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ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. nuclear regulators have issued a Georgia nuclear plant with a $104,000 fine for losing highly radioactive parts of fuel rods.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Friday the fine against Southern Nuclear Operating Company Inc., owner and operator of the Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Ga.
In a statement explaining the fine, the NRC said an inspection that wrapped up in August discovered 18 inches of fragments from spent fuel rods in the cooling pool could not be accounted for.
"The high radiation level of the material would have made theft or diversion difficult, dangerous and highly unlikely," the NRC statement said.
"Southern Nuclear failed to keep records and implement adequate procedures for tracking the spent fuel segments from November 1981 until the company's records review in 2004 and physical inventory in 2005, and those discrepancies resulted in the violation," the statement said.
NRC Region II Administrator William Travers sent a letter to Southern claiming the company could have discovered the problem earlier.
Southern has 30 days to contest the penalty or pay it.
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