Word: fueled
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...careened off a country road in Oklahoma and crumpled against a culvert. Its sole occupant lay dead, surrounded by a litter of papers she had been carrying. Karen Silkwood, 28, a lab technician in a plant producing fuel rods for nuclear reactors, had been driving to meet a New York Times reporter. She hoped to document her charges that officials at the installation, owned by the Kerr-McGee Corp., had continually and carelessly exposed their employees to one of the world's most dangerous metals: plutonium. But after the car was towed from the ditch, the papers could...
...carrying on the night of her death would have demonstrated the company's carelessness. Lawyer Gerald Spence claimed in court that Silkwood wanted to "tell the public" that a startling 40 Ibs. of plutonium was missing from the plant. Spence also said she had X rays of fuel rods that had been retouched by the company to conceal faulty seals. Her point: a defective rod could cause a catastrophic accident. The family also intends to call former company employees, including a plant manager, to testify to these and other mishandlings of the fuel. The witnesses are expected to tell...
...increase in applicants at the Med School may add fuel to a Congressional debate next week on a Carter proposal to cut federal "capitation grants," funds awarded to U.S. medical schools in proportion to their enrollments...
Bentley College, a four-year business school in Waltham, will install solar heating for one-half of its residential campus this spring to alleviate high energy costs and to develop an awareness of alternative fuel sources among its students, a school official said yesterday...
...addition to the energy concern, the businessmen that we train should be familiar with an alternative fuel source from a business investment standpoint for the future," Ellis said...