Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Millstone scandal began when Galatis blew the whistle on Northeast's 20-year habit of breaking safety rules during routine refueling operations at Millstone 1--moving all of the radioactive fuel rods into the plant's spent-fuel storage pool even though the pool, crowded with thousands of old fuel rods, was licensed to handle the full core only on an emergency basis. To save precious off-line minutes, Northeast would start moving the fuel so quickly after shutdown that the heat melted a worker's protective boots...
...Galatis saw it, the fuel pool needed a beefed-up cooling system to make full-core offloads safe. The company brought in consultants to discredit him, but they ended up agreeing with Galatis. Incredibly, NRC inspectors and senior staff members had long known about the plant's refueling practice but "didn't realize" it was a violation, according to an NRC inspector-general report. James Taylor, the agency's executive director for operations, and William Russell, director of nuclear-reactor regulation, had been aware of Millstone's declining safety standards for at least five years but took no action...
...engages in some sketchy practices, listen to this recent incident of national fame: a week and a half ago, the F.B.I. released a "terrorist threat advisory" and a composite sketch of two men believed to be driving a U-Haul truck filled with enough ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel to blow up several small homes or one larger government complex--a bomb potentially on par with the one that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City only two years ago. After catching the men, the armed Federal agents discovered--much to their embarrassment, I would imagine--that...
...motivating force for the red-alert was a phone call from a "credible" man who believed that he saw potentially explosive nitrate in the U-Haul of two men who were also buying diesel fuel, a necessary second ingredient for any high-quality bomb. Once the F.B.I. issued the terrorist advisory, hundreds of people from across the country called in leads to help with the search. (What a pity that the men were only loading their truck with the gas necessary to run their equipment and not conspiring world domination...
...mother showed up in the U.S. press questioning his policies. She told the Washington Post that she is no longer proud of her son, that peace with the Arabs is absurd, and that the release of Palestinian "terrorists" rendered the death of her first son meaningless. More fuel was added to the fire Monday, when Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank ran into a dead end as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected plans to remove troops from just over nine percent of West Bank territory. Denouncing the move as "a trick," Arafat fumed that the Israeli government had breached...