Nuclear power needed to overcome energy mess
By KEND ACE BORRY
LANCASTER - “We’ve
got to go ahead with
nuclear,” stressed Charles
Robbins, former president of
the Atomic Industrial Forum
who spoke at the Pa. Poultry
Conference last Thursday.
And although he called the
Three Mile Island incident
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year”, he reminded his
audience that in the “22
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“We must not forget that
every form of energy exacts
a price, whether in hazards
to health or money,” Rob
bins continued.
Coal, the resource that can
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pensive m terms of lives lost
or injuries caused, and in
causing lung and breathing
problems. Plants burning
coal sometimes emit more
radiation than would be
permitted of plants
fissioning atoms-because
some coal has fairly high
concentrates of uranium, he
added.
“Thirty thousand died in
Pa. mines between 1870 and
1950” Robbins stated.
Oil and natural gas are not
without their hazards, in
production, transporting and
in burning, he noted. And
although hydro energy is
often thought of as producing
no damage, dams break,
sometimes at a loss of life.
And dams often result in
good bottom land ideal for
farming being taken out of
production.
Solar energy requires
space for sun absorbing
equipment, and “space is
getting increasingly ex
pensive”.
“Every other potential
energy source that I have
heard of lias some negative
effects on the environment,”
Robbins said. “Nuclear
power is a domestic energy
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reduce the U.S.’s depen
dence on foreigh energy
sources. Coal and nuclear
are the only major existing
domestic energy sources
which can provide large
amounts of additional
energy through the end of
this century.”
“Nuclear, unlike coal,
does not produce carbon
dioxide,” he added. “In
creasing the carbon dioxide
levels in the earth’s at
mosphere might bring about
curtailments in the use of
carbon fuels by the turn of
the century.”
Talking about the entire
energy picture, Robbins
stressed how “confused and
dismal it is. Not only is the
shortage real-very real-but
the circumstances
surrounding that shortage
are very disturbing. I have
never known us to be in so
many crises, some of which
safcm incapable of being
rolved.”
Looking at the U.S.,
Robbins said that confusion
is “widespread”.
“President Carter and
Congress are at
Loggerheads, on every
significant issue. Congress
can’t even write or pass any
legislation for the
President’s signature or
veto.”
“Carter’s rating has sunk
to 29 per cent of public ap
proval. That might be lower
than for any previous
president, unless for Pres.
Lincoln at the darkest period
of the Civil War. Carter not
only doesn’t have the ap
proval of the American
people, but that seems to be
the attitude of sc many
people in other countries.”
“For six years Congress,
the White House, and the
public have been learning
something about energy. But
learning is slow, the polls
show that 77 per cent do not
believe that an energy
shortage exists, that it has
been arranged by the oil
companies.
The international political
and energy situation is no
better, he added, telling of
the uneasy Egypt-Israel
peace agreement, the U.S.
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