Word: plants
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...temporary exception to the University's dictum that each school must raise its own funds, the University offset the school's deficit while Bok and Allison launched a fundraising campaign. During his first eight years as dean, Allison raised about $50 million for the school. Its endowment and capital plant now has an estimated worth of more than $100 million...
...synthetic sawdust-food will cost very little, according to Professor Bergius, as the raw materials are now waste poroducts. After the cost of the initial plant installation the upkeep will be small, as the materials used in the process are fully recoverable and can be used over and over again. Even the fuel for use in the plant is obtained from a waste by-product of the sawdust. The final result is a yield of fully 100 percent...
...facility, Soviet officials used the accident report as a platform for their campaign against the American nuclear-defense program. After first ignoring and then minimizing the mishap, Moscow has tried to establish a link between Chernobyl and atomic weapons. Said the report: "The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant has again demonstrated the danger of uncontrolled nuclear power and highlighted the destructive consequences to which its military use or damage to peaceful nuclear facilities during military operations could lead." And Petrosyants told the press conference, "The explosion of the smallest nuclear warhead would be equal to three Chernobyls...
Indeed, the Soviet account of Chernobyl revealed that the power-plant explosion was a case of incompetence on an astounding scale. According to the report, the group of unnamed technicians who were responsible for the disaster committed six serious blunders. If any one of these mistakes had not been made, Soviet officials claimed, the accident would not have occurred...
...openness, but there the agreement ended. For Don Winston of the pronuclear Atomic Industrial Forum, the report, while "quite frank and quite forthcoming," means little to the U.S., where technology and safety procedures are much better. For Maize, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the fact that the Soviet plant was "run by the Marx Brothers" does not preclude similar problems in other countries. "It struck me as terrifying that this whole comedy of errors could actually have taken place," he says, adding that it is "not at all inconsistent with what we have seen at U.S. plants...