Word: core
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During routine maintenance or refueling of a nuke, lowering a reactor's normal operating temperatures of about 315° C (600° F) is as simple as the binary code of the computer that does most of the work. Control rods are automatically dropped into the fuel core, which in effect douses its nuclear fires by stopping the fissioning of uranium atoms. Within several hours the temperature drops to 140° C (280° F). Then fresh coolant water is pumped through the reactor's heat exchanger (or steam generator) until the reactor's temperature dwindles to a still warm 65° C (150?...
...will go no further than Tuesday's preliminary discussion with the issue this year, although Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, promised to keep the committee's comments in mind this summer when he works on developing new Core courses...
...would show support for the amorality of President Bok's March 9 letter to the Harvard community, for the obfuscation of the Corporation in naming the Engelhard Library, and for the University's consistent disregard of student opinion in almost every major issue from South African investments to the Core Curriculum...
...first priority of the organizations '30 core members is to collect signatures on a petition addressed to Carter and King condemning nuclear power, which they will present during a rally at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. Mass., on June 3, a day of international protest...
...events of April 1969 "shattered Harvard's consensus" and "left many wounds," as Pipes says, there is uncertainty over the extent to which those cleavages remain. Within the Faculty, a few professors may bear old grudges--but reaction to the Core Curriculum, for instance, has not broken down along the old "liberal" and "conservative" lines. Wilson notes that he is working closely with old antagonists from 1969, such as Government Professors Michael L. Walzer and Stanley Hoffmann...