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Show 31 Nuclear Plants Ordered For Construction in 1967 A last minute order for a nuclear steam supply system and turbine generator placed by the Georgia Power Co raised the nuclear plant or- ders to 31 units for the year 1967. Order for the $150 'million 'mil-lion plant was placed with General Electric, and option was taken for a second unit. The avalanche of nuclear plant orders during 19G7 came as a complete surprise to the industry which had predicted the 20 orders for 19G6 could not be surpassed the follow-0 follow-0 ing year. The reaction to nuclear plant generation has roused the National Coal Association to protest to New York Governor Gov-ernor Nelson Rockefeller's Electric Power Committee. Atomic power plants should not be built in substantial numbers until a breeder re-actor re-actor is commercially feas- ible and safe to operate, the NCA said. The coal groups argue that construction of non-breeder reactors is against ag-ainst the public interests for several reasons. They may have to be abandoned before scheduled end of useful lives because of the . future high cost of uranium; waste cf f low-cost fissionable material may cause consumers of el ectricity to pay severe monetary mon-etary penalties; there may be brown-outs and black-outs 4hile reliability of plants are estab'ished; and lastly, they argue the public is subjected subject-ed to the "remote" possibility possibil-ity of a serious accident which if it did occur would be a catastrophe far more serious than anything previously prev-iously known to the world." These alarms have not been sounded by the general public, however, which has accepted nuclear power systems sys-tems as just another way of generating electricity. |