Word: programing
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When it begins operating in late 1983, the plant will become the flagship of a program that by the mid-1980s will make France the second largest producer of nuclear power, behind only the U.S. and ahead of West Germany, Japan and the U.S.S.R. France's progress runs counter to the trend in other Western nations, where opponents of atom power and rising costs have impeded its development just as the need for alternatives to oil has become most acute. Only the Soviet Union is developing nuclear energy as assiduously as France...
...France largely been spared the opposition from environmentalists and others that has blocked nuclear programs elsewhere? President Valery Giscard d'Estaing credits "the common sense, the intelligence of Frenchmen who have understood perfectly well that we have no important energy resources of our own and that to work, to have jobs, to heat ourselves and to be productive we had to have energy." No major party, including the Communists, is antinuclear. At the same time, France is a highly centralized state that, for better or worse, lacks the legal and administrative checks that allow small pressure groups to halt...
After the oil crisis began in 1973, the French government decided on a crash nuclear program and signed a licensing agreement to build pressurized water reactors adapted from a Westinghouse design. Already the country's nuclear-generated electricity is proving to be 45% cheaper than power from oil-fired plants. By 1985 France expects to reduce its oil-import bill by 28%; at today's prices that means cutting $7 billion from the $25 billion cost...
...descended on Plogoff in western Brittany to symbolize the resistance of local farmers to plans for a reactor there-the pro-nuke momentum will be hard to break. A Harris poll conducted after the Three Mile Island accident indicated that 57% of Frenchmen supported their government's nuclear program. Still, Giscard is taking no chances that people might forget the advantages of the atom. Last month he announced a 15% electricity discount to anyone living near a nuclear plant...
...Beth, 19, leads an American bid to sweep all three medals. In the pairs' figure skating, America's Tai Babilonia, 19, and Randy Gardner, 20, open their duel with the Soviets' husband-and-wife team of Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 27, in the "short program," which lasts two minutes or less and involves set routines. The most unforgiving event of the pairs' competition, the test could give an advance indication of who will win the gold...