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...alcohol coolant is run through the balloon for an hour. Then, after five minutes for thawing, the balloon is pulled out. The patient can get up at once and leave the hospital or clinic. Within two hours he can eat a hearty meal...
...exhaust pipes. To differentiate it from the standard Pontiacs. which have new prow-shaped grilles, the Grand Prix grille is split by a vertical wedge. Like most 1962 cars, Pontiacs have such improved maintenance features as 35.000-mile chassis-lubrication intervals, 4.000-mile oil changes and two-year radiator coolant...
...safe" device known to science. What went wrong with SL-1? Although technicians could stay in the building for only brief periods, everything they saw suggested that the impossible had happened: the reactor had suddenly boiled up in a runaway atomic reaction. In thousandths of a second, its water coolant had been turned into superheated steam that ruptured the reactor tank. Best guess was that some of the cadmium control rods (which are inserted to stop the nuclear reaction) had somehow been lifted out of position...
...would be similar to tapping the heat of molten rocks created by a man-made blast. Rawson and Higgins set up a gasoline-driven rotary drilling rig in the middle of Kilauea Iki's cone on the steaming crust of the lava pool. Using compressed air as a coolant, they drilled a 3½-in. hole into the crust at the tedious rate of 1½ ft. every eight hours. The 1,652° heat damaged the diamond bits and jammed pipe threads, forcing a switch to powdered graphite as a lubricant. At nearly 17 ft., Rawson and Higgins...
...Alamos' Omega West is a swimming-pool-type research reactor whose fuel rods are suspended under 25 ft. of water, which acts not only as coolant and moderator but also shields its human operators from radioactivity. In the spring of 1958, physicists peering down through it saw that the water was getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding...