Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cooling system, such a problem at Harrisburg, is not so crucial at MIT because the reactor there never gets that...
...three-fold safety system causes problems of its own, though. "Anyone who's in charge of a reactor is sweating all the time trying to keep it running because there's so much redundancy in the circuits. Every time Cambridge power hiccoughs, we have to stop and check for a problem in our equipment," Harling said...
...since the accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, more people have been calling the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) information office to find out about the nuclear research reactor at MIT in Cambridge's backyard...
Harling said the MIT reactor studies beta and gamma particles themselves, rather than using them for energy, and its reactor produces only one-600th of the wattage of a commercial plant...
...republics or along the Florida gold coast, Fabian's mobile VanHome is seldom without its lady for the evening. Adolescents, sophisticates, even transsexuals are all given equal time. Yet the warning sign on Fabian's van says more about its owner than about the alarm system: SELF-REACTOR: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. In this picaresque, passion is reserved for the playing field. Despite his experiments with sex and drugs, Fabian truly gets high on Fabian. With characteristic insouciance, the author describes his hero's liaisons: "He found himself selecting, isolating, soliciting partners as transient and avid as himself...