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SPACESHIP PROPULSION will be investigated by North American Aviation Inc. under new $50,000-a-year Air Force contract. Company's Rocketdyne Division will study methods of generating ions, i.e., electrically charged atoms, to provide thrust. Power for ion generator would probably come from small nuclear reactor or solar power plant...
GERMANY'S FIRST REACTOR for commercial atomic power will start generating 15,000 kw. by 1959 from fuel sold under U.S. Atoms for Peace plan. Construction begins this fall...
Chairman Strauss acknowledged that there have been some delays in the nuclear-power program, but insisted that on the whole progress has been excellent. Strauss predicted that "five, and perhaps six" reactors, using varied methods of converting atomic energy to electricity, will be delivering power before this year's end. Most are AEC pilot models, but one is the big (100,000 kw.) AEC-Duquesne Light Co. reactor at Shippingport, Pa. In all, said Strauss, "at least 18" commercial reactors are under discussion, specific negotiation or construction in the U.S., and U.S. companies have announced plans for building seven...
Taking the stand after Strauss, Murray argued that private utilities cannot justify the investment in nuclear reactors in terms of today's electricity needs. Not only is the estimated reactor cost high, but actual construction costs have been running 50% and even 100% above original estimates. The result: many proposed reactor plans have not gone beyond the announcement stage. As a sample of how fast the rest of the world is moving, Murray pointed to EURATOM (the six-nation European Atomic Community-see FOREIGN NEWS), which recently set its 1963 reactor objective at 3,000,000 kw. (equal...
...roadblock to faster reactor progress, said Murray, is the fear of some private utilities that Government reactors (such as those proposed in the Gore-Holifield bill now pending before Congress) would lead to an "atomic TVA." As a way out, Murray suggested that Congress might direct AEC to build some full-scale reactors adjoining AEC plants, thus avoid competing with private power as they would if they were scattered throughout the U.S. At week's end it looked as though some such middle way might have to be found to get the reactor program in high gear-or Congress...