Word: thermal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states were affected. The University of Texas at Austin, which is endowed with hundreds of thousands of acres of oil-rich land, postponed registration for 38,000 students because natural-gas deliveries had been halted. Staffers at KLRN-TV, the university-operated station, reported to work in thermal underwear and huddled around a camping heater. "We submitted a plan for a nuclear power plant here, but it was rejected by the voters," said Austin City Manager Dan Davidson. "This is an unfortunate education for our citizens that we must have a new source of energy." In Indiana, Senator Birch Bayh...
...antiaircraft installations. The report stated that dozens of these targets were destroyed or heavily damaged-the Phuc Yen airfield was bombed, the Hanoi port facility on the Red River hit hard, "all buildings" in the Haiphong petroleum-product storage area were struck, and the Thai Nguyen thermal power plant was virtually wiped out, and on down the target list...
...only when maps of the military targets are laid over maps of the cities and towns of North Viet Nam. Then it is at once evident that many of those targets lay smack in the middle of the most populous metropolitan and suburban areas in the North. The Hanoi thermal power plant, for instance, was only 1,000 yds. from the very center of the city. A main petroleum storage area was only 200 yds. from the Bach Mai hospital. The town of Thai Nguyen lay right next to one of the key power plants...
...Thermal, Calif...
...other step into the future is a venture in cooperation with Westinghouse to build nuclear power stations that generate electricity on floating platforms at sea-far from radiation-wary cities, whose residents have blocked one nuclear power project after another. Although some ecologists have objected to the thermal pollution that such power stations would spread, Freeman maintains that its effect on the entire Atlantic would be negligible. Tenneco has begun building a new $200 million construction center in Jacksonville, from which the first power platform is expected to be launched...