Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In Middletown (pop. 11,000), the streets were unusually empty. Some teenage boys played basketball outside an elementary school. Many residents were following instructions to remain inside their houses and to keep air conditioners turned off to limit the intake of any contaminated air. To prevent looting, Mayor Robert Reid...
The reactor's power center is its fuel core. Housed in a pressure-cooker-like reactor vessel, the core is filled with pellets of fissionable uranium packed in bundles of thin cylindrical zircaloy rods. Inserted into the core are still other rods, usually made of cadmium or boron, which...
At the slightest hint of trouble, the reactor's computer is programmed to drop the control rods back into the core. That curtails the core's chain reaction, but heat is still given off. If the core's temperature rises precipitously as a result of the problem...
One reason is that electric power demand is growing much more slowly than it had been in the 1960s and early 1970s. Another is that nuclear construction costs have risen to about $1,000 a kilowatt, from $100 in the 1960s. This compares with $700 for a coal-fired plant...
With the war long over, many of Garwood's fellow P.O.W.s feel that he should not be court-martialed. "I dislike what he did, there's no denying that," says Harker. "I don't feel he should get off without a reprimand. I say he should be...