NYT: "A nuclear reactor where a hidden leak caused near-catastrophic corrosion in 2002 has experienced a second bout of the same problem."

The American nuclear industry, primed to begin new construction projects for the first time in 30 years, is about as eager for an operating problem at an old reactor as the oil industry was for a well blowout on the eve of opening the Atlantic coast to oil drilling.

Let's file this under, "worst-case scenarios waiting to happen" — a file that has grown uncomfortably large in recent weeks (see BP calls blowout disaster 'inconceivable,' 'unprecedented,' and unforeseeable).

New York Times