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
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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.
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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. I
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