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...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 more abroad. As if to support his stand, three more groups of private-power companies announced plans for U.S. reactors last week...
...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 to 30 of the Shippingport reactors, and twice the capacity of all U.S. civilian-power reactors now projected), with a goal of 15 million kw. by 1967. EURATOM, said Murray, may get its reactors from the British, whose Calder Hall reactor is already in operation...
...market. It figures that U.S. nuclear electricity capacity by 1975 could require up to 15,000 tons of concentrate annually. The 180,000-kw. reactor to be built by Chicago's Commonwealth Edison group will require 75 tons of uranium metal just to start, and the Shippingport, Pa. reactor, scheduled to start operating next year, will need 12 tons...
...have experimental plants that produce small amounts of nuclear electricity, but Britain is the first to achieve atomic power on a serious scale. When in full operation, Calder Hall's two units will generate 92,000 kw. The most advanced nuclear power plant in the U.S.. at Shippingport, Pa., has only the rough, nonnuclear parts of its equipment in place. Paid for chiefly with government money, it is not scheduled for completion until next summer. Many private atomic power plants have been projected with loud publicity, but few, if any, have passed the ceremonial ground-breaking stage...
...there are many bright spots. Westinghouse is moving fast in the growing field of industrial atomics. It turned out the atomic-propulsion unit for the submarine Nautilus and is building reactors for an aircraft carrier and for fleet-type submarines. Westinghouse is also constructing the reactor and parts for Shippingport, the first U.S. central atomic-power station...