Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure of the plane's whereabouts. "Do you know where it is?" Aden asked Saudi Arabia, which replied: "We lost him." In fact, Charlie Echo had headed for Aden, capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (Southern Yemen), with a ten-minute supply of fuel left. This time the skyjackers refused to take no for an answer when they asked to land. "We are coming in," shouted Mahmud at the Aden tower. "I repeat, we are coming...
During that period, the behavior of the hijackers became increasingly erratic and menacing as another deadline approached. At one point, they tied the hostages' hands behind their backs with stockings and doused them with the remaining liquor aboard, apparently to help fuel the flames if they set the plane afire. The terrorists later untied the hostages, after being told by a West German diplomat in the control tower that Bonn would release eleven prisoners and fly them to Mogadishu. Mahmud consulted his "committee" and agreed to put off the deadline once more, this time until 2:30 a.m. Tuesday...
Examples like these underscore one of the most frightening challenges of the atomic age: how to get rid of a rising flood of radioactive sludge that results from reprocessing uranium to extract plutonium, which is used to make atom bombs and as fuel for fast-breeder reactors. At the moment there is no technology for disposing of this deadly garbage. But the stockpiles of nuclear waste smoldering away in upstate New York are only part of the problem. In addition, each of the nation's 65 nuclear generating stations also produces waste in the form of spent uranium fuel...
Last week the Carter Administration took a long overdue step to deal with the nuclear waste from generating plants and proposed that the Government take over responsibility for storing the spent fuel. The companies would transfer the material to the Government on a voluntary basis and pay a storage fee. How many storage sites will be needed and where they will be located has not yet been decided. So far, the industry's inventory of spent fuel is 2,500 metric tons, and by 1985, when some 75 new nuclear generators will have come into production, the backldog will...
Though the program is expected to be selfsupporting, the White House will probably have to seek congressional authorization to spend up to $100 million for construction of a storage facility. The Government favors eventually depositing the spent fuel on a more nearly permanent basis in geologic formations like salt beds. But studies to determine the feasibility of such storage methods will not be completed until the mid-1980s...