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Designed as a demonstration breeder for the U.S., Clinch River has been jinxed from the start. When Richard Nixon gave the go-ahead in 1971, its cost was projected at $699 million. Seven years later the price tag is $2.2 billion and ground has yet to be broken in the Tennessee valley. What's more, the architectural firm given the contract for the project wrote in a 1973 report that Clinch River was "one of the worst sites ever selected for a nuclear power plant based on its topography and rock conditions." And with the increased amounts of uranium...
...total divestiture means less income to run the University as prices continue to soar and that, therefore, the deficit must be made up if Harvard is to continue to deliver the kind of education for which students have competed so hard to obtain. Even the divestiture process itself would cost a great deal of money. Without for a moment agreeing wholeheartedly with the Corporation's decision of April 27, I have to ask whether students have thought about what total divestiture might actually mean. In brief, it might increase tuition...
...certain private schools to defend their financial policies is that some of the students' tuition fees are used to support research and laboratory work in another part of the University unrelated to the students' own field. For example, undergrads' fees may be used to help defray the extra cost of a medical student's education, or a laboratory worker's research. The question is, why should undergrads' fees be used to support this activity extraneous to their own education, when in fact the University in question could use part of its own endowment to pay for these medical...
...most reasonable source of solar electric power is the photovoltaic cell of the type used in satellites and light meters. The cost of power from these cells is currently high--about $11 per watt, because the volume of business is currently low--750 kilowatts of capacity produced per year. Yet 1977 reports of the United Nations and the Federal Energy Administration show that electric power from photovoltaic cells would be cheaper than that from nuclear plants if they received a total investment of only $1 billion. That is still less than the cost of a single large nuclear power plant...
Although the creation of the school from scratch would cost $85 million, the use of existing facilities will result in a price tag of only $30 million, some of which has already been pledged, Mayer said...