Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years Japanese fishermen shipping out of Hokkaido have faced a particular risk above and beyond the normal hazards of their trade. From bases in the tiny Habomai and Shikotan islands, only two miles off Hokkaido, Soviet patrol boats steam out at unpredictable intervals, seize from 50 to 100 Japanese fishing boats a year on charges of violating the twelve-mile limit. The crews and the boats are usually sent home, but the Russians keep the captains, sentence them to a year or so at hard labor...
...consider "what will happen to the whole powerful [Communist China] force over the years ... Is there a relaxation of this force, or does it explode? . . . It's not only a problem of trying to contain China. You have the problem of how do you let some of the steam out of its boilers without an explosion...
...went wrong with SL-1? Although technicians could stay in the building for only brief periods, everything they saw suggested that the impossible had happened: the reactor had suddenly boiled up in a runaway atomic reaction. In thousandths of a second, its water coolant had been turned into superheated steam that ruptured the reactor tank. Best guess was that some of the cadmium control rods (which are inserted to stop the nuclear reaction) had somehow been lifted out of position...
...total of $1.4 billion, still have plenty left to pay for parties. One company alone, Yawata, the nation's largest steel producer, spent an estimated $150,000 on its bohnenkai last year. Besides regarding the parties as a safety valve to let their hard-working employees blow off steam, businessmen use them to entertain favored customers and government officials. At other times in the year, such entertaining would be frowned on as commercial bribery, but a bohnenkai forgets that...
Last week both men were eager to return to Kilauea Iki to try to convert the molten heat to power. By pumping water under high pressure down a pipe to the bottom of the pool and allowing it to percolate to the top as high pressure steam, they believe they might be able to tap enough power to drive a generator...