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...require DC-10 operators to modify their planes to prevent the kind of hydraulic failure that caused a United Airlines DC-10 to crash in Sioux City, Iowa, last July, leaving 112 dead. Expected to take effect this summer, the order calls on U.S. airlines to install a hydraulic shutoff valve in the tail section of 243 DC-10s at a collective cost of $7.7 million...
...commissioner of the department of environmental conservation. Unless tankers that use the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline submit individual spill contingency plans by Nov. 13, Kelso says he will deny them access to the port of Valdez, effectively shutting down the pipeline. George Bush has warned that a shutoff of oil would not be in the "national interest." This is not Alaska's first such threat. After the Exxon Valdez ran aground in March, Governor Steve Cowper told oil companies to increase safety measures or he would shut the pipeline. Now Cowper wants something in writing...
...flue, although ventilation through an open door or window is recommended. They produce hardly any odor, although new out-of-the-box heaters generate a slight smell of oil and paint that their makers claim disappears after the first tankful of fuel is used up. All models have automatic shutoff devices to guard against fire if they are jarred or tipped over...
After Iranian oil exports were first bottled up for about two months nearly a year and a half ago, petroleum prices soared on world markets, oil-industry profits exploded, and long lines stretched out at gasoline service stations round the country. But would a second shutoff of Iranian exports prove equally disruptive? Not necessarily...
Suddenly, a shrill alarm shatters the control room's silence. Red lights flash on the instrument panel. One of the reactor's steam condensers has lost its vacuum, causing a turbine "trip," or shutoff. No longer is the reactor able to shed heat produced by its radioactive core. Ominously its temperature climbs, threatening to boil away the coolant. Unless something is done fast, there may be a meltdown, spilling lethal radioactive gases...