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...Thermal pollution can be equally useful. Not only trout but oysters and other shellfish have been grown more rapidly in the hot effluent from power plants. Indeed, one New York producer, who raises his oysters in the Long Island Lighting Co.'s cooling ponds, says that they reach full size in less than three years (v. four to five years normally). Even more spectacular results have been reported by the Scots. By placing sole and plaice in water discharged from an atomic generator, they have raised the fish in six to eight months (v. three to four years...
...report described air, water and thermal pollution, discussed population growth, and recommended that the Government establish a national land-use policy geared to population expansion. Among other recommendations: industries should be taxed to pay for pollution controls, but the main cost of depolluting the nation should be borne by the consumer...
...nuclear plants turned out to be less efficient and trouble-free than those run by fossil fuels (coal, oil). For another, utilities did not foresee the steep rise in the cost of money-and "nukes" (nuclear plants) are especially expensive to build. In addition, cooling towers required to control thermal pollution will boost the average plant's cost from $150 per kilowatt of capacity to $175. All these pressures caused utilities to cut down on their orders for nukes, from 31 in 1967 to seven...
...Fearing thermal and radioactive pollution from a huge nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minn., conservationists have filed a lawsuit against state agencies and Northern States Power Co. to bar the plant's operations. Result: the Minneapolis-St. Paul area has to borrow power from neighboring utilities. In Kalamazoo, Mich., another nuke is stalled pending consideration of the ecological effects of the plant's discharge of hot water into Lake Michigan. Until pollution-free fuels or new generating techniques can create energy without contaminating the environment, such conflicts are likely to spread across the nation...
...recent Federal Water Quality Administration edict against thermal pollution, if strictly enforced, could reduce power production by plants using fossil fuel (oil, coal) and force utility companies to start costly redesign of water-cooling systems...