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Kendall's views clash with those of Michael Driscoll, another MIT physics professor, who said yesterday that nuclear power presents less risks than more common sources of power, like coal...
Nuclear power wins "hands down" over coal power, Driscoll said, adding that the tremendous amount of previous research into the effects of nuclear radiation means the technological problems of nuclear power "can be licked...
Wyoming already ranks as the nation's leading producer of uranium and soda ash and is the source of more than 12 million bbl. of oil per year. But even greater promise is offered by more than 545 billion tons of coal. At present rates of use, Wyoming could supply the nation's total coal demand for a quarter-century. Much of the coal is low-polluting, low-sulfur sub-bituminous that lies in miles-long, 45-ft.-thick seams only a few feet below the surface...
...fuel, which can be extracted by relatively inexpensive strip mining, has started an immense coal rush. Many companies, including ARCO, Texaco, Kerr-McGee, Gulf, Exxon and Phillips Petroleum, are paying up to $1,000 an acre for grazing land that sold for only $60 an acre a year ago. Annual coal production-now 13.6 million tons-is expected to double...
Good News. Social problems are the most intense in Rock Springs, a huge trove of coal, oil, shale, potash, sand, gravel, clay and cement rock. Since 1971, about 5,000 workers have moved in to build the giant Jim Bridger Power Plant- and work in a newly discovered oilfield. Another wave of outsiders, lured by the expansion of trona mines, a source of widely used sodium compounds, and the reopening of old coal mines, is expected to increase the town's 26,000 population...