ATOMIC POWER IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27734, 11 August 1955, Page 13

ATOMIC POWER IN BRITAIN

Plans For Next 20 Years

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 830 p.m.) GENEVA, August 10. Sir John Cockcroft, Director of the Atomic Research Establishment at Harwell in Britain, said in Geneva today that by 19/5 nuclear power in Britain should be doing the work of at least 40,000,000 tons of coal a year—thus providing about 40 per cent, of the energy for electricity. « An<Fnn?^’ en *l y « l,Se< V ?> ne l on uran ' um would do the work of 1,000.000 tons of coal, Sir John Cockcroft said. He told the United Nations conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy that the British Central Electricity Authority expected to build 12 nuclear power stations for successive completion between 1960 and 1965. “The output of power stations is expected to rise from 100 metawatts (100,000 kilowatts) to at least 200 megawatts. “The total installed capacity should therefore exceed 1000» megawatts by 1965, by which time nuclear energy will be doing the work of several million tons of coal a year.”