NRC CAL – NOVCP

On September 12, 2019, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty (CP) in the amount of $232,000 to Florida Power and Light (FPL, Licensee) for a Severity Level II violation of NRC requirements involving employee protection. The violation involved a company executive deliberately discriminating against a contract employee for engaging in a protected activity in the Spring of 2017. Specifically, a contract employee who raised safety concerns during the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant (St. Lucie) refueling outage had a scheduled work assignment to the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant cancelled shortly after submitting a condition report at St. Lucie. The NRC determined that the actions of FPL management were, in part, based on the contractor's engagement in a protected activity.