Word: fermi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MELTDOWN AT MONTAGUE, however, does not indulge in scare tactics. The possibility of a meltdown, while admittedly slight, does exist. Many people forget the two near-disasters within the last 12 years: in 1966 the Fermi reactor near Detroit suffered a partial meltdown; in 1974 the Browns' Ferry reactor in Alabama went completely out of control when a careless maintenance worker started a fire among the cables used to dampen the reaction, knocking out both the primary and secondary safety systems. Plant engineers later said it was a miracle that they managed to regain control over the reactor before...
...Mafia!" One would almost expect to see "Spies" or "Micks" in a subsequent issue. Is no heritage sacred to you? Must we forever defend our background? Are we doomed to keep listing our contributions to mankind: Michelangelo, Marconi, Fermi...
Twice a week Betty S., a 42-year-old artist from Chicago, makes the 30-mile trip between her home and Batavia, Ill. There she enters a large concrete-lined room in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, takes a seat in what resembles nothing so much as an electric chair, and waits while a technologist helps her don a mask that holds her face totally immobile. Just before the platform under the chair is lowered beneath floor level, the growth in her throat is located by X ray and pinpointed by three intersecting low-power laser beams. Then Betty...
This semester he will be jetting around the country to oversee some of his research, in addition to lecturing three times a week. Part of the plane hopping involves a trip to the Fermi Laboratory in Chicago every other weekend...
More recent and contemporary figures include Perry Como, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Jerry Vale, Liza Minelli, and Frank Sinatra. The atomic bomb was in part the work of Enrico Fermi who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction in America and who was present at the Los Alamos testing grounds. Fermi received the coveted Nobel Prize for Physics...