Six years ago, basking in the prospect of atomic power tamed for peaceful uses, the Atomic Energy Commission predicted that the U.S. would have a capacity of 2,000,000 kw. of atomic-generated electricity by 1960. To fulfill its hopes, the AEC took private U.S. companies into partnership, helping with the cost of research and the fuel core while industry financed its own reactors. Last week the AEC admitted that its much-heralded partnership with private enterprise was in troubleĀand that the U.S. would be lucky to have 750,000 kw. of atomic-generated power capacity by...
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