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...travel season, but an eerie silence reigned last week in Concourse D at Denver's Stapleton International Airport. Nearby, the entire 42-aircraft passenger fleet of Frontier Airlines sat grounded. In the terminal building, there were occasional scenes of chaos as anxious Frontier passengers, left stranded by a sudden shutdown, scrambled to find other airlines that would accept their tickets. As the paralysis wore on, groups of Frontier's 4,700 employees huddled in airport corridors and union halls to glean the slightest rumor of their fate...
...Chernobyl calamity occurred, ironically, in the course of a safety test. According to the report, workers were trying to determine how long the reactor's turbine generators would continue to operate as a result of inertia in the event of an unforeseen reactor shutdown. To prevent the automatic safety systems from interfering with the experiment, the technicians disconnected them, opening the way for a chain of fatal mishaps. The consequence was an explosion and fire that for more than a week spewed streams of radioactive material into the atmosphere above the Soviet Union and across Eastern and Western Europe...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission is already looking toward a new generation of safer reactors. Last week, after two years of study, it published a report that includes its first guidelines for advanced reactor designs. Though fairly general, calling for "highly reliable and less complex shutdown and decay heat removal systems" and for "designs that minimize the potential for severe accidents," the implication is specific. Says Commission Chairman Lando Zech: "We should always be focusing on safety...
...concentrated effort, Lidsky argues, the MHTGR could be on-line in the U.S. by 1996. He has received some support from an unexpected source: the Union of Concerned Scientists, which is generally opposed to nuclear energy. Robert Pollard, a nuclear engineer and U.C.S. spokesman who has urged the shutdown of all U.S. nuclear plants, says that the MHTGR is a "much better idea than current reactors. It's basically a much slower-acting machine...
...antichurch actions followed closely on the heels of the June 26 shutdown of La Prensa, the only remaining opposition daily in Managua. The 60- year-old newspaper's campaign against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle once helped to put the revolutionary regime in power. Even so, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra insists that La Prensa has become a vehicle for CIA propaganda and will remain closed until the "war" is over...