Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MIRACULOUS chain of events which focused world attention on Three Mile Island may eventually prove a blessing. With public interest in the atomic energy issue aroused by the newly released movie, The China Syndrome, the latest in a long series of nuclear-related miscues received an inordinate share of media attention. Three Mile Island was the symbol of all that was wrong (or could go wrong) with a nuclear reactor: the anti-nuclear activists couldn't have staged a better dramatization of their fears...
...Times's sports features man. Tony Kornheiser, is glancing nervously at her and pacing around the room. She's talking with him every so often about what's good and what's not so good with his piece. She's just sitting there reading and talking and chain-smoking and editing. You'd never know she was in charge...
...slightest hint of trouble, the reactor's computer is programmed to drop the control rods back into the core. That curtails the core's chain reaction, but heat is still given off. If the core's temperature rises precipitously as a result of the problem, possibly a loss of cooling fluid (a "blowdown"), the computer will activate an emergency core cooling system. That system should quickly dump thousands of gallons of water on the hot core, preventing what has become known as a "meltdown," in which the fuel melts through the floor of the containment building into...
...unaffected." Also, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the emissions from the Three Mile Island plant involved only the inert gases krypton and xenon, which are thought to cause little damage to tissue, and not particles of radioactive iodine and strontium, both of which can enter the food chain. Radiation Biologist and Pediatrician Robert Brent of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College agrees that the health risks are small, but says that "one of the worst effects is that people are afraid...
...Attorney's office came after ISC again last year. Officials of a petroleum-trading subsidiary called Yen-Fuel were indicted on several counts of fraudulently importing oil into the U.S. as part of the "daisy-chain" swindles that involved several small oil firms...