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...fact, several better designs already exist, all of them much less susceptible to disaster than the conventional light-water reactors currently in use in the U.S. But according to M.I.T. Nuclear Engineer Lawrence Lidsky, a consultant on the NRC study, only one of these is truly disaster-proof: the modular high-temperature gas reactor, a prototype of which has already successfully been tested in West Germany. If anything goes wrong, says Lidsky, the MHTGR simply cools down, without releasing any radiation. "It eliminates the accident of greatest concern," agrees Alan Crane, senior associate at the Office of Technology Assessment...
...halt the experimental reactor within minutes. The system performed flawlessly in its initial test last April. A similar Swedish unit called PIUS (Process Inherent Ultimate Safety) floods with water in the event of a mishap; the boron-treated liquid instantly stops the reactor. West Germany is experimenting with small modular units that can be cooled more quickly and efficiently than the present generation of nuclear behemoths...
...every measure, ENIAC was an imposing machine. It weighed 30 tons and occupied a space as large as a boxcar. Its 40 modular memory and processing units, each housed in a 9-ft.-high black metal cabinet and bristling with dials, wires and indicator lights, filled a room the size of a small gymnasium. Its 18,000 vacuum tubes radiated so much heat that industrial cooling fans were needed to keep its circuitry from melting down...
...Economics Department also changed its graduate program last year, implementing in the fall of 1983 a "modular" approach to the first year econometrics and economic theory classes. Spence, who served as chairman of the Ec Department last year, was reportedly instrumental in the transition to the new program. Other reforms include a mandatory first-year statistics class and an optional two-week pre-registration math seminar...
...tribute to the prosperity that has been generated under French-educated President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 78, who has ruled the country since it became independent from France in 1960. With its sleek office towers dominated by the elliptical 30-story post office building, the modular Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie and the new Abidjan Hilton, the city's profile is reminiscent of Florida's Epcot Center. Traffic across the Pont Général De Gaulle bustles every bit as much as along the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington...