Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors want to determine if Palisades’ owners have addressed problems that have raised questions about the nuclear plant’s “culture of safety”.
The problems have resulted in four unscheduled reactor shutdowns.
“It’s a very important inspection for us,” says Anthony Vitale, the plant’s site vice president, “And it will give us a very good scrub as to where we are. We expect to come out of that with very good ratings.”
If Palisades doesn’t get very good ratings from the NRC inspectors, the west Michigan nuclear plant will be subject to a much more intensive inspection that could take 18 months.
Chuck Casto is the NRC’s regional administrator. He says Palisades’ owners claim to have made progress to improve the plant’s “culture of safety”. Casto says this inspection will determine if those claims are true.
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