Word: coal
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...industry's death are premature. This year the U.S. will get 13% of its electricity from the atom; by the mid-1990s, according to some estimates, that figure will have risen to about 20%, and nuclear power will be the nation's most important source of electricity after coal...
...third blow fell when Cincinnati Gas & Electric and two partner companies announced that they were halting further nuclear construction on their long-troubled William H. Zimmer plant at Moscow, Ohio. They plan to convert the 810-MW facility, 97% finished at a cost of $1.7 billion, into a coal-burning installation. A fourth shock to the gasping industry came when a Pennsylvania public utilities commission led overextended Philadelphia Electric to halt construction for 18 months on one of its two Limerick reactors, where $3 billion has already been spent...
...have about 30% more generating capacity than they need, far more than the 20% to 25% generally considered sufficient to meet unusual weather-caused emergencies or to assist neighboring utility companies. In response to the lower energy demand, some utility companies slowed or halted construction of new plants, whether coal or nuclear...
...multibillion-dollar projects than to abandon them. That assumption sometimes proved erroneous. Constructing nuclear plants has proved very expensive. In the early 1970s, says Charles Komanoff of the New York City-based consulting firm Komanoff Energy Associates, there was little difference in the construction costs of nuclear and coal-burning plants...
Moreover, for many tribes Reagan'a cheerful plans for business development are simply unworkable, given reservations' desolation and isolation. The Navahos of Arizona live on top of $2.5 billion worth of coal, but can't get to it without a $100 million railroad. And this is not to mention the potential envrionmental problems posed by such an endeavor...