Word: euratom
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...first treaty, there will be no tariff walls between the six nations, and a common tariff rate will be set up between them and the rest of the world (TIME, Jan. 28); under the second treaty the six will enter the nuclear age together in one big cooperative (Euratom) of nuclear research and production...
...this uniting-Europe mood, the six Prime Ministers also agreed on the establishment of Euratom, a European Atomic Energy Community. A supranational council will hold title to all fissionable materials possessed by the Six. save those reserved for military use. With the aid of the U.S., which has already agreed to supply technical advice and nuclear fuel, Euratom's planners hope to be producing 3.000,000 kw-h of electricity annually by 1963. This would carry Western Europe into the age of atomic power just about as fast as the Soviet Union (whose hoped-for goal...
...estimated reactor cost high, but actual construction costs have been running 50% and even 100% above original estimates. The result: many proposed reactor plans have not gone beyond the announcement stage. As a sample of how fast the rest of the world is moving, Murray pointed to EURATOM (the six-nation European Atomic Community-see FOREIGN NEWS), which recently set its 1963 reactor objective at 3,000,000 kw. (equal to 30 of the Shippingport reactors, and twice the capacity of all U.S. civilian-power reactors now projected), with a goal of 15 million kw. by 1967. EURATOM, said Murray...
...heads of the governments of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg have acted to keep Western Europe from becoming an anachronism. Their agreement upon two treaties, creating a European Common Market and a European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), is an important step toward the unity Europe needs to maintain a significant role in world power politics. A compartmentalized Western Europe has been losing economic and political stature beside Russia and the United States...
...countries of "Little Europe" seek economic integration to solve their basic post-war problem--insufficient industrial productivity. The Euratom program, pooling atomic knowledge and materials, is a wise investment in a source of power which can eventually supply all industrial expansion. Atomic power will free Europe from the limitations of her shrinking coal reserves and from her all-too-costly dependence on Middle East...