Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Atomic Energy Commission usually hates to tell about accidents to nuclear reactors. Reason: the public gets so jumpy. But about the latest such accident it not only lifted secrecy but has made a color motion picture snowing the tricky and dangerous work of repairing a reactor at Oak Ridge...
This was no work for amateurs or bunglers. To gain access to the heavily shielded core vessel, high-density concrete slabs first had to be lifted by remotely controlled cranes, exposing the underground room that houses the reactor and its maze of pipes and pumps. The cell was then flooded...
Every step of the repair job was a novel and ticklish problem. Parts of the core that stood in the way were cut up and extricated on the points of slender spikes, all by remote control because of their radioactivity. The deadly inside of the reactor was invisible to direct...
Among the satellites so far shot into orbit, perhaps the most useful to man was Tiros I, the "weather eye," whose pictures of the earth's cloud pattern gave a valuable overall view of global weather. Last week the U.S. launched Tiros II, to improve on the work of...
The wide-angle camera was designed to cover an area about 750 miles on a side, the exact figure depending on the altitude of the satellite and the slant at which it is viewing the earth. The narrow-angle camera covers an area 75 miles on a side. Its job...