Word: steams
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Residents of Ontario, N.Y., are used to seeing steam spouting from the stacks of the Robert E. Ginna nuclear-power plant. So they were not excited last week when the 470-MW plant, which serves 320,000 customers in communities near Lake Ontario, once again began sending white plumes into the frigid air. But their calm turned to alarm when cars from local law-enforcement agencies arrived to block the plant's gates, and word spread that county officials were dusting off plans to evacuate surrounding residential areas. After twelve years of accident-free operation, the Ginna plant...
...Mile Island, the Ginna accident proved far less serious. According to officials from Rochester Gas and Electric Corp., which owns the plant, and engineers from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a corroded pipe in the reactor's primary cooling loop that carries radioactive water into the plant's steam generator ruptured, contaminating water in the normally nonradioactive secondary loop. The leak also raised the pressure in the secondary loop, triggering a safety valve, which vented the now radioactive steam into the atmosphere. At the same time, slightly radioactive water from the secondary loop flowed into a holding tank...
...accident could not have come at a more awkward time for the nuclear-power industry, already under attack for its spotty safety record. What is worse, the Ginna mishap may be a portent of troubles ahead, since steam lines in many plants around the country are also plagued by corrosion. Indeed, by week's end, reactors in New Jersey and Vermont had been shut down because of leaks in their plumbing, and the NRC reported that plans to restart Three Mile Island's Unit No. 1, closed for refueling at the time of the 1979 accident...
...people, but he stayed only one night. "That's a hole," he says. "The one time I stayed there, they tried to set some guy on fire." Billy (he does not give his last name) spent most of last winter searching for shelter-in Penn Station, in the steam tunnels under New York City's streets, in abandoned buildings. Perhaps in this most vicious winter he would not have made it. There are an estimated 36,000 homeless men and women in New York City, and last winter at least 20 died of exposure...
...Chalmers form hooking) and again the B.U. power-play responded as leading scorer Tommy O'Regan swallowed up a big rebound off the pads of Lau and punched it into a wide-open left hand corner at 13:41. From then on, frustrated Harvard just ran out of steam...