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Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation provides a wide range of nuclear plant products and services to utilities throughout the world, including fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation and control, and advanced nuclear plant designs.
Federal Contract $: $ 0.0m
Total Number of Instances: 4
Total Misconduct dollar amount: $ 3.9m
Instances of Misconduct
1. Worker Plutonium Exposure (Savannah River Site)
“The U.S. Department of Energy… fined Westinghouse Savannah River Co. $220,000 and issued a Preliminary Notice of Violation for violations of Energy Department nuclear safety rules at the department's Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. The penalty stems from a September 1999 event in which eight workers were accidentally exposed to plutonium, one in excess of the regulatory limit.”... more»
2. Groundwater Violations
A Pennsylvania Court upheld a $3.3 million civil penalty against Westinghouse Electric Corp. for groundwater violations at the Adams County elevator plant. The majority of the penalty was assessed "for failure to notify DEP for years after more than a thousand releases of hazardous substances to the soil surrounding the Westinghouse plant; and for failure to take prompt remedial action to remove the contamination from the soil and otherwise protect the waters of the Commonwealth.”... more»
3. Radiation Exposure and Falsification of Radiation Dose Records (Savannah River Site)
On April 6, 2004, the Department of Energy submitted a Preliminary Notice of Violation to Westinghouse Savannah River Company for “unnecessary radiation exposure of three…personnel and the subsequent falsification of radiation dose records…the DOE has concluded that violations of 10 CFR 830 Subpart A (Quality Assurance Requirements), 10 CFR 835 (Occupational Radiation Protection), and 10 CFR 820.11 (Information Requirements) occurred”. The DOE proposed a civil penalty of $206,250.... more»
4. Radioactive Contamination of Workers (Savannah River Site)
On July 18, 2000, the Department of Energy submitted a Preliminary Notice of Violation to Westinghouse Savannah River Company for “violations of DOE’s nuclear safety regulations associated with the September 1999 FB-Line worker contamination event. During that event, multiple workers were contaminated due to the handling of a [radioactive material] storage can with a defective weld…[Deficiencies were found in] (1) quality assurance, (2) radiological work practices and controls, (3) procedural compliance, and (4) response to off-normal conditions." The base civil penalty of $275,000 was mitigated down to $220,000.... more»
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