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Marciano also blamed utility lines from the city of Cambridge for the back-up. "When the main water lines are blocked, everything goes wrong," he said.
Edward McLoughlin, a worker at Cambridge Public Utilities, said, however, he heard nothing about a back-up in city water mains that could have contributed to the Winthrop House problem. "I'd be sure to know if such a thing were true, and I know of no blockage," he added...
That gloomy scenario is, happily, still no more than hypothetical. But could such a blowdown, as scientists call it, really occur? Most officials say the risk is infinitesimally small. Even if a loss of coolant did occur, the reactor's back-up emergency core cooling system would presumably swing into...
Last week, near snow-swept Mud Lake, Idaho, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission undertook to allay fears. It staged a nuclear accident in miniature, deliberately sabotaging a small test reactor's primary cooling system to see if the back-up system would avert a blowdown.
The Urban League has called for mandatory integration quotas, and the state board believes there should at least be back-up planning for a mandatory program. Hannon insists that quality education is more important than racial balance. Emphatically, he says: "If we get a program that is 99% black, and...