Word: rivers
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Convinced that nuclear power can at last meet or beat the cost of other sources of electric energy, Virginia Electric and Power Co. last June ordered a giant 750,000-kw. atomic power plant to be built on Hog Island in the James River near Norfolk. Last week the utility company doubled its bet, told Westinghouse Electric to put up two 800,000-kw. atomic-fueled reactors and generators on the same site. The price tag: $200 million...
...commercial reactor at Shippingport, Pa., generated electricity for 65 mills per kwh. The Oyster Creek plant of Jersey Central Power & Light, due to open next year, is expected to run for 4 mills per kwh, as does Consolidated Edison's Indian Point plant 30 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan. That is 33% less per kw-h than it costs Con Edison to make power from coal in Manhattan. Even the TVA, though blessed with abundant sources of coal, will switch to fissionable fuel at its new Decatur, Ala., plant, largest (2,200,000 kw.) of its kind...
...frigid Labrador wilderness, the Churchill River plunges over a cliff higher by 79 feet than Niagara Falls, rushes down a series of lesser cataracts on its 200-mile course to the Atlantic Ocean. Last week, after 14 years of maneuvering, two provinces of Canada agreed to harness that mighty resource with the largest hydroelectric project ever built in North America...
Thanks to fortunate topography, the river will be diverted through a series of small lakes and dikes to a point 22 miles downstream, then dumped 1,040 ft. into a power station buried in solid rock. Above it will rise a new lake one-third the size of Lake Ontario...
...billion development will yield 4,500,000 kw. of power-more than is generated on the Niagara River and three times that of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. It will flow 700 miles, over the free world's highest voltage (735,000 volts) transmission line, across continental Newfoundland to Quebec's provincially owned utility, Hydro Quebec. Churchill power will not only double the provincial electric output but also perhaps enable the utility company to export a surplus as far south as New York City...