Word: reactors
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WASHINGTON--Gov. Michael Dukakis' chief aide on atomic power issues was dragged out of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting yesterday after he tried to speak out while commission officials discuseed the possible reopening of a controversial Massachusetts reactor...
...exercises by NATO fighters, mostly F-16s, whose pilots must practice the ground-hugging tactics they would use in battle. In the past seven years, 20 F-16s have crashed in West Germany, several in populated areas and one a bare ten seconds' flying time from a nuclear power reactor near Landau. Three aircraft crashed on a single day in July. For the past three years demonstrators have protested the Ramstein show as a symbol of the low-flight issue; they marched outside the base the day before the disaster...
...years after Reactor No. 4 spewed fatal clouds of radiation from the Chernobyl power station, the Soviet public was jolted last week by another blast. The Communist Party daily Pravda charged that sloppy workmanship, mismanagement and lax safety standards -- the very conditions blamed for causing the accident that claimed 31 lives -- continue to plague the Chernobyl complex. Fumed the newspaper: "It is as though there hasn't been an accident...
While experts in reactor safety insisted that the country's nuclear plants could withstand such a crash without radiation leakage, Hubert Weinzierl, chairman of West Germany's leading environmentalist group, claimed otherwise. Said he: "We missed a nuclear holocaust by the skin of our teeth...
These days, high-resolution photos are coveted by everyone from government agencies to news organizations, which realized their potential when France's SPOT satellite snapped close-ups of the damaged Soviet nuclear reactor in Chernobyl. Best advice: pull the shades...