Is Nuclear Safety Culture Suffering Under the Weight of the Biden Vaccine Mandate?Given the stakes, Biden’s vaccine mandate should be immediately terminated and those executives who used it to harm their employees should be held accountable.
By Tommy Waller
January 9, 2022
The American nuclear industry has a track record of being one of the safest and most secure power producers in the United States. That decades-long track record may soon change due to the deleterious effects of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Those who operate nuclear facilities are highly trained and hard-to-replace engineers, operators, and technicians. Those who guard nuclear facilities and various types of nuclear materials are a mix of civil servants who work for the federal government and highly trained contractors with decades of experience. They maintain some of the highest-level security clearance requirements possible for American citizens. All these personnel are hard to replace, critical thinkers who conduct high stakes risk analysis and risk mitigation for a living.
So, when faced with the risk versus reward decision regarding whether to take the COVID-19 vaccine, many of them have opted not to take the experimental drug. With Executive Order 14042, which mandates the vaccine for federal contractors, many of these personnel sought exemptions on religious, medical, or other grounds. The response from “leaders” in the government and industry has been troubling, especially at an important nuclear industrial complex in the state of South Carolina.
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Given the exceptionally high level of national security, nuclear safety, and environmental protection issues the site faces, the Savannah River Site’s leaders and managers are expected to uphold an overall net-positive “nuclear safety culture” which promotes critical thinking, upholds the U.S. and state constitutions and law, keeps promises, and takes care of the welfare of employees and the local community.
Unfortunately, according to several current and former employees of various contractors at the site, the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate is causing these leaders to do the opposite.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/09/is-nuclear-safety-culture-suffering-under-the-weight-of-the-biden-vaccine-mandate/
