Word: breeders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant, on which AEC is spending only $4,500,000 of the cost, has been un der construction since 1956 and is sched uled to be completed this fall. It would be the first big U.S. plant with a fast-breeder reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atomic power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. At AEC hearings, a group of top scientists, led by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, testified that the plant could be operated without undue risk to the public. City officials of Monroe said they welcomed the plant...