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...factory, built in 1982, is part of the fuel supply line for an experimental fast-breeder nuclear power plant. It is where fissionable U-235 is combined with nitric acid to produce uranium dioxide, which is then combined at another plant with plutonium to produce the enriched uranium pellets used as breeder fuel. According to JCO, workers inexplicably mixed far more than the normal amount of uranium--35.2 lbs. instead of 5.2 lbs.--with the acid. Then they used stainless-steel buckets rather than pipes--again, inexplicably--to pour the liquefied uranium into the tank. The high concentration of uranium...
Cheng, who is studying a specific enzyme, endothelial nitric oxide synthase, says the enzyme is being studied nationwide...
LICK YOUR WOUNDS! Here's why: saliva contains nitrite, which on skin seems to convert to nitric oxide--a potent antimicrobial agent...
...breath of life for "blue babies." Some NEWBORNS have trouble breathing because blood vessels in their lungs don't expand properly. But now doctors find that inhaling nitric oxide can help. In half the infants studied, tiny quantities of the gas restored breathing within minutes--with no harmful side effects...
...altitudes of about 10,000 ft. and higher, mountain climbers run the risk of developing a serious condition in which their lungs fill with water. Now scientists in Switzerland report that inhaling an extremely diluted dose of nitric oxide gas--about the amount present in Los Angeles smog--can help treat the problem...