Officials: South Carolina Nuclear Plant Employees Violated Safety Procedures

Employees at a South Carolina nuclear plant failed to check for fires when making rounds and then falsified log books, federal officials said.

The violations of policy happened in 2017 at Duke Energy’s Robinson Nuclear Plant near Hartsville, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a statement.

The employees were supposed to check two emergency diesel generating rooms for fire each hour, but didn’t perform their duties while reporting they made rounds in log books, the agency said.

Duke Energy agreed to retrain employees about the importance of the fire checks not only at the Robinson plant, but also at the utility’s other five nuclear facilities.