Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China syndrome, in which the reactor core melts and burns its way into the earth, releasing potentially catastrophic radiation, had been a possibility at T.M.I...
...commission found that at least 30 tons of fuel in the upper portion of the reactor core, which had lost the protection of cooling water, had reached the dangerously high temperature of 4,000° F or more. A reactor would hit the meltdown point at about 5,200° F-a level that ''may have'' been reached by a small but still undetermined portion of the fuel...
...These kids are probably right, just like they were right about Vietnam. But it will take us ten years to realize it," Lee Virzi, an employee of a Wall St. brokerage house, said as he watched demonstrators dressed as neutron bombs and a core reactor vessel dance on the corner of Broad...
Calling for a decentralization of economic power, Ellsberg said, "No leader in the world should be given the authority to decide when and where to build a nuclear reactor...
...exploration, reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel, and $1.6 million lie in the KerrMcGee Corporation another company involved with the total nuclear fuel cycle. Harvard also has $500,000 invested in J. Ray McDermott and Company, the owner of Babcock and Wilcox--the firm that built the reactor at Three Mile Island and six other plants throughout the country...