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August 28, 2008

Nuke plant engineer faces 5-year jail term

  • The worker at the Lake Erie plant mislead regulators about the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor.

    • TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Jurors here have convicted a former nuclear plant engineer of misleading regulators about the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor.

    Federal prosecutors accused Andrew Siemaszko and two other workers of lying in 2001 so the Davis-Besse plant along Lake Erie could delay a shutdown for a safety inspection. Months later, inspectors found an acid leak that nearly ate through the reactor's 6-inch-thick steel cap.


     
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