Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long, rumbling shudder that felt like an earthquake. Up above, the Kennedy's angled landing deck was smashing through the superstructure of the Belknap like a battering ram. The impact crushed the ship's funnels, sending clouds of acrid smoke billowing through the cruiser. Jet fuel from the Kennedy sluiced over the Belknap's mangled superstructure. With a roar, fire broke out on both ships...
...somehow, the main pipes carrying water to the reactor core have broken or clogged. As white-coated technicians look on helplessly, the back-up water system also fails. Deprived of the coolant that controls its temperature, the reactor begins melting in its own heat. Then the machine and its fuel collapse into a molten mass that explosively converts the coolant water into steam. The resulting blasts rip open the power plant's massive concrete dome, releasing a cloud of radioactive gases. Tens of thousands of people living near by are contaminated by radioactivity. Many die within days. Others suffer...
Lethal Garbage A reactor's wastes, mainly the depleted uranium fuel, are so highly radioactive that they pose serious risks to humans. Much of the waste will remain dangerous for centuries, and nuclear power critics argue that it is not fair to produce lethal garbage that could endanger future generations. Government experts are remarkably untroubled by that prospect. They point out that the total amount of waste that nuclear plants will produce by the year 2000 would fit, if stacked six feet high, on a single football field. The Federal Government proposes to bury the wastes deep...
...fetches about $15 per bbl. in the U.S. Other provisions of the bill would require both automakers and appliance manufacturers to improve the energy efficiency of their products, guarantee loans totaling up to $750 million to mine operators wanting to expand coal production, underwrite state efforts to develop fuel-saving programs and provide for the creation of an oil reserve of 500 million to 1 billion bbl. of oil as a hedge against another Arab oil embargo...
...Jones industrial index slumped to 836.04, down 4.48 for the week. At week's end First National City Bank lowered its prime rate from 7¾% to 71/2%, the lowest since August 7. Citibank's cut signified that cheaper money would soon be available to fuel the recovery in autos and in other industries...