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...already strict standards on pollution emissions and make burning coal more difficult than ever. The amendments already require, among other things, that new coal-fired plants install highly complex "scrubbers" to remove sulfur pollution from exhaust smoke. The scrubbers cost $80 million or more for an average-size, 800-megawatt generating plant. What really upsets coalmen is that the regulations would force utilities to use scrubbers to remove up to 85% of sulfur pollutants even from coal that has virtually no sulfur content at all, an incredible waste of money...
...successful is the Burlington project that the city's 45,000 residents have approved a $40 million bond issue to build a 50-megawatt wood-fired generator to supply most of the area's electricity needs beginning in 1983. Says Alan Turner, head of Vermont's wood-energy program: "There are lots of questions about nuclear power in people's minds. Moreover, New England is at the end of the line for coal transportation and completely at the mercy of foreign oil price fluctuations. Wood, however, is right here, and the technology is proven...
...billion trade and cooperation agreement with France Its projects include French help in developing Chinese telecommunications satellites and TV broadcasting, the modernization and extension of a steel complex, and the construction of power stations, a magnesium plant and other facilities. Most important, France landed an order for two 900-megawatt nuclear power plants at nearly $1 billion each...
...plant's construction design made the project vulnerable to controversy from the start because the power company planned to cool its twin 1,150-megawatt nuclear reactors by drawing sea water from three miles offshore through a 19-ft.-diameter tunnel, and returning the water, 39° F. hotter, to the ocean. The issue was supposed to have been settled in 1974, when the Environmental Protection Agency required that all new nuclear plants use concrete cooling towers, which dissipate the heat through evaporation and may cost more than $60 million...
Meanwhile, the administration has given the go-ahead to studying the possibility of building a 600-900 megawatt breeder, much bigger than Clinch River. The plans include the requisite "non-proliferation study" and a Department of Energy spokesman says the government is "deferring large-scale commitment until all the facts are in," but one can't help wondering what changed Carter's attitude towards breeder technology in the space of a year. As on other energy issues, the concessions by the administration have been substantial. It seems the relationship between branches has come full circle in recent years. The President...