Show The green light for nuclear power One of the spin offs from the last national election was the publics public's overwhelming overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming rejection of restrictive laws designed to hamper the development of nuclear energy for the production of electric power The green light for nuclear power was signalled in six states Arizona Ohio Oregon Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana Washington and Colorado where the people overwhelmingly voted against ballot proposals to hobble nuclear nuclear nuclear lear energy And shortly before in California California California Cal Cal- an out all campaign against nuclear energy was turned back by a vote of more than two to one For many years the development of nuclear energy in the United States has been seriously and expensively hampered A militant minority exploiting exploiting exploit exploit- ing the four horsemen of igno ignorance ance fear superstition and subversion have thrown countless roadblocks in the way of nuclear power Now however all of the arguments have been made both sides have been heard and weighed The people have made the decision go ahead with nuclear energy Although this science-age science energy comprises only a small part of our total power consumption today it has been estimated that last year alone nuclear power saved consumers nearly 2 billion on electric bills Perhaps more important import import- ant than the saving of money however was the conservation of our natural resources the fact that nuclear energy energy energy en en- ergy saved us the equivalent of billion gallons of oil or 80 million tons of coal In addition we avoided the pollution pollution pollution pol pol- pol- pol lution of air and earth which would have resulted from the burning of coal or oil The people have spoken not once or twice but over and over again Our natural goal to increase nuclear production production pro pro- production from our present 9 to 50 by bythe bythe bythe the year 2000 has been set L Lets Let's ts t's get on with reaching that goal with no further delay |