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When a nuclear reactor is running, its heat comes from the fissioning, or splitting, of the nuclei of uranium or plutonium atoms. These nuclei break apart when bombarded by neutrons, uncharged subatomic particles that are initially provided by a reactor ignition device. The shattered nuclei release energy and emit more neutrons. When uranium atoms are packed closely together, however, as they are in power-plant fuel rods, the neutrons emitted by the splitting nuclei break up other nearby nuclei. Each shattered nucleus contributes more neutrons and heat to what has now become a chain reaction, and the heat is used...
...Kitt Peak telescope had been aimed at what appeared to be two quasars, mysterious, intensely bright bodies so far away that the light they emit travels for billions of years before reaching the earth. Gathered by the telescope's parabolic mirror, the light from each of the quasars was converted into a spectrum, from which a quasar's characteristics and even its distance can be determined. Most scientists believe that each of the some 3,000 known quasars, and thus the spectrum of each, is unique. Says Charles Lawrence, a Caltech astronomer and a co-author of the Nature paper...
...most widely used new urine test, known as EMIT (for Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Test), is believed to be 97% accurate in the best of circumstances. But since laboratory workers often mishandle or accidentally contaminate the samples during analysis, the rate of accuracy may be considerably less. Because of such doubts, few companies fire employees or refuse to hire applicants on the basis of only one test. If the first test indicates drug use, employers generally try to confirm that result with a second urinalysis using a different laboratory technique...
...always, however, seemingly supernatural events have rational explanations. The house is filled with conduits to other worlds. There's the closet, the medicine chest, and the swimming pool, all of which emit slimy ghoulies at the bewitching hour. These ghoulies then attempt to maul, skewer, and ventilate our poor beset upon hero...
Harvard, whose dozen affiliated teaching hospitals each year emit roughly 5000 cubic feet of medically related nuclear waste, had asked the Special Legislative Commission of Low-Level Radioactive Waste to synchronize the search for a waste site and the search for a company to operate the dump...