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4A Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.Thur., Apr. 21, 1955 GE Official Predicts Early Advent of Atomic Power Atomic power will change theimore costly elsewhere and this, 1 Johnson was speaking to the! the next nine years, energy re-heard talks on how to train pow- world not at sometime in the future, but within only a lew years. The man who said this In tu . gene Wednesday was William E. ' Johnson, general manager of the , Hanford Atomic Products Opera tion, a General Electric Co., proj ect. " He gave dates for this change, .' dates still in the lifetime of many an oldster. And he said that "we're going ' to see one of the grcaiest world-wide revolutions evolutions that has ever been seen." He ex- cost has held back the rest of I several hundred power experts quirements will more than dou-ier executives, the principles of the world industrially He explained that Britain in tends to produce its atomic power for about seven mills per kilo watt. This, he said, is competi tive with some ol the higher rates the United States. (In the Northwest, with 1 1 l ur f Johnson I attending the annual meeting of I the Northwest Public Power Assn. It began Wednesday morn ing and will end Friday. This is the timetable he gave for atomic power in the United States: . ' ) Two per cent of the annual additions to generation facilities will be atomic by 1965. Sixty-five per cent of these additions will be atomic by 1980. This, he cautioned, does not mean that other generation will be outmoded by that time. He ble. utility taxation, power problems The increasing population, and in Alaska, and the traditions of new uses for energy, will bring the West. this about. One of the important The annual business meeting il.i it.:- .,u, ";:Trr "lUvely abundant hydro-said that all forms will have to Tmii. h'in.r ni into rnmrwi. electric power, energy often is increase their capacity several five relation" ' to the United 'produced lnv Jour m'"s' w"! ! fold despite the addition of atom- Stales Bonneville s excess generation ic kilowatts. This is already underway, he sollin for as lit,le as two m'11' The reason is that within only said, as shown in the recent an nouncement by the British that they are beginning a 10 year con struction program for community Atomic power plants, "It's purely a matter of eco nomics,' he explained after say ing that the United States will not take to atomic power as rap idly as the rest of the world. Fuels to produce electricity coal, oil and wood are much Utilities Ask Start on Dam Immediate construction of John Day Dam on the Columbia River was demanded Thursday by direc tors of the Washington State Pub lic Utilities District Assn. at tending the public power conven tion in Eugene. The directors said that the fed eral government "is standing idly by while public agencies and private companies are doing their part ' in developing the region In their resolution they stated that "John Day Dam is faced with fewer obstacles than any other dam authorized for con struction by the federal partner" and they said that the federal government, if it makes no new starts, will he "fully responsible" for the power shortage predicted for 1961. The PUD directors are attend ing the annual meeting of the Northwest Public Power Assn. They indicated they will not ask NWPPA consideration of their resolution. ji . lire? v factors, he said, will be new household appliances, especially the heat pump and air condi tioning. This was borne out by the speaker who preceded him, Ora Beasley of Sandpoint, Ida., who estimated that Northwest homes may require five times as much electrical energy in the next few years to run these appliances. Beasley, who warned that we have been underestimating fu ture needs, is president of the power association. The power men Thursday began at 2 p.m. with reports from the officers and commit tees. Scheduled to speak Friday morning are Paul J. Raver, su perintendent of Seattle Power and Light; C. W. Nash, director of load development for the Bri tish Columbia Power Commis sion; Col. L. H. Foote, division engineer for the Corps of En gineers; and Byron Price, assist ant administrator of Bonneville Power Administration, The meeting will end shortly after noon. Congress Asked to Authorize Building of John Day Dam (Register-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.) CHERRY PICKER This maneuvcrable, couple-size crow's nest is on display across from the Eugene Hotel, where the sessions of the Northwest Public Power Assn. are being held. Power companies use them for line maintenance. ggarxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " V;" 4 l v- V,'-Vtr5 A jj WASHINGTON Wl Congress was asked Thursday to authorize construction of John Day Dam on the Columbia River with local in terests paying 273 million of its 310 million dollar estimated cost. Rep. Coon (R-Ore), who intro duced the project bill, told a newsman three companies Port land General Electric, Pacific Power & Light and Washington Water Power as well as Eugene, Ore., are willing to join in fi nancing the project immediately. Local participants in return would be given 50-year contracts for the dam's power output in proportion to their participation in the cost. The bill defines local interests as being any agency, public or private, authorized to engage in the distribution of electric ener gy. Under present estimates, Coon said local interests are expected to pay roughly 273 million dol lars that portion believed al locable to power with the fede ral government putting up the 37 million dollars to cover costs al locable to navigation and other non-reimbursable costs. "In effect," the Eastern Ore gon congressman said in a state ment "my bill simply provides for an advance sale of power, rather than waiting until the gen erators are on the line before dis posing of it. In the case of other federal projects the government takes the taxpayers' money, builds dam, and then sells the power for money enough to pay back over a long period of years usually 55 the amount invested in the power facilities. "In the case of the John Day project the government would do its selling of power output first, collecting sufficient payments in advance to meet all the cost of the dam's power facilities, and then after the money is on the barrelhead proceeding to build the project." Coon said sufficient expression has been received from local in terests to assure the project's financial feasibility. Although local groups would share in the dam's power output to the extent of the financial par ticipation, the congressman em phasized that neither during the contract period nor afterward would they own any portion of the project. "At all times the project will be wholly owned and operated by the United States, and will remain so perpetually," he said. The 310-million-dollar project would have a minimum installed generating capacity of 1,105,000 kilowatts. It also would level the river to permit navigation in the 328-mile stretch from its mouth to Pasco, Wash. 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