Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mingled with the clouds and fell to earth as radioactive rain. Even before rain fell, the normal air radioactivity of 50 counts per minute rose to 400 counts at Tokyo. Rain at Matsue on the Sea of Japan registered as high as 89,000 counts. Japan's weather bureau announced, to soothe the jittery public, that more radioactive rain was to be expected, but that it would probably not be harmful to humans...
Said Mitchell; "We were in constant squalls in the Gulf Stream. About 11 on the third night the glass dropped, and the weather took on all the characteristics of a tropical lull. We were still 165° on the compass when I looked up and saw a squall going all the way across the sky. It looked like a mushroom atom cloud, low with a black stem. The scene was eerie, with the moon not shining but giving just enough light to see. The sea was pretty big, and I said, 'This looks like the worst squall...
...radio active level of large areas of ocean. But these effects are slight, and will do no appreciable harm unless the tempo of bomb testing is increased many times over. There is nothing, say the scientists, to the popular idea that bomb testing has upset the world's weather...
...atomic power plants will be producing enough krypton 85 to raise appreciably the radioactivity of the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Other gases given off at fuel-processing plants, e.g., iodine 131, can do even worse on a local scale. The committee points out that unfavorable weather conditions around a processing plant can concentrate the gases intensely...
Halfway around the world in Mexico, another of humanity's sorrows was turning to promise. Huddled into a corner of Nayarit state, the squalid hamlet of Tecuala had for years had contact with the outside world only through a dirt mule track. But in 1951 an all-weather road pushed into Tecuala, and the town got a small, 600-kw. generator. Within weeks, the power plant put new life into Tecuala. A modern street-lighting system was installed, a water-pumping system modernized; Tecuala's hospital got refrigerators, fluorescent lighting, a fluoroscope. In short order, the town added...