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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 3, 2022

Three former Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear oversight managers, who were removed from their posts after alerting the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to repeated safety concerns and violations, are now suing the utility in federal court. The trio filed suit last week in U.S. district court, Tennessee Lookout reports. They contend they were ousted from their posts in 2019 and targeted for public humiliation in retaliation for talking to the NRC and the TVA Office of Inspector General about safety concerns and intimidation of other whistleblowers. TVA argues the firings were justified because the workers did not have the needed “skills and abilities” to do the job.