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...systems. They realized that a problem had been sneaking up on the industry: half a dozen serious accidents at different plants had caused some water to drain from the pools. In the worst of them, at Northeast's Haddam Neck plant in 1984, a seal failure caused 200,000 gal. to drain in just 20 min. from a water channel next to the fuel pool. If the gate between the channel and the pool had been open, the pool could have drained, exposing the rods and causing a meltdown. Says Lochbaum: "It was a near miss...
During the spring outage, a valve was accidentally left open, spilling 12,000 gal. of reactor-coolant water--a blunder that further shook Galatis' faith. He began to see problems almost everywhere he looked and proposed the creation of a global-issues task force to find out whether Millstone was safe enough to go back online. His bosses agreed. But when the head of the task force left for a golf vacation a few weeks before the plant was scheduled to start up, Galatis says, he knew it wasn't a serious effort. So he made a call to Ernest...
...down the road on Route Four they had had that big Trojan horse out on their lawn with a sign in front of it that said 'The U.N. is a Trojan horse in America. Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.' The gal who's most responsible for it's being there has since passed away, but I think they've kind of left it up there in her memory...
There is no Ginger Rogers linked immortally to Kelly's name, and that's no accident. For he was a solipsist who did not share the screen easily with anyone. Suspiciously good at playing hammy, self-serving show folks--see his hoofing heel in For Me and My Gal, his grandiloquent strolling player in The Pirate, and remember that the guy with the umbrella was a movie star not entirely displeased with the figure he was cutting--he occasionally made you wonder: Is he exercising egocentricity or satirizing...
...Purdon from Kirkland; John D. Heller and Eugenia Lao from Leverett; Swaine L. Chen, Steven A. Engel, and Michael J. Puri from Lowell; Jill A. Corcoran, Anne O. Decker, and Michael I. Schwartz from Mather; Emerson H. Liu, Sanjay Shetty, and Canh P. Vu from Pforzheimer; Barak Ben Gal, Manjul Bhargava, Kiran S. Kedlaya, Lenhard Lee Ng, Thinh Huy Nguyen, Adib R. Pasha, Adam Kempton Webb, Timothy P. Yu, and Noah T. Zinkin from Quincy; Steven W. Hetts, Brian D. Koh, David B. Lat, and Elizabeth J. Riemer from Winthrop...