U.S. Plan For ‘Nuplexes’
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.
The United States Atomic Energy Commission is developing plans for “nuplexes," huge nuclear complexes which would each give employment to 100,000 people and provide for five million people. The chairman of the A.E C. (Mr Glenn Seabort) defines a “nuplex" as "a giant agroindustrial complex built round nuclear reactors and using advanced agricultural and industrial technologies.” “For SUSIOOOm a nuplex could be built to sustain 100,000 farmers, labourers and their families,” he said. “And the same nuplex would feed five million others and export fertilisers to grow food for 50 million more.”
The complexes would generate their own electricity and pump from the oceans unlimited quantities of water for irrigation and industrial purposes.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31769, 28 August 1968, Page 21
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