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Show Nuclear Power Industry Looking Durinq 1970, Forum Indicates Utilities and manufacturers manufactur-ers project half again as many nuclear power-plant orders this year as compared compar-ed with 1969; several utilities utilit-ies are holding off on booking book-ing new capacity until en-viornmental en-viornmental questions are resolved; re-solved; nuclear's competition competi-tion from coal is waning as a result of pollution factors and coal supply and pricing problems, but that from oil and natural gas is intensifying. intensify-ing. Noting that four power reactors, re-actors, with a total capacity of nearly 4,000 Mwe, have already been ordered in January, "Nuclear Industry" lists the following as prime sales prospects in 1970: Tennessee Ten-nessee Valley Authority (which may commit up to four units), Los Angeles Department De-partment of Water & Power Commonwealth Edison of Illinois and Eugene (Ore ) Water & Electric Board. Some reactor manufacturers include in that list also Boston' Bos-ton' Edison, Pacific Gas and Electric, either Consumers Power Co. or Detroit Edisno Omaha Public Power District, Dis-trict, Potomac Electric Power Pow-er and Baltimore Gas & Electric. Several more utilities util-ities have outstanding options op-tions on nuclear plants, including in-cluding Jersey Central Power Pow-er & Light Co. or its parent, par-ent, General Public Utilities; Utilit-ies; Pennsylvania Power & Light, Georgia Power Co. or its parent, The Southern Co., and Middle South Utilities. Specific envronmental con- troversies and concaj pendng state and gislation may deter I4"' of these prospective mers, according to j, I ' gazine, among them I ' ' Baltimore G&E, pacif and Potomac Electric p " Others, the survey K1 are looking hard at fuel costs and, 1 ji', Edison, may decide fe i looks a bit more'attrM now. The world-wide ol j and natural gas' eai handling are giving i fuels an increasing e i er coal, and the Font,'. gazine reports the i: pricing situation: w: phur on delivered t0 Coast utilities on 545 1 contracts, 25c per nt 'j Btu, compared to ft , " million Btu for high .! coal and 40c for low stfj coal. One source S that low-sulphur oil iron" ' aska's North Slope wjj - delivered at 15-17c pet . i:; lion Btu. ' " The light-water K1 manufacturers predict" moderate upturn ra , with varying degrees i " timislm. Nuclear " quotes Babcox and ll as pegging sales at 11 Mwe; Combustion Engt ing, 7,500-10,000 Mwe " "better if TVA orders h units;" General Electric' " much as 14,000 Mwe '1 '' Westinghouse, about I 1 Mwe, based on its fe ; plete 1970 sales projec: ' At the same time, tte : boiler manufacturers, K ?. and Combustion, predict : t sil-f ired plant sales of l: "n Mwe and nearly 25,000 S!; I respectively. Three of the four re;: ; vendors have already ch t ed up 1970 sales: Cue ; tion Engineering, two L r Mwe pressurized water : -actors to Southern a nia Edison; General E: trie ,and 840 Mwe to; water reactor to Ckfc Gas & Electric; and f: inghouse, an 875 Mwe P to Virginia Electric 4 C: |