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...there is potential danger in any nuclear plant. After it has run for a while, the fuel in its core (Con Ed plans to use 113 tons of uranium oxide) is contaminated with fiercely radioactive fission products. If this unpleasant stuff got spread around the countryside by any sort of explosion, it would do as much harm as the fallout from an atom bomb. Millions of people live within a few miles of Con Ed's projected installation. To reduce this danger to a minimum, the plant proposed for the Borough of Queens, on New York's East...
...inch thick separated by 2 ft. of porous concrete. Pumps will draw from the concrete any radioactive gas that seeps into it. And outside all this will be 5½ ft. of concrete strongly reinforced with a network of steel bars. The great dome will be strong enough, say Con Ed engineers, to hold the most violent explosion that could possibly happen inside, and it will be tight enough to keep any trace of radioactive gas from reaching the outdoors. In normal operation, except for diluted gases discharged up a 500-ft. smokestack and harmless amounts of waste washed away...
...types of water reactors in a competition that one engineer says "is reducing costs faster than scientists ever could." Westinghouse holds an edge in the U.S. market: it won the last three contracts (for Connecticut Yankee and the two Los Angeles plants), and has an inside track on Con Ed's New York plant, for which it did the design research. The two companies are knocking heads over Jersey Central's reactor; for General Electric's prestige, that contract is almost a must...
...turned surviving churches into conservative, defensive ghettos that held to the faith through periodic persecutions and dreamed of the lost grandeur that was Greece. The gradual rift between Rome and the churches of the East-made final in 1054 when a huffy papal legate excommunicated the Patriarch of Con stantinople-cut Orthodoxy off from the intellectual revolution that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the last 46 years, Communism has turned the largest Orthodox churches-of Russia and the Balkan countries-into compliant captives of a totalitarian regime...
Island of Love is a big-time operator's manual on how to turn a drowsy little Greek island into the Catskills of the charter-flight set. Con Man Robert Preston and his pal Tony Randall seed the waters around the island with phony erotic antiques to revive a legend that the place used to be an old Aegean orgy ground. With the innocent help of Georgia Moll, the trick works, and soon the island is swinging with so many foreign tourists in native costume that it resembles United Nations Day at a free-love camp. Everybody is holding...