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Security staff "in the zone" as DEP officials conduct an unannounced inspection...
In events that wouldn't sound out of place in a Simpsons episode, the US governing board, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), today issued a press release questioning the videogame habits of a nuclear power plant staging post officer whilst on the job.
During an unannounced surveillance by the DEP at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, the official safety staff member continually went unnoticed as he approached the post. Although the act doesn't break official guidelines, which permit the use of "electronic devices" to stimulate the mind and attention levels, the report has led to the DEP Secretary, Kathleen A. McGinty, calling for changes to procedure.
"The issue is not the guard's use of the video game, because current procedures don't specifically prohibit those games," McGinty said. "The real issue is that his complete absorption in the game distracted him from noticing the repeated approach of our inspector. And that shows why this procedure needs to be changed and these video games disallowed."
The only responsibility of staging post officers is to respond to regular radio checks to confirm they are attentive and able to respond if necessary; something that the guard in question did perform while the DEP official was present.
Following the report, the DEP has promised to work closely with the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which governs health and safety regulations at all commercial nuclear power plants throughout North America, to review the incident and the policies regarding the use of hand-held electronic devices such as video games.
It's not the first time that the Three Mile Island plant has hit the headlines, suffering a partial core meltdown in 1979; let's just hope that senior staff members aren't allowed to bring their DS' or PSP's to work.
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Added:Sat 23rd Oct 2010 16:18, Post No: 77
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Added:Wed 21st Apr 2010 02:55, Post No: 75
Maybe if Europe wasn't treated with active contempt by Nintendo, the R4 wouldn't be so damn popular, and there'd be a bit more brand loyalty >_>
Added:Tue 20th Apr 2010 13:29, Post No: 74
"**Recently, Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot outlined the problem that they faced with the DS market, albeit not blaming the device specifically:
"The considerable contraction in the DS market during the year particularly affected Ubisoft, leading to a €160 million, or almost 50%, year-on-year drop in the Company’s casual segment sales."**"
I look at this section and think what utter morons ubisoft have working for them.....there is a
world-wide Recession on so casual sales are going to take a huge hit for everyone....not all people can still casually drop the cash for luxuries like new DS carts or X-Box discs etc
Added:Fri 12th Mar 2010 01:50, Post No: 73
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Added:Thu 11th Mar 2010 09:27, Post No: 72
My nindtendo DSi need wireless, system update. Please give me some software to use the nintedo DSi.
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Added:Fri 26th Feb 2010 04:33, Post No: 70
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Added:Thu 10th Dec 2009 12:45, Post No: 69
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Added:Tue 08th Dec 2009 13:05, Post No: 68
What do you want to know - there's hundresd of news stories related to the DS on this index page?!?!