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...fuel capable of withstanding very high temperatures -- up to 3,300 degrees F (1,800 degrees C) -- into reactor vessels so small that they cannot hold enough fuel to produce such temperatures. The fuel consists of tiny grains of enriched uranium that are coated in ceramic and embedded in billiard ball-size "pebbles" of graphite. The reactor needs no safety cooling system; helium gas flowing through the core simply carries away heat to power a turbine. Even if all the gas escaped, the core could not melt down. Lawrence Lidsky, an M.I.T. professor of nuclear engineering, calls such reactors "inherently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Build a Safer Reactor | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...Adams House Billiard Room...

Author: By Joe MARTIN Hill, | Title: How Patriarchy Came Tumbling Down | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

According to students in the area, both a cue stick and some billiard balls were used as weapons in the altercation...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Two Students Injured In Fight at Fly Club | 3/17/1990 | See Source »

This century saw ivory become a raw material for industry. In the 1920s thousands of elephants were butchered to meet U.S. demands for 60,000 ivory billiard balls a year and for hundreds of thousands of piano keys. In the 1970s ivory was a hedge against inflation, stockpiled and traded like bullion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...could hear the noisy arguments from the billiard room and bar next door as I knocked on the door of the ground-floor apartment where she lived. Maritza's Mama let me in. "Your Big Sister's here, Maritza...

Author: By Gloria M. Custodio, | Title: Pushing Against Apathy | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

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