Inspectors from the state government visited the plant when Bart caught Blinky the Three-Eyed Fish in the river near the plant, and a local reporter published a story about the fish. The inspectors found a large number (342) of safety violations (including the geiger counters detecting an immense amount of radiation before the inspectors even enter the plant, gum being used to seal a crack in the cooling tower, a plutonium rod being used as a paperweight, the pipes leaking highly corrosive radioactive waste, Sector 7-G's monitoring station was unmanned (due to Homer sleeping on the Job) as well as an entire room being flooded with nuclear waste.) which Mr. Burns was legally required to fix, and the total cost was just over fifty-six million dollars. The experience motivated Burns to run fo