Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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until Sept. 1 to eliminate the sickening stench of burning bones from its chicken-rendering plant. At a Chicago convention, the American Petroleum Institute earmarked $1,800,000 for research on purer air and water next year, on top of $41 million that in dividual oil firms will spend to control pollution...
industry is responding with little com plaint and a good deal of action. Today, 94% of the 1,726 plants that discharge wastes into the Ohio River basin meet the requirements set by the Ohio River Valley Sanitation Commission (v. only 75% five years ago). At its Houston refinery, Shell Oil now purifies its used water so thoroughly that fish swim in a pond at the end of the process. Ford Motor Co. announced last month that it will spend $1,000,000 to scrub liquid wastes flowing into the Rouge River from its Dearborn steel plant. Four major steel...
...Plants are rising because costs are coming down. A combination of improved reactors and lower-cost uranium has not only made nuclear power competitive with conventional power but made it the cheapest of all available forms of electricity in many parts of Europe. German power experts calculate that a large modern nuclear plant can churn up power for 6 to 61 mills per kilowatt-hour v. 71 to 9 mills for an equivalent coal plant. Hydroelectric power is cheaper than both, but is not widely available. Switzerland and Sweden are opting for nuclear power because they are running...
...sell a $118 million reactor to Spain, has offered to pay a quarter of the cost of it, and in return will get a quarter of the power that it produces. Westinghouse invaded heavily protected French territory, got the job of building the reactor for a Franco-Belgian plant in the Ardennes by promising to subcontract much of the work to local firms. In order to profit from the German market, Westinghouse has also licensed Siemens to use its reactor patents; G.E. has closed a similar deal with Germany's A.E.G...
...months, U.S., British and Continental firms will bid for two plants to be built in Belgium and one in Italy, each of which will cost upwards of $100 million. A.E.G. and Siemens are grimly competing for a $60 million plant in southern Germany, and directly across the Rhine in Switzerland Westinghouse and G.E. are fighting over an interconnecting plant. Another fascinating market lies east of the Iron Curtain. West ern nations are now in the mood to consider bids from the satellites-provided that they agree to let inspectors check regularly that the atoms are used only for peaceful power...