, after several NRC investigations, the commission has determined that NFS could not account for a “substantial amount” of nuclear material at a facility in Erwin, Tenn., for a six-week period in June 2001, according to a commission press release. While the material was later found in a secure storage vault and therefore posed no threat to company workers or the public, Reyes said in his letter that the violations related to the missing material were considered to be a “significant breakdown” in NFS’s ability to control nuclear materials. The commission said in its release that it was satisfied that NFS had taken the appropriate corrective actions. The commission has imposed a fine double that of the $30,000 base penalty for similar violations, however, because of concerns that NFS did not properly address the incident and because the company has been subjected to escalated enforcement in the past two years. NFS has 30 days from receiving Reyes’ letter to either appeal or pay the fine (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission release, Oct. 20).
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