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...carried away by the appealing prospects for atomic power that it predicted a vast expansion. Those hopes were thwarted by soaring construction costs, a nationwide squeeze on capital funds, shortages of trained personnel, delays in delivery of equipment, and environmentalists' objections to the thermal pollution of waterways, which can be caused by nuclear plants. The main result of the general euphoria, to which the AEC contributed, was that mining companies held back on developing coal reserves for fear of competition from nuclear plants that turned out to be phantoms...
...most crucial problem, devising a tight but long-lasting seal at the three apexes of the rotor, was solved by substituting a carbon alloy for the cast-iron tip used in German models. The original Wankel engines belched clouds of smoke, so Toyo Kogyo built a 40-lb. "thermal-reactor" afterburner to oxidize the exhaust and attached a dozen more antipollution devices to the engine. As a result, says Jiro Morikawa. president of Mazda Motors of America, the Japanese Wankel can be easily modified to meet the U.S.'s strict 1975 standards for auto pollution, even if conventional European...
...Knapp, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc., denounced "sudden hysteria" over the environmental impact of nuclear power plants. While conceding that the nation's 17 existing "nukes" discharge heat (he said low-level radiation is under control), Knapp declared that "there is not a single case of thermal emission seriously damaging the ecology." He particularly decried conservationists' lawsuits that block the growth of nuclear plants. Those who hinder power generation, Knapp said, only guarantee "ever darkening skies and diminishing amounts of fossil fuel resources-or an even more hazardous environmental threat, insufficient electricity to meet our nation...
Space-Age Principles. Chance is an unabashed advocate of applying space-age principles to the ancient art of boat building. It is no accident that his chief engineer, Eric Hall, used to work for Grumman Corp., the people who built the Apollo lunar module. Experimenting with tensile strengths and thermal coefficients. Chance refitted the old Intrepid with exotic lightweight metals -beryllium on the top of the mast, magnesium for the winches, boron graphite for the boom-to cut the weight of these vital fittings...
...already affecting commerce and industry across wide segments of the East and Midwest. Last week the Tennessee Valley Authority disclosed that its normal 60-day stockpile of coal is down to a ten-to twelve-day supply overall, and to four days' worth at some of its thermal power plants. When the town of Braintree, Mass., sought bids recently for oil to run its generating plant for another year, none were submitted. Though there is plenty of natural gas available in the Southwest, the fuel has become so scarce on the East Coast that the Elizabethtown...