Word: transients
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...have bequeathed the solar system to our children, not our great-grandchildren, and they will be duly thankful. At the very least, this gift will enable them to look back on such transient crises as energy and material shortages with amused incredulity...
Blackburn charged the city was taking unfair advantage of the transient state of the doctors and interns by stalling contract negotiations...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said in its daily status report that in the first 15 hours of the March 28 accident, referred to as a "transient" period, large portions of the core were exposed when coolant water boiled into steam...
...during these periods of deficient cooling that extensive damage to the fuel elements occurred.... The highest fuel temperature during the transient is estimated... to be well below the 5100 degrees Fahrenheit fuel melting point," the report said...
...panic at the plant, situated on a stretch of muddy soil called Three Mile Island in an otherwise scenic bend in the river. The men in the control room had heard those sirens before. They went about their task of meeting what looked at first like just another "transient," a minor glitch somewhere in the complex system like so many they had dealt with in the past. Unit 2's huge turbine, which generates 880 megawatts of electricity, had "tripped," shut down automatically, as it should when the steam that turns it has somehow been cut off. The technicians assumed...