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...property damage and $50 million in public-liability coverage, while third syndicate of about 100 mutual companies will write maximum $15 million in combined property-liability policy. Liability rates will vary with plant, starting with $500 per $1,000,000 for a year's coverage for a research reactor, $1,000 per $1,000,000 for power reactor...
...Promise & Doubt. Target of the Reuther forces was the Power Reactor Development Co., a combine of Detroit Edison Co., 17 other private utilities and seven manufacturing firms, which will finance and operate the $45.5 million Monroe plant under the leadership of Detroit Edison President Walker Lee Cisler. P.R.D.C. is building the first commercial "fast-breeder" reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atom power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. Late in 1955, the first experimental fast breeder ran out of control at the National Reactor Testing Station, melted its own fuel with more than...
...Opponents of P.R.D.C.'s fast breeder got one good arguing point when AEC's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards warned last June: "There is insufficient information available to give assurance that the reactor can be operated at [Monroe] without public hazard." But AEC disagreed, gave P.R.D.C. a "provisional permit" to build last August, did not publish its advisory committee's warning until October. The decision was immediately criticized by Senator Clinton P. Anderson, who is joint Congressional atomic energy chief and a public-power enthusiast. Then the U.A.W., together with the International Union of Electrical Workers...
...Fact & Fission. P.R.D.C. did much to dispel these fears last week by submitting the testimony of five top-drawer atom scientists and reactor experts. Their verdict, summarized by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell University: "By the application of theoretical physics to what we now know, a fast-breeder reactor can be constructed and operated without undue risk to the public ... its operation is safe." Furthermore, AEC stressed that its Monroe permit is only for the construction of the plant, not its operation. Unless all the bugs are worked out of the fast breeder by the time the plant...
...dissenting unions will produce scientists of their own when the hearings resume in several weeks. After that, AEC's five commissioners, most of whom favor private power, will decide whether to approve the reactor. Although their final decision will not be determined by public opinion, AEC will weigh the feelings of Monroe's 25,000 residents. Said Vice Mayor Ruby G. Clime last week: "The citizens of Monroe are not frightened one bit. The great majority of the local people are thrilled. It will put Monroe definitely...