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...stopped the chain reaction. But the loss of water in the primary loop allowed the reactor to get too hot. When more water was pumped into the system, the pressure rose ?and other relief valves opened. These valves vented some of the radioactive steam out of the top of the dome. When the core temperature continued to rise, employees deliberately vented more steam in brief bursts. Some of the spilled radioactive water from the primary loop was automatically drawn from the containment dome's floor into the neighboring pump-house building, which does not normally handle radioactive material...
...possible full-scale flight from the region? The first explanation came from NRC officials. They said the reactor had unexpectedly developed an 880-cu.-ft. gas bubble, which was compressed between the water covering the reactor's core and the top of its steel housing. Acting like a lid on a pressure cooker, the bubble was maintaining high temperatures and pressures. NRC officials warned that there was a very remote but frightening possibility that the bubble would grow big enough to block the flow of water. In that case, the temperature in the core could rise high enough (3,000?...
...gradually raise the pressure inside the reactor to the point that the hydrogen would dissolve in the water at the bottom of the reactor room. The third choice was to lower the water level at the floor of the reactor room and pour fresh water in from the top, thus pushing the bubble toward the bottom and away from the fuel rods. Another possibility was to restart the reactor, generating heat and steam that might break up the bubble. But this option was ruled out because of fears that the control rods might be too bent to be lowered again...
...White House labored exhaustively behind the scenes for a moderate settlement, and made a compromise in the middle of last week. Reversing an earlier ruling, a top-level strategy group said that 21? of a 58?-an-hour cost of living increase due to the union on April 1 under the expiring contract should not be counted in the cost of a new settlement. That was expected to clinch the deal. But after the talks broke down, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons made it clear that the Administration's efforts to impose its guidelines had been a key factor...
...restrained joy of treaty morning had ripened into the Baptist version of fun by that night. Old angers were left outside the big top. Warmth flowed along with the California wine. Clark Clifford, waiting for the President to greet the crowd, was a man who had always been suspicious of the show of religion in statecraft. Still, touched by the spiritual nature of the day's events, he found himself wishing that Carter would say grace, something that has never been done in memory at a state dinner. Almost as if there had been thought transference. Carter then announced...