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McDermott, Inc.

NRC Violations at Babcock & Wilcox Facility in Lynchburg, VA

Date: 01/11/2010 (Date of Notice of Violation)

Misconduct Type: Labor

Enforcement Agency: NRC

Contracting Party: None

Court Type: Administrative

Amount: $35,000

Disposition: Fine

Synopsis: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposed a $35,000 civil penalty against power generation company Babcock & Wilcox for waiting more than two hours to declare an emergency during an incident involving uranium at its Lynchburg, Va., facility in July 2009. According to the NRC, the company did not declare an alert emergency until more than two hours after workers discovered that a saw used to cut fuel components discharged oil containing a small amount of highly enriched uranium into a container. The NRC identified three other violations but because of actions taken by Babcock & Wilcox to correct them, the NRC did not propose civil penalties for those violations. Babcock & Wilcox is a subsidiary of McDermott International Inc.