They falsified their safety work at South Florida’s nuclear power plant. Now they’re fired.

Maintenance staff at a South Florida nuclear power plant said they’d performed upkeep on a critical piece of the reactor, but inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found that the crews hadn’t done the work – and instead just filled out paperwork saying they had – according to documents released Friday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (Marcia Heroux Pounds / Courtesy)