FirstEnergy and Davis-Besse: Ducking Responsibility
TOLEDO — “In the end, not one FirstEnergy bigwig was held to account personally for the near-calamity that shut down the Davis-Besse power plant in 2002. Instead, two former workers have now taken the fall for lying to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about what turned out to be the worst corrosion damage ever found on a U.S. nuclear reactor. But, as we have pointed out before, anyone who believes that the utility’s senior managers and executives were entirely in the dark about what the three underlings were up to is arguably as naive as government regulators who trust utilities to police themselves.
