Washington (Platts)--10Apr2008

The NRC proposed a $130,000 civil penalty against Florida Power & Light
for security violations involving sleeping guards at the utility's Turkey
Point nuclear power plant.
In a statement April 10, the NRC said the fine was being proposed because
a 2006 investigation found that plant secuity officers employed by Wackenhut
Nuclear Services were "willfully inattentive," or sleeping, on multiple
occasions from 2004 through 2006, or acted as lookouts so other guards could
sleep on duty.
NRC said it concluded that the incidents were willful and caused FPL to
be in violation of NRC security requirements because the officers were not
capable of maintaining continuous communication with an individual in each
continuously manned alarm station.
In an April 9 letter to the company, NRC's Victor McCree said the agency
"considers this matter to be a significant security concern." McCree is acting
administrator of NRC's Region II office in Atlanta.