Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dresses in well-tailored designer clothes and still lives in Buttrio, the small village (pop. 2,200) in northeastern Italy where she was raised. But beneath that traditional exterior, Danieli, 43, is a lady who confounds expectations. As the chief executive of Danieli of Buttrio, a leading builder of steel mills and manufacturer of steelmaking equipment, she is a high-heeled boss in a hard-hat world--and a remarkably good boss at that. While much of the global steel industry has been depressed for almost a decade, Danieli has achieved phenomenal growth, earned record profits and built a worldwide...
...company's specialty is the construction and equipping of so-called mini steel mills. These comparatively small plants recast scrap steel and iron pellets into finished bars, rods and other products. The minimills are in great demand because they can produce steel much more cheaply than traditional plants with huge blast furnaces, which convert raw iron ore and coal into steel. Danieli has put up mills in 27 countries, including the U.S., the Soviet Union, Burma and Venezuela. In fact, the company has helped design, build or equip about half of the more than 250 minimills in the world...
...dumping tons of water into any reactor core that shows signs of overheating. Nor are U.S. reactors as likely to release radiation into the atmosphere in the event that the fuel starts melting. Only the newest of the Soviet Union's Western-style reactors are equipped with the steel-reinforced concrete containment buildings that are designed to hold in radioactive gases and the other by-products of an accident. All licensed U.S. reactors but one are encased in such structures. The exception, the graphite-moderated plant in Platteville, Colo., features a built-in containment system...
Fueled by the white-hot graphite core of one of Chernobyl's four reactors, the runaway blaze burned at temperatures of up to 5000 degrees , or twice that of molten steel. The crippled reactor itself was unapproachable--too hot from the fire ravaging it, too dangerous radioactively. "No one knows how to stop it," said one U.S. expert. "It could take weeks to burn itself...
...Soviet reactor was not protected by thetype of steel and concrete containment buildingrequired at American commercial reactors,authorities said...