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This is how it works. Even the best records available today are recorded by the analog method invented by Thomas Edison about a century ago. With analog, sound is reproduced by recording the vibrations made by the sound waves, which were collected by young Tom and his associates through a horn, and then directed to a needle pressed against a metal cylinder wrapped in tin foil. The sound waves caused the needle to vibrate and to trace a wavy groove on the soft surface of the cylinder. This is kindergarten stuff, even allowing for the introduction of magnetic tape...
...microwaves. At Sandia Labs, in New Mexico, the DOE is testing components for future solar-power tower systems. Large arrays of computer-directed mirrors, or heliostats, reflect and concentrate the sunlight on a tower containing a steam boiler linked to an electricity-producing turbine. This October, Southern California Edison Co. will start building the nation's first such device linked to a power grid. Located in Daggett, Calif., it will have as many as 1,800 mirrors and during the day should generate 10 megawatts of power, enough for the needs of several thousand homes. Cost: $116 million...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission provided disturbing new details on the initial performance of Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's beleaguered operator. Midway through the first critical day, the hot, uranium-filled core, normally bathed in pressurized cooling water, was left dangerously uncovered for as long as 50 minutes; controllers had shut off the emergency core cooling system, probably because of ambiguous or misleading instrument readings. It was during this period that much of the damage was done to the fuel rods, causing a release of radiation...
Three of the plants-in Arkansas, Florida and Ohio-are already shut down for routine maintenance or refueling. So too are Metropolitan Edison's two reactors at Three Mile Island: one because of the March 28 accident, its twin for refueling and maintenance. Thus the NRC's order means an additional loss of only four nuclear plants-California's Rancho Seco and Duke Power's three Oconee reactors in South Carolina-out of 72 nuclear plants licensed to operate across the U.S., including five on the East Coast temporarily shut for earthquake safety studies. All together...
Metropolitan Edison, which operates the Three Mile Island plant, had pressed Unit 2 into regular service last Dec. 30. By meeting the year-end deadline, the utility qualified for $17 million to $28 million in 1978 tax investment credits, plus $20 million in depreciation deductions. It also got approval for a $49 million rate increase. "There was no question that there was strong incentive for the company to get that plant on line fast," contended David Barasch, an attorney for Pennsylvania's state Consumer Advocate office...