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...afford to renounce new energy technology. Unless and until the scientific breakthroughs make solar power or other sources feasible, nuclear energy will remain necessary both to provide enough power and to control fuel costs. France has shown the way to safe and extensive use of nuclear energy. By the mid-1980s the country will be getting 55% of its electricity from the atom, as compared to 19% with...
Company executives hope that the cruise will now be a harbinger of more Government business. Even though the House Armed Services Committee last week voted to block funding of the Pentagon's $6 billion to $7 billion C-X transport plane program planned for the mid-1980s, engineers are at work on designs and mockups. The new plane would be used for the rapid transport of forces to hot spot areas like the Middle East. Says...
...orbit, listed 4,552 pieces of hardware-ranging in size from a Soviet space station to such bits of space junk as an astronaut's glove, stray cameras, and even nuts and bolts. In the coming years NORAD's job will become still harder. By the mid-1980s, the number of orbital objects may double, making it more difficult to tell what is up, and whether it belongs to friend...
Leaders in the industry talk much about a steel shortage leading to high returns in the mid-1980s, but that is probably wishful thinking. Still, steel demand is projected to rise from last year's 115 million tons to 134 million tons by 1988. If the industry starts to invest in more productive plant and equipment now, it will probably be able to meet most of that demand without much more than the current 15% reliance on imports. But if nothing is done by then to halt the decline of steel, the A.I.S.I. warns, domestic shipments will drop...
When it begins operating in late 1983, the plant will become the flagship of a program that by the mid-1980s will make France the second largest producer of nuclear power, behind only the U.S. and ahead of West Germany, Japan and the U.S.S.R. France's progress runs counter to the trend in other Western nations, where opponents of atom power and rising costs have impeded its development just as the need for alternatives to oil has become most acute. Only the Soviet Union is developing nuclear energy as assiduously as France...