Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filled core, normally bathed in pressurized cooling water, was left dangerously uncovered for as long as 50 minutes; controllers had shut off the emergency core cooling system, probably because of ambiguous or misleading instrument readings. It was during this period that much of the damage was done to the fuel rods, causing a release of radiation...
...least as high as 30,000 rems, enough to kill anyone who enters almost instantly, and possibly as high as 50,000. The latter reading may be erroneous-possibly due to a "hot" particle on one device. By the NRC's reckoning, almost all the core's fuel elements are damaged, and even more radioactive material is exposed. New target date for entering the building: at least a year from...
Warnings of a gasoline squeeze have been voiced repeatedly since last winter by everyone from oil executives to Jimmy Carter and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, all of whom have urged the public to curb its driving and start conserving fuel. No one has paid much attention, and people seem instead to grow more convinced by the day that the shortages are part of a price-gouging hoax perpetrated...
...paper, the U.S. at long last seems to be tempering its petroleum profligacy. Annual growth in demand subsided from 5% as recently as 1977 to 2% last year. But nearly all the improvement has come from conservation by industry, while individuals blithely go along wasting fuel. Not only has demand for gasoline, which accounts for one-third of the nation's fuel bill, continued to grow fast, but U.S. dependence on foreign oil has increased by nearly 50% since the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, and this year will reach some $50 billion...
...that can be extracted from coal, and the petroleum that lies trapped in shale rock. Fifteen percent or so would be spent on aid to low-income families that would suffer from rising fuel prices. The remaining 5% would go for further development of the nation's mass-transit system...