Holtec employee splashed with radioactive water in Oyster Creek cask accident

As reported by the Asbury Park Press.

The Associated Press has also reported on this story, very similar or even identical to the Asbury Park Press article above, but abbreviated.

The ExchangeMonitor, in an article entitled "Holtec Violated regs in Oyster Creek Canister Failure That Contaminated Worker, NRC Says," broke the story on May 28th -- but its article is behind a paywall.

In addition, here is the NRC document which led to the articles:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2113/ML21132A064.pdf

This significant incident at Holtec's Oyster Creek, New Jersey, nuclear power plant decommissioning site is not highlighted in the 12 page NRC document, but is "hidden in plain sight" in there. But the ExchangeMonitor reporter, above, sniffed it out nonetheless.

As Janet Tauro of Clean Water Action in NJ put it, how ironic is it that Holtec publicly bragged about breaking speed records in transferring all the irradiated nuclear fuel out of the Oyster Creek pool into dry cask storage, while this incident, dating back to Feb., was effectively kept quiet for three long months?! Clearly, Holtec broke some safety rules too, resulting in the dosing of a worker, as well as the contamination of the facility. Thankfully, this reporter broke the news, or it may have never seen the light of day.

Update on June 10, 2021 by admin

This latest Holtec incident above -- kept quiet for three long months by both Holtec and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- must be added to countless skeletons in Holtec's closet that have come before. See Beyond Nuclear's annotated bibliography on Holtec, here.

Also see Beyond Nuclear's "skeletons in the closet" annotated bibliography on SNC-Lavalin of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Holtec's consortium partner in decommissioning nuclear power plants.

Nancy Vann, an Indian Point watchdog with Safe Energy Rights Group, has also published a "rap sheet" on Holtec and SNC-Lavalin.