Word: shippingport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion of Government subsidy but more by the competition between Westinghouse and front-running General Electric for plant-building orders, nuclear power costs have dropped so far that atomic plants in some areas come cheaper than the conventional variety. Nine years ago, the first 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...
Fact & Fission. Nuclear power plants are also growing bigger. Six years ago, the first commercial reactor at Shippingport, Pa., generated 60,000 kw. Last week Niagara Mohawk Power announced that it will build a 500,000-kw. plant in upstate New York for $100 million. New York City's Consolidated Edison plans a 1,000,000-kw. plant in Queens. Among others: > Pacific Gas & Electric's on Bodega Head, Calif. (325,000 kw.), due for 1966 completion at a $61 million cost...
Retreat from Slime. Sanitation commissioners, fortified by readings from 44 river-testing stations and airborne inspection teams, also won active cooperation from industry. By last week 80% of the 1,442 plants in the Ohio Valley-among them atomic energy installations scattered from Shippingport, Pa. to Paducah, Ky., and an electric-power plant at Indiana's Clifty Creek, which use more water than all New York City-had established controls on the waste they discharge into the river...