In December 2011, the Fukushima reactor was pronounced to be in a state of "cold shutdown".
Can anyone explain, clearly, why the Federal Aviation Administration is in a state of partial shutdown?
"But we do know that the fuel is in a solid state of cold shutdown.
Mr Kan had initially sought to stay in power until the Fukushima nuclear plant has stabilised its reactors and reached a state of "cold shutdown".
Although the government declared on December 16th that the plant had reached a state of "cold shutdown", much of the cooling system is jerry-rigged and probably still not earthquake-proof.
Yellowstone National Park, the Smithsonian, and the National Zoo wouldn't reopen; federal agencies including the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and NASA would remain in a state of partial shutdown; and many furloughed federal employees would stay at home.
First, on April 17th Tokyo Electric Power TEPCOO) laid out a nebulous six-to-nine-month plan to bring its damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear-power plant to a state of cold shutdown, in which it stops leaking radioactive matter.
"But what I want to know is, are they really ready to say this?" Perhaps to give itself some wiggle room, the government is expected to use vague terminology, announcing that the three damaged reactors are in a "state of cold shutdown".
It is now in a state of "cold shutdown".
With relevance to critical illness, the body attempts to deal with 'type I allostatic overload', where metabolic demands exceed supply, by entering a state of metabolic shutdown to restore the energy imbalance.
