Word: hydrogen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that day there was also a small fire or explosion of hydrogen gas, created when the reactor's high temperatures disassociated the cooling water's molecules. But the NRC team did not learn of it until two days later, the investigators disclosed, because of another snafu: harried by what one official called the "hassle factor," controllers had apparently rolled up a crucial recorder sheet at the height of the accident, thereby inadvertently concealing key information...
...admitted that it may have overestimated the seriousness of the large hydrogen bubble that formed in the reactor vessel. Despite that small explosion, investigators now believe there was never any danger of a bigger blast, which could have ruptured the reactor vessel and containment building, spreading deadly radiation. The false alarm was caused by incorrect speculation about free oxygen in the vessel...
...Continual degassing of the bubbly water in the reactor's primary cooling system. Objective: to remove any lingering, potentially explosive hydrogen and reduce water pressure within the reactor...
...NEXT ISSUE of The Progressive magazine could be a threat to world peace, according to the U.S. government, which obtained a temporary restraining order last month preventing publication of a Progressive article on the workings of a hydrogen bomb. But the only peace the article threatens is the peace of mind of America's nuclear establishment...
...attempts to control public information only obscure the real point: because we simply cannot control the knowledge of how to make a nuclear bomb, atomic or hydrogen--we must control the fissionable materials needed to do so. If we don't want to live in "a nuclear armed crowd" (as one commentator has put it), we will have to stop blithely spreading uranium and plutonium around the globe under the guise of the "peaceful atom...