Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SNAP III was developed under a modest $15,000 AEC contract with the Martin Co. of Baltimore working in conjunction with the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. But the polonium, which is made by radiating bismuth in an atomic pile, costs about $10 per curie. SNAP's charge is the equivalent of 3,000 curies, bringing the price of fuel in the capsule to $30,000. An AEC official explained that some cheaper isotope might later be substituted for polonium. If cerium 144 can be used, the unit cost might be as low as $600 per battery...
...take the lead, offer fat subsidies to get large-scale commercial atomic power going now. Last week a special committee of businessmen and engineers appointed by new AEC Chairman John A. McCone to advise him suggested a solution. The Government would pay a major part of the costs of constructing prototype plants up to 80,000 kw. Whenever the AEC thought experience justified building a 200,000-to-5000,000-kw. plant of a particular type, it would tell industry so. Thereafter, industry normally would be expected to do the job alone. If no company came forward...
...compromise did not go all the way in accepting the argument of Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and others that many of the cost problems in building commercial atomic reactors are directly due to inherent bigness. Anderson contends that the Government must pay a big part of the cost in the transition from pilot models to full-scale plants because private industry cannot afford the huge costs in researching and developing the different techniques and materials involved. Against this view, the report argues that the Government gets more for its money...
...carnage trade there were still costlier craft, including Matthews' 42-ft., double-cabin cruiser at $53,000, and Wheeler's 43-ft., flying-bridge sedan at $55,000. But, more than ever, boat builders emphasized economy to lure more middle-income families, made wider use of low-cost, low-upkeep plastics and fiber glass. The percentage of fiberglass craft in the show has doubled since 1957; this year 150 of the 430 vessels were of fiber glass...
Like the automakers, the motorboat makers are shifting away from yesteryear's jukebox styling. The 1959 models have toned-down colors, trimmed-down fins, less chrome. There are also fewer extra-cost gadgets. Said President Sherwood Egbert of the Outboard Motor Manufacturers' Association: "Instead of bringing out a huge array of new accessories, we have settled down to making our product more reliable, cheaper to operate...