Word: risen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given you and us conflicting information." Indeed federal investigators from the nearby headquarters of the NRC in King of Prussia reported later in the day that radio activity had been detected as far as 16 miles from the plant, and claimed that radiation within the reactor containment building had risen to a startling 1,000 times its normal level. At one point operators in the nearby control room had to put on protective gas masks...
...reason is that electric power demand is growing much more slowly than it had been in the 1960s and early 1970s. Another is that nuclear construction costs have risen to about $1,000 a kilowatt, from $100 in the 1960s. This compares with $700 for a coal-fired plant. The two main causes are general inflation and the long delays in getting a plant built because of legal challenges by opponents. Says Charles Cicchetti, chairman of the Wisconsin public service commission: "It's time to jump off the nuclear bandwagon." Nonetheless, the industry contends that nuclear plants...
...Commerce Department's preliminary figures for corporate profits in the final three months of 1978 seemed to suggest that pretax earnings had risen at an annual rate of more than 26%. Other calculations put the rise even higher. The reports of these large gains coincided with news that the Consumer Price Index in February had jumped at an annual rate of 15.4%, the worst rise in 4½ years. The result: an avalanche of criticism that business must be doing something nefarious to make so much and that the White House was failing to enforce price guidelines...
There were wildly differing figures being bandied about on just how fast profits have risen, in part because the Commerce Department study can be read in different ways. Annual pretax profits for the last quarter of 1978, when adjusted for the impact of inflation on depreciation and inventories, came to $177 billion. That was a compounded rise of 44% on an annual basis over the third quarter and 19.4% over the fourth quarter of 1977. Pretax profits, without inflation adjustments, rose 26.4% compared with a year earlier...
...Carter Administration has hoped that a doubling of coal output by 1985 would reduce the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil. But production has risen by only about 10% from last year's strike-depressed level of 654 million tons, and consumption of the fuel has remained stagnant. Coal today supplies about 18% of U.S. energy needs, an increase of less than 1% since 1973, the year of the Arab oil embargo. Meanwhile, mines have closed, expansion plans have been shelved and by industry estimates, up to 10% of the nation's more than 200,000 miners...