Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed version. House-Senate conferences tend to be chaotic trading games where deals are cut in back corridors long after the nightly news has signed off. As the battle over tax reform reaches its final hour, the House-Senate conference looms as the dark at the end of the tunnel...
Ivan Yemilianov, a senior designer of the stricken unit, said Soviet engineers planned to entomb the reactor in concrete for hundreds of years to allow the radioactive substances to decay. The scheme will require workers to pump an insulating layer of liquid-nitrogen refrigerant into a tunnel just beneath the reactor. The crippled unit will then be encased within a concrete barrier that will descend 96 ft. into the ground. Engineers were also spreading a plastic film over some 300,000 sq. yds. of soil a day to prevent further contamination and hold tainted earth in place...
...high tech also gets mixed in. Many drivers now have onboard computers to record fuel pressure and other parameters. A few teams have even started to use wind-tunnel testing. "First thing you know," says Garlits, "a computer'll be telling us what...
...test scheduled for this Tuesday is code-named Mighty Oak. If all goes as planned, a U.S. nuclear device will explode in a tunnel beneath the dry lake beds of Nevada, some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. On the scale of modern tests, it rates as a penny-ante blast, releasing a mere 20 kilotons of explosive power, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Such a test usually does nothing more than rattle the china in a few Nevada closets. But this time the shock waves could reverberate around the world...
...practical reasons why the city and the MBTA wouldn't agree to the proposal," Spiegelman said. "Otherwise the tunnel would be covered up and not used...