As soon as the money arrived in the summer of 2009, the retired cold war nuclear plant hired thousands of workers to decommission reactors, install pumps in the liquid waste tanks and ship barrels of solid waste to a salt formation in the Chihuahuan Desert.
His best-known predecessor, Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled from 1965 until 1997 and renamed the country Zaire, was a ruthless crook who fitted his palace with a nuclear shelter, hired Concorde for shopping trips and so gutted the treasury that inflation between October 1990 and December 1995 totalled 6.3 billion per cent.
Here was Iran in the process of building nuclear centrifuges, yet hiring inept assassins in Thailand who had blown up their own home and blown off their own legs?
We don't need to hire nuclear experts but feng shui masters to get rid of the bad luck".
After losing a court battle to be compensated $330 million for the lost profits of a closed nuclear plant, Enron hired a high-powered lobbyist who helped get a special piece of legislation passed to authorize the money.
Greg Kruger, a vice president at the staffing company Adecco, says he's currently hiring for hundreds of jobs related to nuclear construction and engineering.
Westinghouse Electric, a builder of nuclear reactors, expects to hire 350 new employees a year for the foreseeable future.
Florida Power and Light, like the Texas project, was one of the early companies to set up a community college partnership to educate nuclear technicians it then hires.
Member states must be willing to increase their budget contributions so the agency can refurbish its testing laboratory, invest in new technology and hire additional nuclear experts.
10 p.m. | Updated The operator of the Indian Point nuclear power complex has hired former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to vouch for the plant's safety in a new advertising campaign scheduled to begin next week.
Page A24 GIULIANI HIRED FOR PLANT ADS The operator of the Indian Point nuclear power complex has hired former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to vouch for the plant's safety in a new advertising campaign.
