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Show I' (i Tin 8 ilt Lake Tribune. Thursday , Nov ember jM, a" 979 r' Russians Build First Factory for Nuclear Reactor Production By rill( .il;i Tribune lll.liHiMiNSK The world I'SSII Inst plant covers an area of 1,500 at res, and when iimiplete, its assembly line will be 5 5 miles long Total cost should amount to $1 5 billion, according to Vladislav Ku,menko, v ice chief engineer The complex will ( on sist of seven big buildings and two dozen smaller .Inn Gallagher s serial iiucloat fa tory for the Ijrodtietlon of hull! Ill l ea fol s is being smilhern Russia The plant, which will prodmo eight pressur ied water reactors annu all', underscores the soviet i ommitineut to mn lear energy over the lung haul The (opacity id each reactoi will hi it Ml megawatts But the factory is fai behind schedule, pointing In the problems the ones 1, whole actual assembly will occur, is virtually completed, and one real tin is being built It (the i I No Building fulls reacton finished in will be 19K2," lilted States Plan to cording the plants were scheduled to total capacity megawatts by originally achieve a Ac added, and feet long bo about and HO feet 1H across the center Original plans culled for three such reactors to be produced in 19h'1 and the first complete con signrnent of eight two years lati r But that objective has gone by the hoards The most Kuzmenko would sav was that everything necessary for the production of eight reactors generating capacity will come from atomic power plants Nuclear specialists in the West, where reactors in T)Hr for nuclear power plants," Kuzmenko said, "including the pressure vessels and the four steam generators they require Over the next 20 years, the Soviets say, most of the increase in electrical is are individually de- signed, question the wisdom of investing so mm h money in an assembly line plant that could quickly become obsolete if a technological leap takes place But Kuzmenko insisted he is not disturbed about this "Weve designed this plant to switch over to reactors other than the pressurized water variety if we have to, he said Atom reactors, like al most all Soviet units, will not he equipped with secondary containment domes, which are com mon ill the United States These domes are an extra added protection against radiation leakage The Soviets sav their reactors are so well constructed that radiation leakage under ordinary circumstances is impossible "There is no fear of a lear mishap," Kuzmenko said "The Soviet people are sure that, since such things as reactors are being built, they will be absolu'ely safe However, there is eon eern among some Soviet scientists as to the safety and ecological impact of the governments atomic power push Two of them warned recently that "good measure should be emphasized with rcsHrt to this just as with anything else. nuc CP-V0- C to sex. -- SK-A.e- A. 'BO- e - faQi a. U A WITH FOODS gUlEREPWCOD tact to SO 14 1 574-0- 31 WApetFs.i tfS jpfSTfcit&Tio ere. Ssfed A Ketu Hiwttg Rmmt Feft Oeuft fete current five-yea- r Soviets plan, nuclear powei of scheduled to lie complete "Well do our best to make eight in 1985, he addl'd But other Soviet sources say the target date is now I'M) Western experts say that the 1990 date is "reasonable "We will be producing all necessary equipment Kuzmenko aid It will w'eigh about S00 tons, he Not 21,01)0 the end of mo That objective already has been scaled hack to less than 18, IKK), and western experts predict that the figure will fall to Pcs. But 5 Pieces Just S 2 or 3 Piece Living Room Set 15,000 to 10,000 if no new setbacks occur. Despite the disappointing progress to date, the Soviets are certain to try harder This country is confronted with an energy crunch m the coming decade and is counting on nuclear reactors to cushion the blow Although tile Soviet Union is the worlds No producer of petroleum, that output is expected to taper off in the early 1980s, and could even decline considerably if the development of new reserves in northwest Siberia sc is not fill 5 Massive 88 Sofa Companion Lovesest ComfortsSa Chair 1 s Includes: Sofa Love Seat Rocker Chair Ottoman Coffee Table And 2 End Tables WO ol95 Matching Ottoman Man-Siz- Pieces Reciter $39S95 water iso sale on hedule. Big Increase A big increase in burning coal also is consi- Just Your Choice of King or Queen Size Complete with Liners, Deck dered essential Soviet coal reserves are said to lx the most extensive in the world, but many are extremely difficult to mine. Coal production in the last two years lias rcmuhnd at 1977 levels. 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Western experts find AT these figures "unrealistically optimistic. but it is clear that this country is determined to develop its atomic ipdustTyas'T-apid-land abn, as ivcan time when political and deep doubts about their safety are ixistponing new nuclear I fog rams in the Unite Spates Could Catch Up "Fursl oiler or worse, they could catch up with the United States in the a foreseeable future, science specialist nt one -- e in bass y warned The Soviets switched on the worlds first atomic power plant m l'M.5 at the Institute of Physics m Oborninsk, HO miles from Moscow. That was three years before first oommereial leaiturin the States went l $46995 Samsonite to wcuk in SHppmgiKut. Pa Since then, Soviet nuc- development has lagging Many of the nuclear reactoi s in use are uranium and graphite devices of a sort the west already has discarded The modern reactors to lie mass manufactured in VolgoJon.sk are intended to remedy this problem. 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