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Profits into Losses. At night. Havana's once bright lights are dimmed for economic reasons; each kilowatt-hour of electricity, the Communists tell the people, costs 345 grams of oil, which comes from Russia and is paid for with scarce sugar...
...Chicago, Commonwealth Edison's Chairman Willis Gale, head of the private group building the 180,000-kilowatt Dresden reactor 50 miles southwest of Chicago, told the Atomic Industrial Forum the plant would furnish power at a cost of about three-fourths of a cent per kilowatt-hour when completed in 1960. Said Gale: "This is about the same as the cost of power produced by our newest coal-fired plants." Utilityman Gale acknowledged that in computing the Dresden figures he disregarded the initial $15 million expended on researching the plant, explained, however, that the second, third and fourth reactors...
...design is that the sodium can become very hot without vaporizing. This eliminates high-pressure vessels and piping. Another advantage is that the fuel need be only slightly enriched in costly U-235. The designers of the reactor believe that it can produce electricity at 7 mills per kilowatt-hour, which is much cheaper than the current cost (16.8 mills) of steam power in the Anchorage area...
...growing industrial nation that depends for energy almost entirely on coal. But Britain's coal resources are failing and the country has almost no oil. To the Fuel Ministry, nuclear power thus seems a heaven-sent answer. It will cost at first about 7 mills per kilowatt-hour. Even if this cost does not fall in the future, as is likely because of technical improvements, it will still be competitive with power from British coal...
...made of thorium, which neutrons turn into fissionable U-233-Dr. Zinn did not give the cost of natural uranium, but he estimated that if it cost $35 a Ib. (probably a generous figure), the fuel cost of the power produced from it would be only .0013? a kilowatt-hour. The fuel cost of electricity from coal is about .35? a kilowatt-hour-nearly 300 times as much...