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Annual report to Congress of the Atomic Energy Commission for 1966 (1967)

Auteur	Atomic Energy Commission
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Datum	januari 1967
Classificatie	3.01.0.00/45 (VS - ALGEMEEN)
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An Introduction To:
                          THE ATOMIC
                          ENERGY PROGRAM
                          IN 1966
 The year 1966 saw atomic energy become a major factor m the
planning for meeting the Nation’s future electric power needs as 55
percent of the new steam-electric generating capacity announced by
U.S. utilities was for nuclear plants.
  During the 12-month period, the utility industry announced plans
for installing 26 individual reactors as the heat sources in central
generating stations with an expected output of 21,224 net megawatts
of electric power (Mwe). Applications for construction of 16 power
reactors were filed during the year, 4 of which had been announced in
1965.
   Because of the time necessary for construction, most of these plants
will not be in operation before the 1970-72 period. As of December
31, 14 nuclear power stations, having a total capacity of 1,886 net
Mwe, were operable. (Appendix 4 lists the nuclear plants already
built, those under construction, and those planned.)
   The orders for nuclear powerplants by utilities in 1966 were greater
than had been estimated in the near-term portion of an AEC forecast,
announced in early June, of the growth of nuclear power through
1980. However, future orders may follow a cyclical pattern like
that characteristic of conventional plants. For the installed capacity
of nuclear powerplants in the United States through 1980, the 1966
forecast gave a range of 80,000 to 110,000 Mwe compared with a 1964
AEC estimate of between 60,000 and 90,000 Mwe and an earlier AEC
estimate in 1962 of 40,000 Mwe. The mid-point of the 1966 forecast
 (95,000 Mwe ) corresponds to about 25 percent. of the Nation’s total
projected output of electric energy in 1980 (see chart, page 3).
   The upsurge in nuclear power station planning had a widespread
effect on the nuclear industry as well as on the AEC’s operations
programs. It came a t a time when steps were being taken Within the
AEC to improve and quicken the licensing procedures; it Showed the                                   
need for new uranium exploration to meet the future fuel needs; it
brought about changes in AEC projections of the demand on diffusion                                  
plants to enrich uranium to meet civilian power needs; it strengthened                              
the United States’ stature in the world’s nuclear market; and it testified
to the close cooperative effort that has grown over the years between the
AEC and industry.

                         CONTENTS SUMMARY
   On the next 28 pages of this “Annual Report to Congress for 1966”
the contents are very briefly summarized on a chapter-by-chapter
basis. A supplemental report, “Fundamental Nuclear Energy Re-
search-1966,  describes many of the more noteworthy advances being
made under AEC-sponsored basic research and development.

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