Word: fueled
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Remember the China syndrome? Hardly anyone does, because nuclear meltdown is no longer a major fear in the U.S. But Japan Thursday faced the worst nuclear emergency in its history, after an accident at a fuel processing plant put 14 people in the hospital and forced mass evacuations. Officials said that a nuclear reaction may still be continuing inside the Tokaimura fuel processing plant, which was evacuated after workers saw blue flames rising above a batch of fuel and complained of nausea. Radiation levels 15,000 times higher than normal were reported around the plant, the site of Japan...
Black holes are formed when massive stars, having exhausted their nuclear fuel, collapse under the weight of their own gravity until they become so dense that nothing that enters their sphere of influence can escape--even light...
...group's players don't use a script for their shows, instead relying on suggestions from the audience to fuel their zany and wacky skits...
Ford said the MBTA will rely on two jet engine generators in South Boston as sources of power to keep 80 percent of its system running indefinitely should it break down. Fuel trucks and 300 buses will provide additional support...
...their nonreading children (even boys!) are tearing through the Potter books and begging for more, the confessions of a growing number of adults not so young that they find these young-adult books irresistible. And the arrival of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban will only add more fuel to the Potter conflagration and prompt anew the question that is baffling many non-Harry publishers and readers alike: What on earth is going on here...