Two reactors at the plant will be closed, while a third, already shut down for scheduled inspections, will remain off-line, Mr. Mizuno said.
With the city's tunnels flooded, gasoline becoming scarce and the subway system shut down, suddenly the opener, scheduled for Nov. 1, had to be postponed and all of the excitement seemed to wither away.
Lee P. Brown, the mayor of Houston, stepped in to prevent a scheduled shut down of the ABC television station yesterday by announcing that he had won an agreement from ABC and Time Warner's cable unit to extend their contract in Houston for seven days.
Some old coal-fired power plants will have to be shut down, but many had been scheduled for retirement and others can be retrofitted or replaced with cleaner gas-fired facilities.
That's being reversed now that Kickstarter has bought it the day before it was scheduled to shut down.
The sixth, in Detroit, is an outdated engine plant previously scheduled to be shut down, and Chrysler has already modernized two engine factories nearby and begun transferring workers to them.
It was the physicists' misfortune that the apparent Higgs bosons began turning up only near the highest planned energy of the accelerator, just before it was scheduled to be shut down and demolished in September.
By then, all but one of the UK's existing nuclear power plants are scheduled to have shut down, points out Omar Abbosh of managing consultants Accenture.
Reactor 2 had already been shut down earlier in the week for scheduled maintenance work and refueling, the company said.
In fact, Turkey Point at best will be a tiny island in the Atlantic Ocean long before its new reactors are scheduled to be shut down.
"We have a tired nuclear power plant that was designed to be shut down on schedule in 2012, and we should meet that schedule," he said.
