The manager of a nuclear power plant defended the claim that the plant was safe by revealing its rate of injury for current workers: only 3  2 injuries per 200, 000 hours of work, a rate less than half the national average for all industrial plants
The manager claimed that, ttherefore, by the standard of how many injuries occur, the plant was safer than most other plants where the employees could work
The exposure of the workers to radiation at nuclear power plants was within levels the government considers safe.