Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many splotches and is spreading. John Robinson, the Government oceanographer who heads the U.S. team studying the spill, says that it now reaches over an area 300 miles long and 25 miles wide. Some U.S. marine biologists fear that the spill, pushed by currents, could soon begin to hurt plant and fish life off the Texas coast, though no trace of the slick has yet been found in that area...
...some federal environmental and safety regulations. His hope is to ease the financial strain enough to skinny through to 1981, when President Lee lacocca is expected to bring out a series of front-wheel-drive compacts to compete with General Motors' successful X cars. By then, a new plant will also be producing small engines for Chrysler's popular but scarce subcompact Omnis and Horizons...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission 's reckoning, some of the responsibility for the near miss at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant lay with control-room personnel: they were not able to cope with a crisis. Just how should reactor operators learn their jobs? To find out, TIME Correspondent Peter Staler visited a nuclear training school near Chicago, where emergencies are programmed into the curriculum. His report...
Since 8 a.m., Paul Higginbotham, 32, a fiercely mustached Kentuckian, and Michael Helton, 28, a stocky Ohioan, have been slowly, methodically bringing the 850-megawatt nuclear reactor back on line after a routine shutdown for maintenance. Now, with the plant operating at 21% of capacity, they begin to relax...
...automatic safety systems come quickly to the rescue. Control rods that had been pulled out earlier to bring the plant back on line are now reinserted. That "scrams," or shuts down, the reactor. Higginbotham and Helton move swiftly too, throwing switches, isolating complex plumbing and carefully monitoring critical meters as the emergency cooling system pours hundreds of gallons of cold water into the core. "Pressure's holding pretty good," says Higginbotham. Sighs Helton: "I think we're all right...