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...heat would melt through the vessel, and the concrete and steel building that surrounds it, right into the ground--and in the terms of the jargon, "right through to China." That wouldn't happen, of course. The reactor core would soon hit ground water, and send jets of radioactive steam shooting into the air, contaminating all the area around the plant. In fact, government studies have estimated that a serious "meltdown" or "China Syndrome" accident could easily kill 45,000 people and render an area the size of Pennsylvania forever uninhabitable. The same agency estimated that the chance of such...
...make matters worse, what the mayor sees as a conspiracy to extend the Red Line and drown out mass community opposition is gathering steam. Legislation introduced in the Massachusetts House--H.R. 1921--could effectively nullify the city's voice in the extension process. "If that passes, it will be disastrous," Danehy says...
...complex is the sales office and call board, department store, barbershop, lounge and restaurant. The food is steam-table cuisine, but it is cheap and plentiful. A hungry man can heap his tray with chicken-fried steak, creamed potatoes, green beans, corn bread, salad and homemade pie for less than $4.50. One trucker is celebrated for ordering seven scoops of mashed potatoes at 350 a scoop...
Robert S. Mullen, director of purchasing and insurance, said yesterday the cost of No. 6 low-sulfur residual heavy oil--which Harvard uses in its Medical School power plant and Cambridge Steam also uses--has climbed over 30 per cent since last June, from an average posted price of about $13.60 a barrel last July to $17.82 today...
Goodwin said that under a "fuel clause" in Harvard's contract with Cambridge Steam, the utility company can pass rises in fuel costs on to the consumer. He said that fuel makes up about 70 per cent of Harvard's steam bill, and thus the rise in heavy oil prices "significantly" affects the cost of steam as well...