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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...
...Indians across the West are asking for--and getting--hiring quotas at mining and drilling sites, special training programs, and education funds from the corporations they sell their resources to. In coal-rich Wyoming, tribes are renegotiating leases to get a larger share of the selling price for coal...
...surface of things, then, seems rosy. The tribes own, altogether, 52 million acres of land with 5 percent of the nation's oil and gas reserves, 470 billion tons of high-quality coal and half of the nation's uranium supply, valued at $400 billion. The southwestern Navahos, with 160,000 members, are making $55 million a year from mining and pumping petroleum...
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...