Word: pumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Curry, Metropolitan Edison's top public relations man, explained initially that a pump had broken down in the reactor's secondary loop, which carries nonradioactive water into the steam generator, where it absorbs heat that is transferred from the nuclear chain reaction in the core by the primary loop, turns to steam and drives the turbine that generates electricity. Lacking the steam's push, the turbine automatically shut down. This, said Curry, was regarded by the engineers as a routine mechanical failure that under the plant's safety rules did not have to be immediately reported to state or federal...
...radioactive steam escaped from the reactor building? Again, said the company spokesmen, this was intentional. The control rods had automatically dropped into the core and stopped the chain reaction. But the loss of water in the primary loop allowed the reactor to get too hot. When more water was pumped into the system, the pressure rose ?and other relief valves opened. These valves vented some of the radioactive steam out of the top of the dome. When the core temperature continued to rise, employees deliberately vented more steam in brief bursts. Some of the spilled radioactive water from...
...unleaded were common in Miami last week, as were 77.9? per gal. in Atlanta and 78.9? per gal. in Jackson, Miss. Dealers in New Jersey were asking 71.9? per gal. for unleaded, and in New York City 88.9? per gal. for unleaded was posted on at least one pump. In Chicago a gallon of Amoco premium unleaded has been going for 96.9? per gal., up 5? in a month. Says a philosophical Mobil station manager in Manhattan: "Customers get upset, but they pay anyway. They grumble, but what can they...
...wholesale price can differ drastically from company to company. In Houston, for example, Exxon sells unleaded gasoline to its service stations for 56.9? per gal. and Phillips for 65.1?, while Shell charges 61.8? for its premium unleaded. The oil companies have no control over the price at the pump. That is set by the individual franchise dealers, which is why the same brand of gas can vary widely from station to station...
...wholesale increases on to their retail customers. The station owners commonly add 10? or more to the wholesale price in order to maintain their own margins. For many stations, these margins are not enough to keep abreast of inflation. Others can only offset a relatively small profit at the pump through their lucrative automobile service operations...