Washington (Platts)--7Jan2008
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce will "probe breakdowns in NRC
oversight" following reports of Peach Bottom security guards sleeping on duty,
two congressmen said in a January 7 statement. Michigan Democratic
Representatives John Dingell, chairman of the committee, and Bart Stupak,
chairman of the panel's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said in
the statement from Dingell's committee office that they "will conduct a
comprehensive review of the NRC's operations." Dingell said his committee
"would like to know whether it was the repeated notification from a concerned
employee or the threat of a videotape showing security workers asleep on the
job appearing on the evening news that prompted the licensee to look into" the
Peach Bottom allegations.
Other NRC issues mentioned in the statement as topics for oversight
include nuclear power plant license renewal, licensing of a mixed-oxide fuel
fabrication plant in South Carolina, fire protection, and stockpiling of
potassium iodide. The statement did not say whether hearings have been
scheduled, and a call to Dingell's committee staff was not returned by press
time.
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