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TIME [Aug. 23] is guilty of a powerful boner when it reports that the St. Lawrence power project, when completed in 1959, "will generate more power than TVA." The 12.6 billion kilowatt-hours per year estimated for the St. Lawrence project compares with over 16.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power produced by TVA hydro plants in fiscal year 1950, TVA's peak year of hydro generation...
...development of atomic power, unlike the production of atomic weapons, has only recently begun to show signs of real progress. The few experimental nuclear power reactors now in operation (e.g., at Arco. Idaho and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) have yet to match conventional power plants in cost per kilowatt. Last week the Army and the Atomic Energy Commission announced plans for a significant practical advance in the field of atomic power: a compact, 1.700-kilowatt nuclear power plant that can be broken down and airlifted piece by piece to U.S. bases overseas...
When completed in 1959, the project will generate more power than TVA. New York and Ontario will share equally in the cost ($600 million) and in the power (12.6 billion kilowatt-hours a year). The dam will fit into the St. Lawrence Seaway system, scheduled for completion...
ELECTRIC POWER for industrial use, which hit a record 257 billion kilowatt-hours in 1953, will increase another 55% within the next ten years, predicts Westinghouse Vice President Tomlinson Fort. One of the biggest areas of potential growth: the booming air-conditioning industry...
Pentagon Washout. Another of Rickover's projects, a 60,000-kilowatt reactor for an airplane carrier, had a less happy outcome. Last spring, after two years of work had gone into it, Secretary of Defense Wilson canceled its "military requirement," and work on it slowed to a crawl...