She was rigged as a three-masted barque with square sails on the mainmast and foremast, a gaff rigged fore and aft standing rigging, all of natural manila rope and galvanised wire.
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Because of fears that the reaction could " run away ", Hilberry stood ready with an axe to cut the scram line, a manila rope connected to control rods that could quickly shut the reactor down.
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They also fabricated the control rods, which were cadmium sheets nailed to flat wooden strips, cadmium being a potent neutron absorber, and the scram line, a Manila rope that when cut would drop a control rod into the pile and stop the reaction.
