Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three Mile Island, the way in which federal and plant officials seemed to handle the breakdown will not help the industry's image. The trouble was dismissed at first by Jack Herbein, Metropolitan Edison's vice president for power generation, in a memorable engineer's euphemism, as merely "a normal aberration." Reassuring statements spewed from the plant's press spokesmen, sounding as if they were taken right out of the script for the film The China Syndrome, a thriller that depicts nuclear plant officials as placing greed for profits far above their concern for public safety. But if the movie...
...investigators from the nearby headquarters of the NRC in King of Prussia reported later in the day that radio activity had been detected as far as 16 miles from the plant, and claimed that radiation within the reactor containment building had risen to a startling 1,000 times its normal level. At one point operators in the nearby control room had to put on protective gas masks...
...weeks and over the multimillion dollar cost of decontaminating the two buildings. He did not rule out the possibility that consumers might have to shoulder the expense. Both company officials and investigators from NRC again assured the public that the reactor was cooling and should be down to its normal shut-off temperature within...
...race course was shortened from the normal 1500 meters to approximately 1400 meters, beginning below the Northeastern boathouse and finishing at Peabody Terrace with two bridges in the middle, because a strong quartering headwind (in between a direct crosswind and a direct headwind) worked havoc in the basin, making in unrowable...
...normal 1500 meter course in the basin between the MIT and B.U. boathouse fell victim to the windy weather and turbulent waters. The two teams agreed to move the race upstream to the "powerhouse stretch," shortening the course by about 100 meters...