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...pollution levels of fuel cells, while seemingly their raison d'etre, is also their most damning flaw. A fuel cell is a highly efficient reactor, but is notoriously picky about what it consumes--only pure hydrogen and oxygen...
...Vaporized fuel is burned with a small amount of air in a Partial Oxidation (POX) reactor producing carbon monoxide and carbon...
Kevin McLaughlin is at the pointy end of Bill Clinton's spear. Late last week Lieut. McLaughlin--his call sign is "Proton" because he once was a nuclear-reactor operator--sat in the ready room of his F-18 Hornet squadron aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz, a 95,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier steaming in the Persian Gulf. If Clinton decided it was time to punish Saddam Hussein for his defiance of United Nations inspectors, Proton would climb into his $28 million Hornet--the U.S. Navy's premier fighter-attack jet--and shower Iraq with...
...Gore had less to show on other issues: Russia said it would proceed with plans to build a civilian nuclear reactor in Iran. And Yeltsin still intends to sign a bill curbing the operations of foreign-based religious groups. But TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer believes the nuclear agreement is more important: "This has been a long-term American objective," says Fischer, "and would balance any frustration at not reaching agreement on any other issues." Now if only the Senate could be that cooperative...
...think hurricanes and tornadoes are powerful, take a look at the sun's periodic storms. Kicking up twisting arcs of fiery gases, solar eruptions from that great thermonuclear reactor in the sky can stretch as far as the distance from Earth to the moon. The most intense outbursts explode a billion tons of material off the sun's searing (11,000[degrees]F) surface at speeds of millions of miles an hour. If these electrically charged particles happen to slam against Earth's atmosphere, they can imperil astronauts, push satellites out of orbit or fry their circuitry. If they...