Other tenants of the building where high radiation was found last week have been cleared by Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors to continue using their offices.
Executive Director Rick Roeske with the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District, who leases Acuren it’s space, explained his surprise.
Roeske: “Ya know I’ve only been there five months, the way they do that business or industry I wasn’t even aware that they were doing the radiography where they were, so we’re going to probably request that if there were any instances in the future, we actually didn’t find out until KSRM broke the story.”
Roeske told us what understands about the situation.
Roeske: “Acuren had given up its certificate voluntarily, they have to go through corrective actions and if those are done to the satisfaction of the Nuclear Regularoy Commission then they will come back into service. They are talking about possibly doing an addition onto their building to do some radiation containment, I mean they are taking the appropriate steps.”
As we previously reported Acuren ceased its radiography temporarily when the NRC found high radiation levels during a surprise inspection last week.
Roeske said a report is expected to come from the NRC this week.
