Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orders has doubled, to $6.3 billion; today the firm accounts for one out of three sales of new wide-bodied planes. Indeed, since last year, it has sold almost as many wide-bodies as Boeing and more than McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. These two companies have run out of steam because neither has launched a new model for the short-to medium-haul market. Says the consortium's French president, Bernard Lathière: "Three years ago, there were three major companies in the [jumbo] market-Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. Today there are two-Boeing and Airbus...
...owners of Three Mile Island--worked with NRC technicians and nuclear engineers trying to stabilize the haywire reactor, local residents were left uninformed. Hazardous Xenon 131 gas seeped into the atmosphere, and high-level bursts of radiation escaped to the containment building as plant officials released steam from the overheating equipment. Such steam releases were made, initially, without notifying local civil defense officials, who later expressed outrage at the situation's handling. These releases may have left their cancerous mark on thousands...
...great quantities of heat in the process. That raises the temperature of the water surrounding the core to nearly 600° F. Under high pressure this water is carried off by the cooling system's primary loop, a complex system of pipes, to a heat exchanger called a steam generator. The heat is transferred from the radioactive water of the primary loop to the uncontaminated water of the separate secondary loop, where the water is quickly heated to steam that drives a turboelectric generator, which in turn produces electricity...
...emergency core cooling system. That system should quickly dump thousands of gallons of water on the hot core, preventing what has become known as a "meltdown," in which the fuel melts through the floor of the containment building into the ground and possibly erupts in a geyser of steam and debris upon hitting the ground water, releasing a radioactive cloud into the air. As the final precaution, the reactor and primary loop are shielded by a thick concrete containment dome, which should prevent the venting of any radioactivity into the atmosphere-as long as a meltdown does not occur...
...that Geyelin's star may have faded when his chief patron, Post Chairman Katharine Graham, 61, stepped down as publisher last January in favor of Son Donald, 33-and that, apparently, is closest to the truth. Donald Graham simply felt that Geyelin was beginning to run out of steam...