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How do they not have contact phone numbers for their employees?
Simple, the contact information they had was out of date. Not exactly unexpected, especially if these are employees that have been around a while. Employees would have moved, changed phone numbers, etc. and not all of their info was updated in the people management system they use. Address would be updated for payroll, but an accurate phone number isn't necessary for that, and HR wouldn't know they changed their personal phone number.
Not an issue for daily operations, especially if they're assigned a work device. But that would have been left when they were fired.
Any other industry, I'd agree with you. Nuke workers are subjected to periodic reinvestigations during which you verify or update your vital information, on top of being required to report any significant life changes within thirty days. In my case, this was done every four years at both locations I've worked, so I have reason to believe it would be some similar periodicity for these positions.