If it reaches 27 feet, officials told WGNO, the plant's water intake system could shut down.

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Carl Rhode of Entergy, the plant's operator, told WGNO that the threat to the intake system is not a matter of nuclear safety.

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Since its founding in 2005 the company has created 15 subsidiary companies based on technology like magnetoresistive random access memory from New York University and a salt-intake monitoring system from Cornell University.

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Murphy says the original design plans were recently discovered, showing how the property was rigged with 200-kilowatt generators, massive air-intake tunnels and a custom ventilation system to be used in the face of disaster.

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Smith says that by subcontracting some of the work abroad--for example, the intake manifold in a car's air system--these contractors can add 20 points to that gross margin, and that's after paying Smith his fee of 5% to 7% of the foreign invoices.

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In Northamptonshire, three schools are now using random allocation within a system of fair banding to try to achieve a comprehensive intake.

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The Hailstorm II pairs an advanced liquid cooling system with a blustery current of cold air driven by three front intake fans and a large rear exhaust fan.

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