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Show I Vol. 1 ( June No. 18 30, 1969 25c per copy Joint panel nps AEC budget '!? 4Atv!'Wsh&Wv'- ,w'V ?X: rVw yS 'AM'' .( - .:. v 5.o' '' : ', VV - : . .... v , ' 4': . (f 4 x ... .. sj - .. ' Cf , ;f.$ vjS 10 million boost will aid projects 8 WASHING TON The Joint Committee on Atomic Energy has voted to authorize an increase of $10 million for reactor development operating technology and costs in the Atomic Energy Commission's budget request for the 1970 fiscal year beginning July 1. of the The bulk million will increases $7.3 go to the civilian power reactor program. In a report accompanying the authorization bill, the Joint Committee joined the ranks of those associated with the nuclear industry expressing concern over mounting opposition to the nuclear program. 3iggest of its kind in the U.S., this truck will haul perlite to the soda ash industry. Standing by Sam Nelsen, left, and Mack Barlow tractor of W.S. Hatch Co., truck owner and operator. are H. THE COMMITTEE said it would be a mistake to attribute any particular significance' to the marked slow-dow- n in the rate of orders for nuclear plants which occured in the first part of this year. "The cyclical nature in the utility industry, long construction Biggest of its kind The largest truck of its kind came to Salt Lake Gty last week, en route to the job it was built for. Basically, it is composed of two huge wheel-mounte- d hoppers that will carry perlite from mine and processing plant at Antonio, Colorado, to soda ash operations near Green River, Wyoming. The hoppers are unloaded by air pressure which conveys the perlite to the top of a storage silo. The truck, to be owned and operated by W.S. Hatch Co., Woods Cross, Utah, was builty by Fruehauf Trailer Co. at its Sacramento plant. The hoppers tractor-pulle- d not-unanticipat- ed large-scal- can carry some 2,650 cubic feet of perlite 40,000 weighing YORK-T- wo mining executives in Utah and Nevada Copper Divisions, Kennecott Copper Corporation, have been appointed to imporatant ne posts in the company's New York office. Robert N. Pratt, 39, division industrial engineer, Salt Lake Gty, and R. Ward Grosz, 44, mines plant superintendent at Nevada Mines Division, McGill, will both become assistant to the president of the Metal Mining Division. Both will immmediately relocate to New York Gty and be assigned to separate operational reporting , responsibilities, to C.D. Michaelson, entrapped water is separated by high heat at the processing plant. During the application of heat, the perlite expands to 20 times its original volume. a sulfuric acid manufacturing facility at its lead smelter here. The new facility is scheduled begin operations in late 1970 and will complement Bunker Hill's two existing sulfuric acid to units. Gulf Resources and Chemical Corp., Bunker Hill's parent firm, technology all incline to make significant conclusions which might be drawn as to developing Geological and Mineralogical Survey complained that its name and Pratt, native of East. Ely, is a University of Utah Nev., Mr. graduate and recently completed a Sloan Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Grosz was graduated from South Dakota School of Mines in 1948 with a degree in general engineering. approved the project a week ago. Production of the new 300 ton per day plant will be utilized at the Bunker Chemical joint fertilizer facility in Kellogg. The complex serves markets in the Northwest. Hill-Stauff- er generating capacity. VOICING CONCERN over the increased public opposition" to the nuclear plant construction, the Committee indicated it felt not a little of it is wholly unreasoning." Some of the opposition could spring from the stringent requirements imposed by AEC on plant operators, and the publicity associated with each application for a construction permit, the Committee said. The Committee expressed those members of the general public with genuine questions and concern will come to realize that, in terms of their relative impact on the environment, nuclear plants in many respects are the least offensive of the various thermal generating units." The Committee increased the AEC budget request for the high temperature gas reactor base program by $3 million, the fast reactor by $1.5 million and the molten salt water reactor by $3 million. confidence that - gas-coole- d, of name, findings has divisional president. for a major share of the additions to the Nations electric USGS ired at use The Utah Bunker Hill to build mill Bunker KELLOGG Ida.-T- he Ilill Co. has announced it will spend $3.5 million to construct introduction into the commercial market of the largely still evolving nuclear -- pounds. The processed perlite, used for filtering soda ash liquerur, is volcanic in origin. Chemically Kennecott to advance 2 NEW leadtimes, the large backlog of orders for fossil and nuclear generating plants, and the problems e resulting from the trends, the Committee said. One factor which seems quite clear from developments in 1968 is that, notwithstanding the reduction in orders for nuclear plants," nuclear energy will continue to be depended upon the reputation of its employees has apparently been used in the promotion of stock. The Society do and its no endorse employees specific mineral producing or processing operations, according to Society president William P. Hewitt. Nor may they own stock in or recommend investment in such operations, he said. Mr. Hewitt issued a bulletin in which he stated Mineralogical Survey. Its purpose is to gather data on the mineral resources of the state and to make them available through publications, and correspondence consultations. Hewitt said former permanent employees are prevented from taking a Mr. financial interest in Utah lands for two years after leaving the Society in order to eliminate the possibility of their profiting from studies made by them at taxpayer expense. A comparable "This is not the purpose of restriction exists for temporary Utah Geological and consultants, he said. G. the Department of the Interior. He has served as a consultant of Wheatland, Wyo., Watt, 31, to has been named deputy assistant the Department since in January. secretary for water and power WASHINGTON-Jam- es ' |