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...site, even though two of Savannah River's five reactors are shut down permanently, and the others are not allowed to run at full power in part because of deficiencies in their emergency cooling systems. Still, the plant is the sole supplier of plutonium and tritium, the flint and steel of nuclear warheads. While the nation probably has all the plutonium it needs, tritium, which enhances plutonium's yield, has a half-life of twelve years and must be continuously produced to maintain the nation's nuclear stockpile...
When we leave, the tiny Red Thai Cuisine kitchen is ready to close. The waitress picks out random tables to clean as the gleaming steel machines of the kitchen are slowly shut...
...driving to work when Dame Nature begins to shuffle across your innards in her steel-toed brogans. You stop at the nearest full- service gas station, ten miles down the road, grab the key, open the door and . . . Ay-yi, maybe you can wait after...
...Metro system does, however, have elevators, which at least smell like rest rooms. Urine has rusted out the steel floors in many of them, says a man with the unfortunate job of maintaining the elevators, and management is now installing cameras to catch people in the act. "It's not just homeless people. Everybody's doing...
Brothers gave me my first glimpse into the Robert Taylor Homes, and what life there can do to people. This book shows how utterly degrading publicly sanctioned slum living is. The steel mesh fencing that encloses the balconies of each building to prevent people from falling symbolizes the hopelessness that pervades the project. There's a great view of the city skyline, but through the bars of a cage it seems very far away...