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...When mankind got electricity and steam," says Steiger, "factories sprang up, and residential sections were thrown around them without planning. That's what we must avoid in the atomic age. The architect should be Number...
...enough to power a town of about 15,000 population), with parts that could be boxed and flown anywhere in the world for reassembly. It is a "pressurized water'' reactor plant, i.e., ordinary water under high pressure is used both to control the reactor and to produce steam to turn the turbine that generates the electricity, and similar to the 60,000-kw. plant that Westinghouse is building for Duquesne Light Co. at Shippingport, Pa. The price: $4,000,000, if Westinghouse gets as many as ten orders...
...atomic energy plants and keep pace with the mid-South population and industrial growth. Instead of ignoring TVA's needs (as had been done in the 1953 budget), Dodge decided that he could either 1) request $100 million in the 1955 budget for a new TVA steam plant, which Congress had already rejected twice, or 2) find ways to lighten TVA's load...
...Energy, Inc. President J. W. McAfee, whose Joppa, 111. plant was built to supply AEC's installation at Paducah, Ky.. and could have provided the additional 500-600,000 kw. needed by AEC. On the assumption that Electric Energy. Inc. would do the job, Dodge omitted the steam plant from his budget...
...President McAfee decided against the plant expansion at Joppa. Instead, McAfee brought in Middle South Utilities. Inc. President Edgar H. Dixon (who was also Electric Energy, Inc.'s vice president). Dixon. with The Southern Co.'s Eugene A. Yates, eventually contracted with AEC to build a steam plant at West Memphis. Its 600,000 kw. were to be fed into TVA to replace the power drained off by the AEC, and thus would only indirectly have supplied the AEC plant at Paducah. Nonetheless, as crinkly-eyed Joe Dodge cracked: "When it comes...