Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scandal broke, called the TIME story "a wake-up call" and "a learning moment." Revving up its inspection program at Millstone, her agency found such pervasive noncompliance that it ordered all three plants there to shut down for sweeping repairs. A year later, Northeast is facing $1 billion in shutdown costs; the Millstone plants remain idle, with thousands of compliance problems still to be resolved; and a fourth Northeast reactor, Connecticut Yankee, has been permanently mothballed...
...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...
...editorial deadline, so Gwynne had to fashion most of his story without knowing whether the pilots would walk out. "I reported it as though we were heading toward a major strike," he says, "while at the same time rooting for them to find a way to avert a shutdown. I found myself in the odd position of hoping that most of the work I was doing wouldn't be necessary by the end of the week...
...Worried about the economic impact of losing 20 percent of the nation's airline capacity overnight, Clinton has asked for a detailed estimate of a strike's economic impact, but is so far dancing around whether he will step in before the midnight Friday deadline. A shutdown at American could ruin the season for the travel industry in the Caribbean and Colorado, where the airline provides about half the service. Neither side is optimistic that a settlement will be reached. Pilots have been advising passengers to rebook their weekend flights with other airlines, while American has already begun canceling both...
...Capitol Hill and his rapport with Clinton. When Panetta was elevated to chief of staff, however, his replacement, Alice Rivlin, lacked the political acumen to translate her economic credentials into real sway. She was not even invited to the negotiations with G.O.P. congressional leaders during last winter's government shutdown...