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Beyond Zimmer's financial debacle lies the issue of shoddy construction at the plant. In an effort to contain costs, Cincinnati Gas tried to skimp on quality-control measures and personnel. In November 1981, the NRC fined the utility $200,000 after discovering the first of some 15,000 violations of its quality-assurance regulations. A year later, the commission halted construction because of Cincinnati Gas' continued failure to meet its quality guidelines, the first time that the NRC had ever taken such a step when construction was so far advanced. Some of the steel used at Zimmer...
...construction problems were discovered almost by accident. Private Detective Thomas Applegate, 32, hired by Cincinnati Gas in 1979, concluded that safety-related building lapses posed a greater danger to the plant than the doctored timecards he had been directed to investigate. The utility ignored Applegate's allegations and fired...
Prodded by Devine's charges, the NRC made a second investigation and discovered that Cincinnati Gas did not keep proper records of the welds or of the origin of materials used at the plant, and did not test welds according to NRC specifications. The agency labeled the quality of work at Zimmer "indeterminate...