Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House gave high marks to Harold Denton, the NRC official who finally pulled things into shape at the reactor, and to Pennsylvania's new Republican Governor, Richard Thornburgh. "We found him to be extraordinarily competent, calm and sensible," said a Carter aide. "We never worried that he would get carried away." Said Thornburgh: "I told the President we are tough people and that we'll handle...
...boots, plastic radiation-protective overalls and hard hats, and crossed guarded bridges to put in harrowing shifts at the plant throughout the period of greatest danger. For days, the engineers had not known for sure just what was happening in the overheated reactor building where radiation levels reached as high as 30,000 rems-a concentration that would instantly fry a human, like a microwave oven cooking a steak...
While praising the courage of his coworkers, one of the plant's engineers told TIME Correspondent Peter Stoler that he was not at all sure that they were fully competent to handle their high-stakes responsibilities. "We really don't have enough in the way of scientific people," he said. "There are a lot of technicians, but very few engineers and even fewer nuclear scientists." He claimed that the lobster shifts in the control room were especially inexperienced. "They are usually kids, guys in their twenties who took a course on reactor operation and still have to look...
...fuel rods to overheat. They reached a temperature of around 2,500° F., which could have led to a meltdown. Water pouring into the reactor overflowed to form a 250,000-gal. lake on the floor of the reactor building. Some of this water, laden with highly radioactive products, was pumped into the plant's auxiliary building, a structure not designed to handle high-level radioactivity. Gases given off by this water were picked up by the plant's ventilation system and spewed into the atmosphere...
...notion. The Muslims of the U.S.S.R. constitute a demographic time bomb for Moscow; by the year 2000 there will be 100 million of them, compared with an estimated 150 million Russians. Already party leaders in the Muslim republics of Central Asia are displaying political muscle by pressing for high-priority development projects...