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...reactor's power center is its fuel core. Housed in a pressure-cooker-like reactor vessel, the core is filled with pellets of fissionable uranium packed in bundles of thin cylindrical zircaloy rods. Inserted into the core are still other rods, usually made of cadmium or boron, which absorb and retain neutrons given off by the uranium atoms-in effect, stopping the billiards and regulating the intensity of the reaction. To start the reactor, the control rods are raised to precisely calculated levels. The chain reaction begins, converting mass into energy and producing great quantities of heat...
...years ago, America should have gotten the message. Perhaps the idea of bernoose-clad desert dwellers putting a hitch in the Amercan Way of Life was too much for people to absorb. Maybe they believed that the energy crisis was a fiction, created by the greedy oil companies. Whatever people thought then, the country now finds itself stuck with the reality of soaring energy costs, dwindling fossil fuel supplies and no coherent approach to bailing the situation...
...requirements for federal campaign-matching funds by receiving donations of $5,000 or more in 20 states. His war chest bulges with $1.25 million in contributions, more than Reagan has collected. Far more volunteers are trying to board Connally's bandwagon than his underorganized staff can absorb...
...major new industrial projects by 1985. Today the general commitment to modernization remains, but there is apparently a shift in strategies and priorities. The Chinese are suddenly worried about two key problems: 1) How to pay for the transfusion of technology that will be required? 2) How to absorb it into an economy in which education levels are low, "modern" machinery is out of date, and 70% of the labor force still toils in the fields...
While Yale bounded into the ECAC playoffs by virtue of the win, the Crimson was left to absorb a 7-18-1 season and a last place finish in the Ivy League...