Word: wisconsin
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Much will depend, of course, on the outcome and the assessment of the Pennsylvania drama. The Department of Energy had planned to ask congressional approval for the building of experimental repositories for nuclear waste, which remains radioactive for thousands of years. California and Wisconsin have in effect banned construction of new power plants until some better method of disposing of the waste can be found. Three Mile Island can only strengthen the hands of some Congressmen who have been insisting that licensing of new plants be halted unless a series of deadlines for progress on waste disposal...
...risen to about $1,000 a kilowatt, from $100 in the 1960s. This compares with $700 for a coal-fired plant. The two main causes are general inflation and the long delays in getting a plant built because of legal challenges by opponents. Says Charles Cicchetti, chairman of the Wisconsin public service commission: "It's time to jump off the nuclear bandwagon." Nonetheless, the industry contends that nuclear plants now in operation deliver power at a lower cost than those fueled by almost any other means. The Edison Electric Institute, a utility-company group, estimates that atomic plants produce...
Coach Harry Parker's varsity opened an early lead on the 2000 meter course, expanded the bulge to a length and a half at 1500 meters through the race and cruised to triumph in 6:12.5, ahead of California (6:16.9), Wisconsin (6:20.6), Pennsylvania (6:23.7), Brown (6:24.4) and Navy...
...oarsmen moved into the lead with 350 meters gone and steadily pulled away until, at 1200 meters, they left California and Wisconsin fighting for the scraps of second place...
...From 1200 on, it was clear we were going to win. California and Wisconsin were really going at it for second so they caught up a little, but there was no doubt we had it," coxswain Harry You said yesterday...