Word: river
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Last weekend was a momentous occasion for the Crimson at the Atlantic Coast Championships, hosted by MIT on the triangular course on the Charles River Although Harvard placed only sixth in the 14-team regatta, junior skipper Jim Bowers won the championships, competing against many former all-American sailors. Alex Fiks crewed for Bowers...
Until recently, it was the problem of tritium replenishment that concerned most nuclear experts. Last year the DOE was forced to shut down its only source of tritium, the aging Savannah River nuclear weapons plant in South Carolina, when the reactors there developed cracks and other safety problems. The risk that the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal might soon run out of gas provoked long and acrimonious debates in Congress. In the midst of that controversy word came that the DOE had been making millions of dollars a year by selling surplus tritium overseas. Some of the gas, it was revealed...
...tritium in question followed a circuitous route that began at the Savannah River weapons plant. The vast majority of the plant's tritium output ; was purified and stored for use in nuclear warheads. But some 300 grams (10.5 oz.) a year was sent to Oak Ridge, where it was packaged in uranium sponge and sold for commercial use -- primarily as a radioactive marker in biological research or as a source of light in everything from airport runways to luminous watch dials. The apparent losses were discovered when customers complained of discrepancies between the amount of tritium ostensibly exported...
City Councillor James A. Sheets won the Quincy mayor's post while the mayor of Newburyport lost to his predecessor and Salem's top executive was ousted. Mayors in Lawrence, Holyoke, Fitchburg, Fall River and Gloucester held onto their posts...
...Fire House, 176 River St. at Kelly Road...