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...called mini steel mills. These comparatively small plants recast scrap steel and iron pellets into finished bars, rods and other products. The minimills are in great demand because they can produce steel much more cheaply than traditional plants with huge blast furnaces, which convert raw iron ore and coal into steel. Danieli has put up mills in 27 countries, including the U.S., the Soviet Union, Burma and Venezuela. In fact, the company has helped design, build or equip about half of the more than 250 minimills in the world...
...outside air rushed in, oxygen in the atmosphere would have fueled a raging fire in the graphite, which burns like coal when ignited, throwing a plume of volatile radioactive elements into the air. U.S. officials calculated that the particulates and gases surged nearly a mile high, where they were caught by prevailing winds and then blown over a wide swath to the northwest...
...largest U.S. railroad union, the 90,000- member United Transportation Union, has decided to uncouple itself from the national labor federation. One of the main reasons for the split is that an AFL-CIO official, Robert Georgine, became vice chairman of the Alliance for Coal and Competitive Transportation, a lobbying group that supports legislation to permit coal-slurry pipelines. Railroad workers oppose the pipelines because they would take coal-hauling business away from trains...
...getting access to the rights to the water, timber, coal and oil that is on their lands. It's entirely couched in legal terms and demands legal interpretation," he said...
...good news is that most U.S. freight trains are diesel powered; at Norfolk Southern Corp., in Norfolk, Va., for example, executives expect that saving from the decrease in diesel prices will be substantial. The bad news for Norfolk Southern is that some 35% to 40% of its freight is coal, and as oil prices have fallen, the volume of domestic coal traffic has begun to head downward...