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SAFETY. Only a handful of hysterics believe that a conventional nuclear plant could explode in a mushroom cloud and wipe out a city. But many fear less dramatic accidents, including "melt down," which could occur if a reactor lost the water used to control the temperature of its core, ruptured and released radioactive gas and other material. Many also worry about radioactive contamination and fear that those living near nuclear plants may be subject to constant and eventually deadly exposure to radiation...
...pulleys and rotate augers. The object of all this clever instrumentation is not only the cutting of wheat, which the combine does admirably by snipping it off a few inches from the ground, but the threshing of wheat. As the great machines inch their way across the field, a cloud of chaff blows back behind them. Only the cleanly hulled grain remains...
There was no gusher. Instead, pressure gauges simply showed that something-oil or gas-was trying to come up. Hours later, a mixture of mud, water and natural gas vented from the wellhead in a cloud that when ignited whooshed into a 30-ft. flare visible 20 miles away. A second test at 13,000 ft. yielded indications...
...parliamentary investigating committee has issued a damning report on Italy's worst ecological disaster. On July 10, 1976, an explosion at the Swiss-owned Icmesa chemical plant discharged a thick white cloud of dioxin, one of the deadliest known poisons, over some 4,000 acres of the small industrial suburb 13 miles north of Milan. As the poison settled on homes and gardens in the following days, thousands of pets died, crops were infected and hundreds of people developed nausea, blurred vision and, especially among children, the disfiguring sores of a skin disease known as chloracne...
...factual The Cloud Forest (1961) and the fictional At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), Matthiessen and his characters successfully, and at times beautifully, conveyed the dilemma of the Western mind: a need to worship wilderness and a desire to tame it in the name of progress and profit...