A few quotes from My Diary:
"PG&E painted a rosy picture of the nuclear facility, having to frequently lie about what was actually taking place at the plant. The AEC went along with this charade of safety and efficiency because it was the agency's foremost imperative to promote Humboldt Bay's failed and dangerous technology at the expense of employee and public safety." [The Author, p.162]
"When I find out an AEC inspection is coming and we get a tentative date, I notify the supervisors and say in the message, be sure your house is in order, fellows." [Edgar Weeks, Humboldt Bay Nuclear Plant Engineer, p.291]
"One would think PG&E's nuclear house should have always been in order, 24-7. Well, it wasn't! But that wasn't a problem for PG&E because the nuclear plant was given advance notice of inspections by the AEC compliance office." [The Author, p.87]
After the author told the AEC Investigator that employees were not allowed to talk to AEC compliance inspectors when they came to our plant, and plant management did not reveal the contamination problems that employees had cleaned up prior to the inspection, the AEC Investigator's response was, "Well, if they cleaned it up, what's your point?" [John J. Ward, AEC Investigator, p.116]
What was my point? "The AEC inspectors should be looking at the plant in its normal state of operation and not in 'some phony prepared state' just for the inspection." [The Author, p.116]
". . . I told you that it was inadvisable for you to talk to the AEC compliance inspectors . . ." [Edgar Weeks, Humboldt Bay Nuclear Plant Engineer, p.117]
"The fact that Mr. Gail Allen, PG&E's Radiation Protection Engineer, directed his nuclear control technicians to take samples in the areas of the cask previously determined to have the least amount of contamination (which were sill above the DOT limits) and to specifically avoid those areas that had much higher levels of radioactive contamination (areas that represented more than a third of the spent fuel shipping cask's outside surfaces) was dishonest and illegal. And clearly, the support of his second-line supervisor was at the very least, unforgivable." [The Author, p.160]
"Well, according to my understanding of Mr. Allen's own memorandum, he was precisely trying to do something dishonest." [D.F.M. Hanley, Referee, California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, p.154]
"Let there be no mistake about what happened, the company deliberately sold radioactively contaminated scrap metal to an unsuspecting local scrap metal dealer in Eureka and after it was discovered PG&E intentionally covered it up." [The Author, p.174]
"That is one of the things that always gets you in trouble, Bob." [Edgar Weeks, Humboldt Bay Nuclear Plant Engineer, p.174]
"When I presented my theories to PG&E's radiation protection engineer, Mr. Gail Allen, he was adamant that these mysterious particles we were finding in the plant, were from the fallout of the atomic testing being done by the Chinese. His response, and the manner in which he gave it, left me with the unmistakable impression there had already been considerable discussion of all this in the front office of the plant." [The Author, p.199]
"Both have made unproven accusations about conditions being unsafe. For example, the high level radiation-waste storage vault and the fallout near the school and the recommendation for monitoring equipment there." [John Kamberg, PG&E Humboldt Bay Nuclear Instrumentation Foreman, p. 226]
"When PG&E's nuclear PLANT MANAGEMENT failed to effectively deal with us on its own terms, then the company's CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS took over and proceeded to equate our safety concerns with dissent, and dissent with conspiracy; a conspiracy to do harm to the company and its nuclear program and facilities." [The Author, p.223]
"This is the first I've heard about this, and I'm really pissed off about this. I've got a pregnant wife at home and I don't want to be bringing this stuff home. I want an answer about this. I want to know who can give me a definite answer." [Virgil Teague, PG&E Humboldt Bay Electrician, p.203]
"My hellish PG&E experience eventually let me to the conclusion that PG&E's corporate culture, especially at the upper levels of management, could more adequately be described as a corporate cult." [The Author, p.260]
"Eureka Police Chief Cedric Emahiser had taken the PG&E report in good faith, later having the feeling he had been used." [William Rodgers, University of Washington Law School Professor, p.247]
"When I find out an AEC inspection is coming and we get a tentative date, I notify the supervisors and say in the message, be sure your house is in order, fellows." [Edgar Weeks, Humboldt Bay Nuclear Plant Engineer, p.291]
"One would think PG&E's nuclear house should have always been in order, 24-7. Well, it wasn't! But that wasn't a problem for PG&E because the nuclear plant was given advance notice of inspections by the AEC compliance office." [The Author, p.87]
After the author told the AEC Investigator that employees were not allowed to talk to AEC compliance inspectors when they came to our plant, and plant management did not reveal the contamination problems that employees had cleaned up prior to the inspection, the AEC Investigator's response was, "Well, if they cleaned it up, what's your point?" [John J. Ward, AEC Investigator, p.116]
What was my point? "The AEC inspectors should be looking at the plant in its normal state of operation and not in 'some phony prepared state' just for the inspection." [The Author, p.116]
". . . I told you that it was inadvisable for you to talk to the AEC compliance inspectors . . ." [Edgar Weeks, Humboldt Bay Nuclear Plant Engineer, p.117]
"The fact that Mr. Gail Allen, PG&E's Radiation Protection Engineer, directed his nuclear control technicians to take samples in the areas of the cask previously determined to have the least amount of contamination (which were sill above the DOT limits) and to specifically avoid those areas that had much higher levels of radioactive contamination (areas that represented more than a third of the spent fuel shipping cask's outside surfaces) was dishonest and illegal. And clearly, the support of his second-line supervisor was at the very least, unforgivable." [The Author, p.160]
"Well, according to my understanding of Mr. Allen's own memorandum, he was precisely trying to do something dishonest." [D.F.M. Hanley, Referee, California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, p.154]
"Let there be no mistake about what happened, the company deliberately sold radioactively contaminated scrap metal to an unsuspecting local scrap metal dealer in Eureka and after it was discovered PG&E intentionally covered it up." [The Author, p.174]
"That is one of the things that always gets you in trouble, Bob." [Edgar Weeks, Humboldt Bay Nuclear Plant Engineer, p.174]
"When I presented my theories to PG&E's radiation protection engineer, Mr. Gail Allen, he was adamant that these mysterious particles we were finding in the plant, were from the fallout of the atomic testing being done by the Chinese. His response, and the manner in which he gave it, left me with the unmistakable impression there had already been considerable discussion of all this in the front office of the plant." [The Author, p.199]
"Both have made unproven accusations about conditions being unsafe. For example, the high level radiation-waste storage vault and the fallout near the school and the recommendation for monitoring equipment there." [John Kamberg, PG&E Humboldt Bay Nuclear Instrumentation Foreman, p. 226]
"When PG&E's nuclear PLANT MANAGEMENT failed to effectively deal with us on its own terms, then the company's CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS took over and proceeded to equate our safety concerns with dissent, and dissent with conspiracy; a conspiracy to do harm to the company and its nuclear program and facilities." [The Author, p.223]
"This is the first I've heard about this, and I'm really pissed off about this. I've got a pregnant wife at home and I don't want to be bringing this stuff home. I want an answer about this. I want to know who can give me a definite answer." [Virgil Teague, PG&E Humboldt Bay Electrician, p.203]
"My hellish PG&E experience eventually let me to the conclusion that PG&E's corporate culture, especially at the upper levels of management, could more adequately be described as a corporate cult." [The Author, p.260]
"Eureka Police Chief Cedric Emahiser had taken the PG&E report in good faith, later having the feeling he had been used." [William Rodgers, University of Washington Law School Professor, p.247]