The whistle-blower who taped his fellow guards sleeping on the job at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant was fired, prompting anger from government watchdogs who say he should have been a hero.

Kerry Beal, who secretly videotaped guards sleeping near the nuclear reactor at Peach Bottom this summer, had his computer hard drive seized as part of the federal investigation into the plant after the videos were leaked to a New York TV station in September.