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I know nothing about DOE/NRC inspection requirements, but..

> The issue was only "detected", after being covered up for years by falsified reports, when the engineer doing inspections decided to turn himself in.

Is it really policy that the same inspector can be responsible for successive inspections accumulating to years? That would be stark raving insanity for any critical systems.

Financial businesses have a traditional 2-week enforced vacation for critical systems employees. This is not an aggressive work-life balance effort. :)