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TOLEDO, OHIO — Jurors in Toledo, Ohio, 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.
It’s not clear how close the plant was to an accident.
Siemaszko was convicted Tuesday of concealing material information and faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The jury cleared him on two counts of making false statements.
