—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 15, 1974
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Nuclear Energy: Suditenfy tlie Future Is. Today
a Cow year*, nuclear power are' limited in supply, ax we
haa gone from a blip on have been hearing.' Coal i*
the chart* to the source of plentiful enough, but euvi
about *ix percent of our romnent problem* limit it*
electric power capacity." Al- use. There is an adequate
though thin contribution i* supply of nuclear fuel, on
made by fewer than fifty the other hand, and utili
nuclear plant*, more and tics are finding it a reliable
more utilities are coming to source of *nfc, economic,
regard it with respect. and clean energy
Utilities need reliable Progress in nuclear power
sources of electricial energy may have seemed slow at
Despite the energy crisis, times, but actually it ha*
the demand for all forms of exceeded early expectations,
energy continues to grow in In 1959, the official esli
the United States-for indus- mate was that nuclear ca
try. pollution control, mass pacity in the United Slate*
transportation, and aulomo- would be 26,000 megawatts
biles. But of all form* of en- (a megawatt is equal to a
ergy, none will be in greater million watts) by 1980. In
demand than electricity, as feet, that level was achieved
more and more job* in the by the utilities industry by
home and in business are 1973. The Atomic Energy
turned over to it. Today, Commission’* most recent
electric power account* for forecast for 1980 is for over
25 percent of total energy. 100,000 megawatts -- mote
By 2000. it is expected to than four times the figure
account for 50 percent. To projected in 1959. Further
meet this demand, electric projection* are for 500,000
utilities are using all avail- megawatts of nuclear power
able fuels, mostly oil, coal, b V l"0. which would re
gas and nuclear. Oil and gas present a full 50 percent of
the U S. electrical generating
capacity, and 1.2 million
megawatts by the year 2000,
which would represent 60
percent of capacity Al the
moment, there are more
than 130 nucleai reactors
being built or in vaitous
siages of planning to help
reac h tlie-.r goals
1( win* just *2O years ago
thul nuclear power moved
out of the dreams of scien
tists and towards reality
for all of us That year,
the Atomic Energy Act was
passed, stripping nuclear
technology of its aura of
government secrecy and al
lowing utilities to develop
it for peaceful uses. Since
then, the nuclear profile has
sometimes been low, but
when the energy crisis first
loomed over the nation a
few years ago, the power of
the atom began to emerge
as an essential source of
electricity.
Now in 1974, 20 years
after passage of the Act, the
nuclear age has arrived in
full force. “We have crossed
the threshold," says Carl
Walske, President of the
Atomic Industrial Forum.
“By any reckoning we ate
now in the nuclear age. Nu
clear power has become
a fully competitive, wide
ly adopted, conventional
source of electricity. In only
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by the reactor will power the steam generators on each side
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REACHED 128 POUNDS PER DAY.
"Fowl's Feed Service", Peach Bottom, Pa. Phone 548-2376
A/icadv mu limi cncigv
In .1 ni.ijui smncv <)1 (‘let
lncit\ in some (j.iiln ol the
count) \ i ight now in 1 1 )7 1
In Novi England, n will ic
picscnl out 20 pcuent ol
not kilowatt bonus this
vo.n In the Chicago aiea.
Commonwealth Edison ex
pects it to account lot about
a thud ol net kilowatt houis
To produce these same
amounts ol oneigy in those
areas would icqune about
Wayne Feed Co. Salutes
PAUL ZIMMERMAN
Southern Lancaster County Dairyman
Paul purchased his feeder at
Paul selectively provides more-feed to
top producers through the Northco Serv-
O-Matic Dairy Feeder. He has been
feeding Wayne Dairy Feed since he
started in the dairy business.'One of his
top cows produced 128 pounds pe„r day
on DHIA testing. Paul feels he can get 10
to 15 pounds more grain in his top
producing cows by using the automatic
feeder and a palatable feed. He uses the
magnet on only his top producers.
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Two workers confer during
construction of a reactor.
/ii’<i and a half htllion xnl
loin of oil- 01 more limn
IT million lons of coal
Eveiy cl.iy, the prices of
oil and coal uvo rising, while
nuclear fuel pnco.s are re
maining fairly stable
What has all this meant
to someone who pays an
electric bill every month 0 It
has meant that the bill
has risen in the last year 10,
'5O or even 100 percent
in areas where electricity
comes Irom oil or coal
plants But, in those areas
where nuclear power is mak
ing a contribution, electric
bills have risen at a substan
tially slower rate.
The economic advantage
of nucleai energy are clear
cut Charles F. Jones, Presi
dent of the NUS Corpora
tion, and consultant to utili
ties, says “The facts are
that coal is two to throe
times mote expensive than
nucleai toda\ and oil is Ine
to set on limes moie expen
se I think it’s a pretty fair
guess that nuclear is going
to hold its own and prob
ahh improve its position
compared to fossil fuels.”
If the piojections men
tioned above materialize
and thei e are obviously good
icasons to assume thev will
nucleai povvci will do much
more than “hold its own "
It vvill become the majoi
source of electricity befoie
the next century
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