Show Industry Chief Calls for Full Nuclear Development are simply not getting the nuclear power development we will need to support the nation's energy warned Heath president of the National Association of in addressing a resources and technology conference Calling on his audience of government and industry managers to push for nuclear Lairy nukes is good nukes may be a catchy But it is time for youth to lay down those picket signs and catch up with And it is time for all who believe in the future of nuclear power to acquire enough solid knowledge that we can be persuasive in turning current trends Larry said there is no alternative to the continued development of a nuclear power industry if the country is to continue to have social and economic A National Scandal has happened in the United States with respect to nuclear power within the last few years will some day be regarded as a national it may lead to economic said While non-renewable resources like gas and coal could carry the burden of the U.S. energy needs for many the NAM president said no person will that these resources are declining in availability or that such energy forms as wave or sun-grown organics can make up the A Simple Choice have a very simple choice to said we must opt for and a return to the dark or we must proceed full steam ahead in development of our nuclear power Because of his concern for the of nuclear President Carter has set out to check commercial reprocessing to extract plutonium from spent fuel to check the development of plutonium-fed fast breeder reactors and Ih nally to check the proliferation of new facilities and processes enriched said he has been able to check thus far has been development along those lines within the U.S. The rest of the world has gone along without Both the U.S. and its principal private nuclear power developers as a fallen far behind the rest of the U.S. Falling Behind Larry said that according to current there will be nuclear power plants operating in the U.S. by the year plants less than the which experts said just five years ago would be needed to meet the nation's requirements by the year Not only has the U.S. policy deprived ourselves of massive amounts of available said it has also deprived U.S. companies of the opportunity of furnishing a reasonable share of the nuclear plants exported to other He noted that in the U.S. furnished 10 out of 18 new foreign nuclear In 1975 the figure had dropped to five out of in 1976 to one out of six and in 1977 to none out of Safety Questions As for questions of Larry pointed to a survey reported in the issue of Time magazine which in the U.S. has been injured as a result of a commercial reactor accident since the first nuclear power plant went on the line 20 years has been estimated that even with reactors operating U.S. now has the odds that anybody will die in a reactor accident are one in The risk of dying as a result of an automobile accident is times as Nor does radiation now appear to be an unreasonable Coal fired plants actually emit slightly more radiation from natural sources than nuclear a person living next door to nuclear reactor New is exposed to less radiation than someone who lives in mile-high |