A $1.6 Billion Nuclear Fiasco

Mismanagement and safety lapses endanger an Ohio plant

Looming 479 feet over the Ohio River, the concrete cooling tower of the Wm.

H. Zimmer Nuclear Power Station dwarfs tiny Moscow, Ohio (pop. 326), a village 23 miles east of Cincinnati. But the citizens of Moscow expect the Zimmer plant to change more than the local skyline. When completed, it will not only provide 810 megawatts of power to southern and central Ohio but also bring as many as 20 jobs to Moscow. In addition, notes Mayor Eugene Holland, it will mean more than $500,000 a...

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