That (patio block catastrophe) never should have happened.
For however long the plant operates, we have sufficient room to store things, but that's not the desirable option.
The specifications haven't lessened. The NRC grades us on inspections. If we missed one, it would be a serious violation.
People paying electric bills have been paying a fee into a DOE fund and there's been somewhere between $18 and $20 billion collected by the federal government for the purpose of shipping and storing fuel.
We've become much better at doing the work online. The whole industry is moving to more online maintenance. In a regulated environment, it wasn't as important to have short outages. We do the same work, but we're online now.
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