Radioactivist Vindicated

Radioactivist Vindicated: "Check out Wikipedia's list of nuclear whistleblowers and you'll find an honor roll of nuclear industry insiders--plant workers, scientists, chemists, engineers, laboratory workers, among others--who raised concerns out about the risks to public safety from nuclear power. For speaking out, they were met with retaliation and harassment, on the job and off. They were spied upon, threatened, and in the 1974 case of Kerr-McGee plutonium worker Karen Silkwood, killed. James P. Speegle, a former foreman and painter at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Athens, Ala., raised concerns about plant safety and was fired in 2004. Speegle went to court, and in September the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled against his former employer, the Shaw Group, a global engineering and construction company that provides services to more than 30 nuclear plants across the U.S. The NRC's order followed a ruling by the U.S. Department of Labor in September 2009 that found the Shaw Group had violated federal whistleblower protection law when it fired Speegle in May 2004. The Shaw Group is appealing the labor department ruling, but settled separately with the NRC and agreed to improve how it responds to workers' safety complaints in its nuclear operations. 'I…

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