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Skeptics, including many distinguished scientists, remain unconvinced that every precaution has been taken. During a reactor's operation, the worst possible contingency is the uncontrolled melting of its nuclear core. To preclude such an occurrence, which the AEC calls "the maximum credible accident," the core is continually bathed in cooling water; the AEC even requires an emergency set of pipes and valves to continue supplying the water if one set is severed. Unfortunately, simulated tests by the AEC itself have shown that the reserve pipes, the "emergency core cooling system" (ECCS), may also fail. What would happen...
...treated. He is said to have consistently opposed any steps toward coming to terms with the U.S. and he reportedly urged military action to break the blockade of North Viet Nam. He opposed Brezhnev on domestic matters as well. But the hard-liners in foreign policy will not simply melt away, and they will continue to constitute a potential check on Brezhnev...
...Encouraging the South Vietnamese to counterattack near Hué, hoping to encircle the NVA forces threatening that capital. But this would require a swift turnabout by South Vietnamese troops in the area and before that could happen, the Communists seem likely to strike-or melt away...
...industry's test-driving procedures also seem inadequate. Ford men now suspect that several axle failures resulted from cars being driven in the Northeast over roads that had been sprinkled with salt to melt ice and snow. The salt, they think, got into a bearing that holds the rear axle together and caused it to deteriorate. Somehow that possibility was not considered in all the 19 million miles of test driving that Ford puts its new cars through each year. Automen insist that they cannot duplicate in road tests every condition that may come up in actual driving; that...
...manufacture a steel beer can with an aluminum fliptop opening takes three times as much energy as making an all-steel can. A frost-free refrigerator consumes almost twice as much electric power as a conventional model. "You use power to make ice-and then use power to melt the ice," complained Microbiologist Barry Commoner as he offered these examples last week in testimony before the House Interior Committee...