Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite serious obstacles it is increasingly probable-if by no means certain-that Britain will be admitted to the Common Market. When that happens, the Market will encompass close to 224 million people-more than the U.S. (185 million) or the U.S.S.R. (218 million). It will produce more coal and steel than either of the present-day great powers, be the world's second biggest automaker (after the U.S.), absorb almost half of all world exports. If Britain's partners in the rival European Free Trade Association (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal) become associated with the community...
...lifelong, dedicated European. Blue-eyed, silver-haired Ted Heath, 46, was born on the Kentish coast within sight of France-or "the mainland," as he calls it today. In his maiden speech before the House of Commons in 1950, Heath urged the government (in vain) to join the European Coal & Steel Community, the germinal economic pact that was planned as a first step toward the federation of Europe. Last month E.C.S.C. members finally agreed to study Britain's application for full membership. The "Minister for Europe," as Heath is sometimes called, is closer to Prime Minister Macmillan than...
...power industry was too quick to freeze on a single type of gas-cooled reactor, and point out that even after Bradwell hits full stride, the U.S. will still produce more atomic electricity (1,001,000 kw. v. 935,000 kw.) than Britain. But the U.S., with its abundant coal, oil and water power, regards its nuclear power program as mainly experimental, and does not expect it to account for much more than 1% of the nation's electricity needs even...
Britain has a more pressing problem. By the mid-1970s, British electricity consumption is expected to double. To supply the extra 50 million tons of coal that this would require each year is probably beyond the capacity of the nationalized British coal mines, and the 1956 Suez crisis indelibly etched on Britain's consciousness the risks and expense of relying on imported oil. To reduce to a minimum their dependence on imported fuel, the British hope by the 1970s to make atomic reactors second only to coal as a power source in Britain...
...British have not been much more successful than U.S. utilities in bringing the cost of atomic electricity down to competitive levels; the power produced at Bradwell and Berkeley still costs substantially more than electricity generated with coal. But some time between 1970 and 1973, when the construction costs of the nuclear plants are finally paid off, the longer life of atomic fuel should even things up. This ten-year wait for a payoff does not worry the British...