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...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 if the cooling system breaks down? M.I.T. Nuclear Physicist Hugh Kendall paints a lurid picture. The nuclear core would become a molten mass, so hot that it could melt through anything guarding it. Subsequent steam explosions could rupture the outer container, releasing a cloud of radioactivity about two miles wide and 60 miles long. Much of the population in that area would be dead within two weeks...
...into power. In answer, Aden and Marjorie Meinel of the University of Arizona have proposed a "solar farm" that would cover 5,500 sq. mi. of desert with rows of black steel bands. These would absorb the sun's heat and send it to large storage "batteries" of molten salt, which would power turbine generators. Cost of building a 3,000-kw. demonstration plant: $10 million. Despite the amount of land that such projects would take, most scientists agree that, given research funds, solar power will be economical and efficient in the not-too-distant future...
...complicate the picture further, Young and Duke logged the highest magnetic readings ever recorded on the moon's surface, possibly the residue of an ancient magnetic field. The readings thus provide new support for the disputed theory that the moon once rotated rapidly and had a molten iron core. Acting like a dynamo as the moon spun through space, this core could have created a strong lunar magnetic field...
...ultraviolet light. In addition, at a number of their stops, the astronauts took careful measurements to augment data about the moon's magnetic field, which analysis of moon rocks shows was once surprisingly strong; the strong field, in turn, suggests that the core of the moon was once molten. Aboard Casper, high above the moon's surface, Command Ship Pilot Mattingly made his own scientific contributions. Among other valuable exercises, he shot stereo pictures of the moon's surface, including the far side which is hidden from earth, and measured the solar wind, the constant streams...
Among contemporary dramatists, Edward Albee has displayed some of the most seething animosity toward women. In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Martha pours molten lava of abuse and contempt over her professor-husband George, both privately and publicly. Though he does the same to her, she has clearly emasculated him even before the action begins. Then she tries to cuckold him in their own house with his younger colleague, but in her arms the colleague, too, proves impotent. "I am the Earth Mother," she brays. "You're all flops...