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...told DeBarba and Kacich that if Northeast tried to resolve its licensing problems through internal paperwork alone, he would oppose it. Northeast had to get a license amendment approved before it could off-load another full core, and time was running out. DeBarba and Kacich called on Galatis and Betancourt to help them write the amendment request. The plan included, for the first time, the cooling-system improvements Galatis had been demanding for three years. It was a kind of victory, but he felt disgusted. "The organizational ethics were appalling," he says. "There's no reason I should have...
...Betancourt was called into DeBarba's office; Roncaioli was present, and DeBarba told Betancourt he was being reassigned. "We want to help you, George," Betancourt recalls DeBarba saying, "but you've got to start thinking 'company.'" It was all very vague and, Betancourt thought, very intimidating. On Aug. 3--the day Betancourt was scheduled to meet with the Office of Investigations--Roncaioli called him to her office again. According to Betancourt, she said she wanted to "reaffirm the meaning" of the DeBarba meeting. Betancourt's wife and children began to be worried that he would be fired...
DeBarba assembled a task force to assess what had to be done to get the pool ready for the overdue off-load, but he kept Galatis and Betancourt off the team. The task force came up with six serious problems, most already raised by Galatis. Scrambling to fix the pool in a few weeks, DeBarba hired extra people. The plant shut down, anticipating permission to move fuel...
...second investigation, the Office of Investigations is looking into Northeast's license violations and the alleged harassment of Galatis and Betancourt. The intense public scrutiny their case has received will, Galatis says, "make it harder for them to sweep this one under...
...hell of an impact," says Betancourt, but "I'm going to lose...