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...facility at Vernon will be operated by the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation, but suffers from limitations inherent in its fission, boiling water reactor (BWR) design and its peculiar location in the Connecticut River Valley near the Vermont Massachusetts border...
Nuclear power is just another way of boiling water: An atomic reactor sustains a fission reaction which produces heat used to boil water which drives electric turbines in the same way as in traditional, coal-fired plants. All coal contains traces of radioactive carbon, which is released when coal is burned. Recent studies suggest that boiling water reactors will leak over 14,000 times the amount of radioactivity produced by coal burning. Such a reactor is also only about 20 per cent efficient, which means over 80 per cent of the heat generated is wasted and must be released...
Chemical Revolution. Ghiorso, Nuclear Chemist James Harris, Finnish Physicists Matti Nurmia and Kari Eskda, the same team that discovered element 104, suggested that the new element be named hahnium, in honor of Otto Hahn, the German chemist who in 1938 discovered nuclear fission. Ghiorso also took the occasion to disagree with a prior-and tentative -claim by Russian physicists that they had discovered element 105. The Lawrence team, he explained, had been unable to duplicate the Russian experiment, which used less sensitive equipment and produced uncertain results...
...Sept. 15 -Israel detonates a Flouristan 238 Neutrino Anti-matter Fission Device (carried in a briefcase into the middle of the Sinai Peninsula) parting the Red Sea and setting fire to a limited sector of the firmament in what Israeli spokesmen term a "satisfactory test...
...culture. But what a boast! We are not even as far advanced as Belgium. Our steel production is so low. So few people are literate. But now our nation is all ardor: there is a fervent tide. Our nation is like an atom. After the atom's nuclear fission, the thermal energy released will be so formidable that we will be able to accomplish all that we now cannot do." That was Mao's call to accelerate the Great Leap Forward, which soon turned into a great lurch backward. China is only now beginning to recover from...