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...they were putting superheat on the Carter Administration for more fusion funding, they were probably mistaken. John Deutch, the Department of Energy's research chief, pointedly noted that while the Princeton work was gratifying, it was not a "breakthrough." Thus the Administration remains tilted more toward conservation and coal, less toward advanced research, however exciting...
...WCAS interview was one of the few chances Tsongas had during the day to discuss issues. Fielding a question on his stand on nuclear energy, Tsongas replied that he favors using light water reactors, the type being built at Seabrook, N.H., because he believes the energy alternative--coal-- is worse. Even though the problem of how to dispose of the radioactive waste from such reactors has not been solved, Tsongas said using coal to replace the 30 per cent of total energy now supplied by nuclear power would be disastrous, raising the chance that it could bring about harmful climactic...
...Administration remained officially silent on the results, perhaps taking a lesson from its inept handling of last winter's coal strike, when Carter went on television to proclaim the strike settled only to have the miners reject the pact in a ratification vote. The postal contract still has to be ratified by the membership of four separate unions in votes that begin next week. Having leaned on the Postal Service to hang tough in the negotiations, the White House was not eager to be seen gloating over the result. Said one Carter adviser: "We want to do anything...
...postal pay deal was the last major union contract on the negotiation calendar this year and the first one to be settled within reasonable limits. Last March, in a peace-at-any-price frenzy, the Administration pressured coal operators into accepting a contract that will increase miners' total compensation by perhaps as much as 39% over the next three years. Two weeks ago, despite considerable White House jawboning, the railroads agreed to raise the wages of 340,000 of their workers by nearly as much. The Administration recognized that unless that pattern were broken with the postal workers, there...
...from burning the surplus grain, which is too old to be planted and is good only for fertilizer or landfill, can be large. LMU paid $11 a ton for its initial order of 650 tons of corn, and got an average heat output of 14 million BTUS per ton. Coal, by comparison, costs on the average $24 a ton and gives off no more than 23 million BTUs. The math works out to a 23% saving when corn is used...