Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this solution is flowing in a small-bore pipe, it does not react, because the fissionable uranium atoms are too strung out to form a critical mass. But when the fuel solution flows into a spherical reaction chamber, the compact mass becomes critical. A nuclear chain reaction starts, and heats the solution. Before the reaction goes too far, the solution is sucked away by pumps and forced through a heat exchanger, where it heats ordinary water to produce high-pressure steam (see diagram), which in turn can be harnessed to an electric generator. Since the fuel is liquid...
...recent conversations," stated the "Times," "the machine was told the following: 'Remember this month is August, today we had rain and severe heat. Yesterday it was sunny and hot. Tomorrow it will be cold and cloudy. That...
...much the heat I mind as the humidity...
...Well, this heat's gotta break sometime...
...exercise he had missed in America, they tramped the 15 miles home. Their fine Georgian mansion in Belgravia has a two-way frontdoor microphone, three dining rooms, and a $7,000 kitchen where Marples cooks midnight snacks for fellow Ministers ("After all, cooking's no art-merely applying heat to food...