Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kelly Gilliam, assisted by the Senator's daughter, puts two and E=mc² together and sets out to crack the conspiracy. The couple have to outwit the feds, who spend more time trying to defuse Kelly than the backyard armorers. In the end, on time, a mushroom cloud over Chesapeake Bay provides the adventure with a fissionable finale. Authors Oran and Hoklin, who have both served as congressional aides, do a Capitol job of describing the suites and sours of D.C. The atomic mechanics seem even more plausible: Dan Oran's wife is a nuclear physicist...
...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 the ground and possibly erupts in a geyser of steam and debris upon hitting the ground water, releasing a radioactive cloud into the air. As the final precaution, the reactor and primary loop are shielded by a thick concrete containment dome, which should prevent the venting of any radioactivity into the atmosphere-as long as a meltdown does not occur and if there are no other mishaps or blunders. Obviously, at Three...
...PENDULUM AND THE TOXIC CLOUD by Thomas Whiteside...
...Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud documents, not enough action has yet been taken: "The regulatory process that is supposed to govern the use of the herbicide can be described as almost stalled, having been impeded by disagreement among scientists, by the determination of the chemical manufacturing industry to continue production and sale of the herbicide, by bureaucratic backing and filling . . . and by the Government's own indecisiveness." Nor has there been much concern about the 1976 catastrophe that ruined the Italian town of Seveso, or about discovery of the poison in a chemical soup found in a landfill near...
...injuries and the search for the perfect lineup combination cloud the picture for the Crimson this weekend. While sophomore Jim Curley appears recovered from both a sore ankle and strep throat, senior Andy Chaikovsky's right shoulder remains irritated and senior Scott Walker re-injured a muscle pull in his back during practice Wednesday and may not play...