Word: meant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until 6 a.m., said Curry, did workers notice that "a small amount" of radioactive water had leaked onto the floor of the containment building. That meant the primary loop, which brings cooling water into direct contact with the radioactive reactor core and keeps its temperature at a safe 600° F., had been affected in some unexplained way. Curry insisted that an emergency was declared almost immediately and the proper state and local authorities promptly notified. State police immediately blocked off the two bridges leading to the 600-acre island, letting through only plant officials...
...rich farm land near Three Mile Island, area residents kept citing the reassurances of company officials that there was no need for concern. As Vice President Herbein had been saying: "This accident is not out of the ordinary for this kind of reactor. It was not unexpected.' President Creitz meant to be equally low key, but in retrospect his words were unwittingly chilling. Said he: "The same occurrence happened two or three times in 1974 on Unit No. 1, but the tanks didn't spill." It was about this time, 11 a.m. on Thursday, that plant officials first disclosed that...
...Saturday, the engineers began preparing yet another approach to getting rid of the bubble. They continued to vent some of the gas from the containment building in controlled steps. This meant that low-level radiation was still being released from the plant. But it also caused the bubble to shrink slightly. When it became small enough, the engineers hoped that it could be siphoned into a tank in the pump building. Since the gas in the bubble was highly radioactive, a wall of lead bricks had to be built around the tank...
...somehow maintained a precarious balance in the four officials years of its fiscal crisis. Following the intricate, day-to-day, financial derring-do that allowed the city to stay marginally solvent has presented formidable problems for even the most dedicated newspaper reader, but understanding what the crisis has really meant has been most impossible. The shouts of the city, the unions, the banks and the public have drowned out all but the most superficial explanations of what happened, and, more importantly...
...With fixed sex ratios, sometimes a man would have a relatively low lottery number, but would be turned down even though there was room left in his first-choice House," Dingman said. "That meant a woman who did not want to live in that