Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other areas, S. 1630 would create vaguely defined new crimes of "criminal attempt," "criminal conspiracy," and "criminal solicitation," and in particular would threaten the freedom of the press. Harsher punishments would be in store for reporters who refuse to identify certain news sources in court. Public officials who leak accounts of Government corruption or other sensitive information, as well as the journalists who publish the accounts, could be charged with "revealing private information submitted for a Government purpose...
Lucas played that night. Remarkably, word of the locker-room confession did not leak out for two months, but when it did, Lucas and his lawyer met with a Washington Post reporter, and Luke confessed anew. "It started last year when I was depressed about a lot of things," he said. "It's not affecting my play at all. There are a lot of guys who go out on the court all messed up. I'd never do that...
...ruptured in the steam generator of the Robert E. Ginna nuclear power plant. allowing radioactive water to come into contact with the cooling system. The water vaporized and escaped--still radioactive into the atmosphere. As the plant's technicians belatedly tried to lower the water pressure to reduce the leak, a valve stuck, pressure dropped too rapidly and the water in the reactor began to boil. If a backup valve hadn't opened, a "bubble" of steam would have formed within the reactor, possibly uncovering the core--exactly what happened at Three Mile Island in March of 1979. But because...
...their calm turned to alarm when cars from local law-enforcement agencies arrived to block the plant's gates, and word spread that county officials were dusting off plans to evacuate surrounding residential areas. After twelve years of accident-free operation, the Ginna plant had sprung a leak and spewed out radioactive steam...
...from Rochester Gas and Electric Corp., which owns the plant, and engineers from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a corroded pipe in the reactor's primary cooling loop that carries radioactive water into the plant's steam generator ruptured, contaminating water in the normally nonradioactive secondary loop. The leak also raised the pressure in the secondary loop, triggering a safety valve, which vented the now radioactive steam into the atmosphere. At the same time, slightly radioactive water from the secondary loop flowed into a holding tank in the plant's sealed containment building. When the tank filled...