News reporter Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman Richard Adams (Michael Douglas) are filming a special on nuclear power at the (fictional) Ventana Nuclear Power Plant when they witness an earthquake followed by a reactor scram. In the control room, Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon) notices that the water level is high and asks another member of the crew to open a relief valve. Ted Spindler (Wilford Brimley) warns him that regulations do not permit opening the relief valve, but he proceeds to open it anyway. The control room crew then notices that the water level is actually dangerously low, and declare an emergency over the intercom ordering all personnel to safety areas. They manage to bring the water level back up to a safe level, meanwhile, Richard secretly films the incident. Richard wants to show the film on television, but the station manager will not allow it. Richard then steals the film and shows it to a group of nuclear engineers who determine that the plant came very close to the China syndrome, where the core would have melted through its containment and down into the Earth, contaminating a large area. Meanwhile, Jack Godell discovers that the welds on the main pump are not safe, and takes over the plant by force, locks himself in the control room, and demands to be interviewed on television. A SWAT team is called in, and proceeds to break into the control room. The other members of the control room crew cut wires in other areas of the plant to intentionally cause a scram. When the scram begins, the main pump fails, and Jack Godell is shot by the SWAT team.
Upon its release, the movie was criticized by the nuclear power industry, referring to the movie as "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry". Twelve days after the movie was released, however, the Three Mile Island accident occurred in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Both the accident depicted in the movie and the real-world accident at Three Mile Island involved loss of water through a relief valve, as well as the control room crew incorrectly reading water levels.
Flag of Aruba
Aruba's national flag () was adopted on March 18, 1976. The flag has a field of light blue (called "Larkspur"), two narrow parallel horizontal yellow ("Bunting Yellow") stripes in the bottom half, and a four-pointed white-fimbriated red ("Union Flag red") star in the canton.
Flag of Curaçao
The national flag of Curaçao is a blue field with a horizontal yellow stripe slightly below the midline and two white, five-pointed stars in the canton.
Gusinje
Gusinje (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Гусиње, ), is a small town and municipality in north-eastern Montenegro. In 2011, it has a population of 4,027 people.
The name "Gusinje" (Гусиње) is derived from "guska" (goose). Its older name was "Gousino" (Гоусино). In the Ottoman period, it was known as Turkish "Gusna" (گوسن). In Albanian, it is known as "Gucia".
The town is in the Plav-Gusinje ravine of the Prokletije, at an elevation of ca. 1,000 m.
Monte Titano
Monte Titano ("Mount Titan") is a mountain of the Apennines and the highest peak in San Marino. It is high and is to the east side of the capital, San Marino. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008 under the combined title "San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano".
Jonathan Gold
Jonathan Gold (July 28, 1960 – July 21, 2018) was an American food critic. He wrote for the "Los Angeles Times" and wrote for "LA Weekly" and "Gourmet". In 2007, he became the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Gold died on July 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California from pancreatic cancer at the age of 57.
Rene Portland
Maureen Theresa Muth "Rene" Portland (March 31, 1953 – July 22, 2018) was an American former head coach in women's college basketball. She was known for her 27-year career with the Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team. Her career includes 21 NCAA tournament appearances including a Final Four appearance in 2000. She was born in Broomall, Pennsylvania.
Portland was one of a few women's basketball coaches to have won 600 or more games at a single school, with a career record of 606–236 at Penn State.
Portland died in Tannersville, Pennsylvania following a three year battle with peritoneal cancer on July 22, 2018, aged 65.
Broomall, Pennsylvania
Broomall is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marple Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,789 at the 2010 census.
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (born 25 April 1957) is a Burkinabé politician. He has been President of Burkina Faso, in office since 2015. Previously, he served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso between 1994 and 1996 and President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2002 to 2012. He also served as President of the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP). In January 2014, he left the ruling CDP and founded a new opposition party, the People's Movement for Progress.
He was elected as President of Burkina Faso in the November 2015 general election, winning a majority in the first round of voting.
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is the son of Charles Bila Kaboré and Antonine Kaboré who are both training teachers. They are Catholics from the Mossi ethnic group.
Charles Bila Kaboré was appointed technical advisor to the Minister of the Interior and Security in 1961, before becoming Treasurer General of Upper Volta and member of the Economic and Social Council. From October 1963 to December 1965, he held the post of Minister of Finance, before taking the Ministry of Public Health until the fall of the First Republic, in January 1966. Financial Advisor and Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic until 1975, Charles Bila Kaboré is appointed deputy governor of the BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States) until 1982. He is then technical adviser and secretary general of the Burkinabe presidency before taking his retirement in 1985.
Kaboré studied at the Ouagadougou Center, a public primary school and Tougan until February 1968. He returned to Ouagadougou in CM2, at the public primary school, center B, where he obtained the certificate of studies. elementary primary. He graduated from Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle College in Ouagadougou, where he obtained BEPC in 1972. He graduated in 1975.
He studied economics at the University of Dijon where, in 1979, he obtained a Master's degree in Economics and Management. In 1980, he finished a DESS in Management which gave him the Certificate of Qualification in Business Administration and Management.
From this period, he fought in the Federation of Black African Students in France (FEANF) which is very active at the time of independence and promotes the idea of ​​a unified Africa.
Kaiserstuhl
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Republic, Kansas
Republic is a city in Republic County, Kansas, United States. 116 people lived there in the 2010 census.
Thaddeus Radzilowski
Thaddeus C. Radzilowski (4 February 1938 – 20 July 2018) was a American historian, scholar, author, and professor. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was co-founder of the Piast Institute, a national institute for Polish and Polish-American affairs. His work focused on Poland and other Central and Eastern European nations, including Russia.
Radzilowski taught widely in Europe and North America and published more than 100 monographs, edited collections, journal articles, book chapters and scholarly papers.
Radzilowski died in Detroit on 20 July 2018 at the age of 80.
Maurice Yaméogo
Maurice Yaméogo (31 December 1921 – 15 September 1993) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, from 1959 until 1966.