Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solar power or other sources feasible, nuclear energy will remain necessary both to provide enough power and to control fuel costs. France has shown the way to safe and extensive use of nuclear energy. By the mid-1980s the country will be getting 55% of its electricity from the atom, as compared to 19% with...
Similarly, in World War II, our leaders wastefully committed massive ground forces in Europe and planned an invasion of southern Japan with a contemplated death toll of over a million American lives after Japan had already been reduced to such military impotence that even without the atom bomb, air attack, naval bombardment and blockade during the fall and winter of 1945-6 would inevitably have brought about her surrender at minimal cost in American blood...
...flagship of a program that by the mid-1980s will make France the second largest producer of nuclear power, behind only the U.S. and ahead of West Germany, Japan and the U.S.S.R. France's progress runs counter to the trend in other Western nations, where opponents of atom power and rising costs have impeded its development just as the need for alternatives to oil has become most acute. Only the Soviet Union is developing nuclear energy as assiduously as France...
...Over the next five years it is scheduled to switch on new facilities at a rate of one every two months. By mid-decade, when 52 plants will be running, the country will be getting 55% of its electricity and a fifth of its total energy from the atom; in the U.S., atomic plants now account for 11.5% of electricity production and less than 4% of total energy needs...
...reactor there-the pro-nuke momentum will be hard to break. A Harris poll conducted after the Three Mile Island accident indicated that 57% of Frenchmen supported their government's nuclear program. Still, Giscard is taking no chances that people might forget the advantages of the atom. Last month he announced a 15% electricity discount to anyone living near a nuclear plant...