Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main seawater valves, used mostly to bring in water to cool the nuclear reactor system, had not been closing properly. So many valves were switched around during Thresher's overhaul that in one simulated dockside emergency, it took 20 minutes for the sub's crew to find the valve necessary to cut off the flow through a "broken" pipe. Yet in the actual diving conditions during which Thresher died, survival could come only with the crew closing off such a flow within seconds. »The air pressure system had been leaky. To surface in an emergency, a submarine...
...hours later, rescue ships found another oil slick. Floating in it were bits of cork, plastic, and two gloves-identical with those used to work on Thresher's nuclear reactor. At 10:30 Thursday morning-slightly over 48 hours after the submarine slipped out of Portsmouth harbor -a weary, grief-stricken Admiral Anderson told the press of the oil slick and debris and said, "So I conclude with great regret and sadness that this ship with 129 fine souls aboard is lost...
Hope Cooke. Everyone was invited to lunch, and 5,000 came. Outsiders were introduced to chang, a "barley beer that works something like an atomic reactor," reports Shepherd, and is drunk through long, hollow bamboo tubes. Sikkimese were equally awed by being introduced to martinis...
...more satisfactory system, says Physicist R. Philip Hammond of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, could be built around large nuclear reactors. In the magazine Nucleonics, Hammond explains that as reactors increase in size, the heat that they produce becomes cheaper and cheaper. Steam generated by a 10 million-kw. reactor costs only one-quarter as much as steam from a 1,000,000-kw. reactor. The necessary uranium fuel is relatively cheap, and most of the cost of running a nuclear reactor involves a variety of other items. But the cost of many of these increases only slightly as the plant...
...million-kw. reactor would produce heat cheaply enough for the sort of seawater distillery Physicist Hammond would like to use. But no such reactor has ever been built or seriously contemplated. The biggest one under construction in the U.S., at Bodega Bay north of San Francisco, will generate slightly more than 1,000,000 kw. of heat. For producing electric power, says Hammond, there is no present need for anything larger. But he is sure that the monsters he has in mind can be constructed without trouble. A 25 million-kw. distilling plant would suck in a river...