Word: poolfuls
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After being nominated by their schools, applicants were interviewed and the pool was narrowed from 138 to 45, Hanafi said...
...Physically, the former President, 86, remains active. He spends a few hours in his office most weekdays and sees occasional visitors. Accompanied by Secret Service agents and his nurse, Reagan strolls in Rancho Park or along the Santa Monica, California, beach. Last summer he still used his backyard pool...
...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...
Northeast eventually made the fuel-pool cooling-system changes Galatis demanded, but the NRC rejected his plea for it to suspend the company's license, insisting that "the relative safety significance" of the fuel-pool issue "is low," a conclusion disputed by a host of industry-watchdog engineers. The "pervasive noncompliance" that Galatis uncovered, the agency admitted, did pose a potential threat to public safety. The NRC informed Galatis in December that its long-term shutdown of Millstone "constitutes a partial grant of the petitioner's requests." The agency is delaying a decision on enforcement actions until the U.S. Attorney...