CHEAPEST FORM OF ATOMIC POWER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22825, 21 December 1948, Page 8

CHEAPEST FORM OF ATOMIC POWER

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. He could not see any possibility for a number of years of economic competition by atomic power with coal or .water electricity systems, stated Sir Henry Tizard, the distinguished British scientist, interviewed. There was always the chance, however, of some discovery to change that opinion. He could not see the replacement of the existing power services within a generation. “The cheapest form of atomic power is the water-power station,” he said. “Think that one out. “In making a water-power station —the cheapest way of doing it—you are making use of the atomic power of the sun.” New Zealand, he thought, would be quite the last country to experience the change, and at present he thought there was possibly more in considering the development of power from New Zealand’s thermal activity than in atomic power. At all events, the thermal power should be investigated very extensively. Sir Henry Tizard today meets Sir Patrick Duff, the Chiefs of Staff, the Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research, Mr. T. H. McCombs, and the Defence Minister, Mr. F. Jones, and visits the laboratories of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.