Show atomic research plans set nl by U P L utah power and light co has announced Us its participation al along ang with seven other utilities of the rocky mountain and northwest pacific states in a two year research effort to competitively produce electricity from nuclear fission E M aughton daughton UP L president said the rocky mountain pacific nuclear research group in turn has associated socia ted itself with general atomic division oi of general dynamics corps corp s already multimillion multi million dollar research effort mr naughton said prime goal of the study program is development of reactors capable of producing high tern tem pera tures and pressure ed in modern power plant operation the program will also include de intensification of work in ahe he challenging field of direct conversion of heat into electricity members of the group in addition to upil are arizona public service co california electric power co pacific power ae light co portland general electric co public service company of colorado public service company of new mexico and washington water power co they will supply to furt further herthe the research research effort the rocky hocky mountain pacific nuclear research group is the successor to toe the rock rocky y mountain nuclear power study group in which utah power has been active since 1954 in addition to nuclear research since 1954 upil participated in the mid 1953 experiment that gave arco idaho nuclear produced electricity for more than one hour the first time in history the sole source of light and power for an american town came from an atomic station |