Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magnetic bottle is the only known practical container in which fusion can be sustained for any significant amount of time. If a plasma were to come in contact with the walls of a reactor, it would pick up impurities, lose energy and suffer a temperature drop that would immediately halt any fusion reaction...
...rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for lacerations, bruises and fractures of his right arm and two fingers. A few days later, the youth was released and sent home to Kentucky to recuperate. The doctors' orders: no riding for at least six weeks, putting a temporary halt to the jockey's unmatched five-month winning spree. The grounded Cauthen is already champing at the bit. "He's mad that he's not out racing today," says his mother, Myra Cauthen. "He just wants to get back...
...million-kilowatt nuclear reactors near Seabrook. Last week they took their protests into the streets. With the precision of a well-trained army, some 2,000 protesters, carrying backpacks and water bottles, occupied the construction site and set up a tent city in an attempt to halt permanently the oft-delayed project...
...other citizens' groups organized the Clamshell Alliance to try to permanently stop construction of twin nuclear reactors at Seabrook. Clamshell's founding statement declared that nuclear power plants threaten the human environment and that non-nuclear energy sources are adequate for New England's energy needs. To halt the use of nuclear power in New England, Clamshell advocates direct nonviolent action, such as one-to-one dialogue, demonstrations and site occupations...
...from eventual arrest on Sunday afternoon. As a handful of Harvard undergraduates sit at this moment in a Manchester, N.H. armory for their participation in the occupation, our thoughts remain with them and their fellow prisoners, and we urge the Clamshell Alliance to press on in its fight to halt the construction of nuclear power plants where they endanger human life or the environment...