You cant say that about any other sport

The drywell is a bulb-shaped, steel liner that surroundsthe reactor vessel. GPU fixed the corrosion by removing a sand bed, whichsurrounded the lower part of the liner, scraping off the rustand applying an epoxy coating on the outside of the drywell. Last week, Exelon submitted a three-dimensional analysis tothe NRC showing Oyster Creek's drywell shell was thick enoughto allow for continued operation of the reactor for anadditional 20 years. Also last week, the NRC reported the drywell liner was safefor operation at least though 2012 when the company plans toinspect the liner again during a refueling outage.

The companyhowever could decide to inspect the liner sooner during thenext refueling now scheduled for 2010. Exelon is still waiting for the NRC commissioners to makedecisions on the renewal application and its proposal toregularly inspect the drywell. The 619-megawatt Oyster Creek entered service in 1969making it the oldest operating nuclear reactor in the nation.It is located in Forked River in Ocean County about 60 mileseast of Philadelphia One MW powers about 800 homes in New Jersey. Exelon, of Chicago, owns and operates more than 38,000 MWof generating capacity, markets energy commodities. Ittransmits and distributes electricity to 5.4 million anddistributes natural gas to 480,000 customers in Illinois andPennsylvania.

(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by David Gregorio) Stocks. ) "Nirvana" - a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world. - Webster'sDictionaryIf you are a sports fan, then October is Nirvana.The NFL and College Football are in full swing. You have the NLDS, ALDS, NLCS, ALCS, and ultimately, the World Series. Finally, you have the NHL and NBA kicking off. What could be better But this year, to put some icing on the cake, the Presidents Cup is being held. There would be a picture of me under the definition of couch potato during October. Allow me to recap the cornucopia of sports I witnessed last week.Starting last Tuesday, I watched the Twins and Tigers battle for the last playoff spot. What, they could not figure it out after playing 162 games so they had to go to a 163rd game to determine the winner of the American League Central And even then, it took three extra innings to determine a winner in game 163. Guys being thrown at home, pitchers getting out of bases loaded situations, it was one of the most exciting baseball games I ever witnessed. I knew it was going to be a good week of sports.On Wednesday, there were only three baseball playoff games available. 10 hours of playoff baseball. But they did not overlap so I could tune into all three (can you tell I am currently unemployed). It is amazing how much the energy gets amped up in baseball once the playoffs start. It is a whole different game. Every play is important. The conflicts of the sporting events start on Thursday. There are three more baseball playoff games, the Presidents Cup kicks off , and the Missouri-Nebraska comes on at 6PM PT. Rut roh, what do I watch Well I Tivoed the Presidents Cup. And I would watch it in fast speed in between innings of the baseball games (after all it is only the first round of five rounds to be played). I was back and forth between the Missouri-Nebraska and the Boston-LA Angels game. Now generally I would not be interested in some Big 12 College football game, but I had Missouri in my college football confidence ranking pool so I had to keep an eye on that. Friday rolls around and there were only two baseball games and the Presidents Cup. I focused my viewing efforts on golf. Besides it being the Presidents Cup, admittedly it is the red headed step child to the Ryder Cup, it was being played in my home region of San Francisco at Harding Park Golf Course.

I frequented the Harding park course when I lived in the City So this had a little more intrigue for me. A little aside: I believe that one of the fascinating aspects about golf is that amateurs can actually play on the same venue as the tour players. You cant say that about any other sport. You cant go to Oracle Arena and start a pickup basketball game. You cant go into Candlestick Park for a game of touch football. You cant go into ATT Park and throw a ball around and take batting practice. But you can play golf at the exact same venue as Tiger Woods. Now I know that we do not play under the same conditions, the length of the course, the speed of the greens, or the length of the rough. However, we can walk down the same fairways, putt on the same greens and once in awhile have the same shot that we saw on TV. I have played at Harding Park, Poipu Bay, Olympic Club, Torrey Pines, Stanford, and Pebble Beach. All venues the greatest golfer in the world also played. Saturday comes along and I do need to get some exercise before my wife has to call someone to surgically remove the couch from my butt. So I get up early and go play golf. But with the magic of TIVO, I can get back and watch the both rounds of the Presidents Cup. And what matches they were! Tiger Woods is the most amazing athlete in any sport of our time. The putt he made on 17 to extend the match was amazing; but to follow up with the 240 yard four-iron that he put 10 feet from the cup for an eagle chance took his legend up another level. Fortunately my wife does like to watch the premier golf events so we shared a nice bottle of wine, bar-b-qued a nice steak and watched the end of the second round of the golf match. We got to know each other a little bit again. The weather helped me out with baseball so there was only one game on St Louis and LA Dodgers. I was going back and forth between the baseball game and golf but I think the Cardinals packed it in after the way they lost on Thursday. So it is not much of a game.With the technological wonder of ESPN 360 I could watch and keep up with all the college games that were in my pool right on my computer (I finished the weekend 202nd out of 360 people in the pool. It was not my best week at picking the winners). With access to games on the Internet, with high def TV, with text messages updating you on your fantasy players statusdo we live in great times or what On Sunday, I get up and set my lineup for my fantasy football and then go out for another round of golf. I get back and turn on the Presidents Cup about an hour into the matches. It is apparent this was going to be the Americans year. They took a commanding lead and had the Cup wrapped pretty early. So though I was watching the matches, I was also flipping back and forth between the golf and the NFL games (I have NFL Sunday ticket and I get EVERY NFL game on TV). Nothing really exciting going on with the NFL games so I switch over to watch the Boston-LA Angel game while monitoring my fantasy teamonline.