Word: processes
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...break up (fission). Scattered in all directions are electrically neutral particles called neutrons as well as fission products such as shortlived radioactive xenon, krypton and iodine. The neutrons hit still other atoms like errant billiard balls in a chain reaction that produces heat. But obtaining useful energy from this process can be extremely complex. Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant has two pressurized water reactors. Such reactors are based on a design pioneered for nuclear submarines by the redoubtable Admiral Hyman Rickover...
...retain neutrons given off by the uranium atoms-in effect, stopping the billiards and regulating the intensity of the reaction. To start the reactor, the control rods are raised to precisely calculated levels. The chain reaction begins, converting mass into energy and producing great quantities of heat in the process. That raises the temperature of the water surrounding the core to nearly 600° F. Under high pressure this water is carried off by the cooling system's primary loop, a complex system of pipes, to a heat exchanger called a steam generator. The heat is transferred from...
...chuckle about Government efficiency. Although he is a veteran of many dramatic ceremonies, Rusk was caught up in the simple program on the North Lawn. Some of his old juices began to flow. He hoped that the Administration was moving strongly behind the scenes to help along the peace process. "This is the most significant event for that part of the world in 30 years," he said later. "It's a heck of a job ahead. Peace can only be made out there. Jimmy Carter moved on this with guts...
...contagion of peace." If in these first shaky months, the new treaty takes hold and appears to be working for both nations, they may relax and be even more giving to ward each other. Better yet, the other Arab nations may, how ever reluctantly, decide to join the process. There is no question that Jimmy Carter's hand will be required from time to time; though not, he hopes, in the manner of Camp David or for shuttle diplomacy. But in extremis, even those possibilities would not be ruled...
When the treaty-signing ceremony was over Monday after noon, the people lingered to talk and to remember, clinging to the special feeling of the day as long as possible. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had helped to start the peace process with his arduous diplomacy after the 1973 war, found himself thinking that the nations had to move ahead. "It is a new world now," he said after the signing. "Whatever the problems, they are in a different context. It is an occasion for great hope...