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...hoped that it could build enough nuclear power plants to drive Storm King's pumps, but EPA projected that because of "licensing and other problems," which have mired the nuclear projects in a swamp of delays, the drive would have to come from fossil fuel--increasingly expensive, and in short supply...
...million a year (almost twice last year's figure), the report recommends $405 million next year. By fiscal 1979, some $2.18 billion would be spent on such priority projects as taking sulfur out of coal and turning the black mineral into more easily transported and more widely used fossil fuels...
...Permian period of vertebrate evolution, some 200 to 225 million years ago, was Romer's chief interest for over half a century. Romer had just completed a book mapping the Permian fossil areas in Texas before his death, Ernst Mayr, professor of Zoology, said yesterday...
...this nuclear stuff." Ray has no such doubts. She insists that "no industry is more closely regulated than the nuclear-power industry." AEC standards are so conservative, she maintains, that "when the least thing goes wrong, reactors are shut down immediately. That's not the case with conventional, fossil-fired plants...
...prove their expertise when they testify at our public hearings before a nuclear plant is licensed and before it goes into operation. To some people, public participation means stopping the program. The fact is that we are going to have to use atomic power as our reserves of fossil fuels dwindle, and we may as well get used to it. We can't live in a Garden of Eden and still have a technological society...