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2nd man charged for fake records at TVA nuke plant, Bloomberg, By BILL POOVEY, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 28 Sept 11,  A second contractor employee at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant has been charged with falsifying electrical cable inspection records …

Court records show John E. Delk, a crew supervisor for Williams Specialty Services of Tucker, Ga., was charged with the felony offense of knowingly and willfully certifying work that he knew had not been completed at the nation’s only current nuclear reactor construction project….

Another former employee of the same subcontractor, electrician Matthew Correll, in an agreement with prosecutors pleaded guilty in June to falsifying records at the Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor project. His sentencing is set Oct. 6 in Chattanooga…..

Correll’s plea agreement showed that he made about 200 falsified entries about cables that were installed to provide energy, in some cases to safety equipment, inside the containment structure for the unfinished reactor at the nuclear plant between Chattanooga and Knoxville…..