"At 28, 000 feet, you don't have an awful lot of useful consciousness without the support of oxygen or being in a pressurized aircraft, " said O'Brien, a former CNN correspondent.
It is the AP 1000 reactor, a pressurized water reactor, sold by Westinghouse Electric Co.
The rain simulator has 4 in-line spray nozzles, which are feed by a pressurized portable pipe system.
McKinley, North America's highest peak at 20, 320 feet--in part because his pressurized cabins were a hit with overweight, elderly customers.
Inside its pressurized case is a miniature racetrack of the element erbium, which, when energized, gooses along the photons, like a waterwheel.
His grandfather, Auguste, broke high altitude records in the '30s by designing a balloon with a pressurized cockpit, and later became the inspiration for Professor Calculus in the Tintin comics.
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Finland is using a new breed of pressurized water reactor that is being built by a German-French consortium for around three billion euros.
To ensure his own survival, Baumgartner was equipped with a fully pressurized suit.
Ms. MALIK: Here's a real pressurized sprayer, and it just really helps distribute it.
In 1960, Piccard's father, Jacques, descended seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean in another pressurized module to set a deep-dive record that has been matched only twice.
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Japan's ANA, for instance, is outfitting its new 787 fleet with gender-segregated bathrooms that have windows and bidet-toilets ("Washlets") that offer warm, pressurized water jets for a fresher clean than one-ply paper.
His group has also chased down trucks and buses that ignore a government ban on musical pressurized horns, which can be almost twice the decibel level of a car horn, anti-honking activists say.
The pressurized-water design was a quick-and-dirty solution that we have been stuck with ever since.
The canisters on board the ValuJet plane were in a hold that also contained a few fully pressurized tires.
Sports is famous for moments like this, and from the misty re-tellings of iconic triumphs and collapses, there's a belief that pressurized situations like this are what sports are all about.
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At The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, a popular service is the Quick Fix, a combination of a Swiss shower (a multilevel shower with anywhere from nine to 12 showerheads of varying pressures) and Scotch spray-basically a small, pressurized hose used to blast at areas of special pain and tension.
All Archimede houses have an underfloor cavity that is always pressurized with warm air, and a series of tiny holes punched next to the outside wall encourages a slow diffusion of warmer air that prevents condensation and fungus development.
In this process, after a well is drilled, pressurized water is injected into the well to fracture the shale and open fissures that enable natural gas to flow more freely out of the well.
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Computerized records will show, for instance, how many hard landings that plane experienced, how many times the cabin was pressurized and how much damage was caused when a catering truck ran into it on the tarmac.
Thanks to the solar heater, a shower is a daily possibility, and the biogas digester -- which converts human and pig waste to a clean gas that can be pressurized -- has enabled cooking and lighting.
Shale gas is natural gas that is trapped inside shale rock and is extracted by using a technology called hydraulic fracturing, where highly pressurized water mixed with sand and chemicals is used to crack open rocks.
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As Michelle Bernstein, Delta's celebrity chef has said, palates weaken in pressurized air cabins, which means dishes need to be made a more flavorful and seasoned than they would be on the ground.
"While everyone has the right to express their cultural, traditional or religious background by wearing a specific form of dress, no one should be pressurized or coerced to do so, " he said.
Inside a metal-clad tower at the gas technology Institute in suburban Des Plaines, Ill. sits a narrow, 40-foot steel tube bristling with instrumentation ports and pressurized pipes.
The chamber is pressurized with pure oxygen, and the pressure inside the chamber will slowly rise to about two and a half times normal atmospheric pressure.
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