Word: hydrogenating
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...riveting days, the nation-and the world-watched a gas bubble build up in a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., and threaten to cause a hydrogen gas explosion that would spew radiation into the atmosphere. When the bubble finally disappeared and the danger subsided, deep relief was mingled with grave concern about the nuclear future...
Various ways of eliminating the problem were considered by the increasingly anxious engineers. One was to try burning off the hydrogen under controlled circumstances. The second was to gradually raise the pressure inside the reactor to the point that the hydrogen would dissolve in the water at the bottom of the reactor room. The third choice was to lower the water level at the floor of the reactor room and pour fresh water in from the top, thus pushing the bubble toward the bottom and away from the fuel rods. Another possibility was to restart the reactor, generating heat...
...Court Judge Robert W. Warren of Milwaukee starkly defined the conflict: freedom of the press vs. national security. Last week Warren came down firmly on the side of the Government. He issued a preliminary injunction barring publication of a 3,350-word article in the magazine describing how a hydrogen bomb works. The injunction replaced a temporary restraining order he imposed March...
...blizzard of affidavits from atomic experts and Cabinet Secretaries Cyrus Vance (State), Harold Brown (Defense) and James Schlesinger (Energy)-that the article would irreparably damage the security interests of the U.S. While conceding the story probably did not "provide a 'do-it-yourself' guide for the hydrogen bomb," Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971.) "The article could possibly provide sufficient information to allow a medium-sized nation...
...nuclear scientist, but a few introductory courses at Atlanta's Emory University convinced him otherwise. He majored in economics, spent five years as an Air Force pilot and held down various jobs. His first contribution to the Progressive, a 3,400-word piece on tritium, a form of hydrogen used in H-bombs, appeared in February...