NUCLEAR POWER

The January 1996 issue of Public Opinion, published by the Nuclear Energy Institute, Suite 400, 1776 I Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20006-3708, reports a survey of 1,000 adult Americans by Bruskin Goldring Research in November 1995 on the subject of nuclear power. Of the respondents, 80% replied that nuclear power should be an option for future new power plants, and 72% supported this as an option for their area of the country. However, only 12% replied that we should build new nuclear power plants now, and 44% felt "uneasy'' about the existing nuclear plant nearest to them. Also, 74% considered it important that American manufacturers of nuclear power plants play a leading role in world markets. Few of these people, of course, have any reliable knowledge about nuclear power. Their responses are primarily a measure of the effects of the ongoing propaganda war.

The January-February 1996 Uranium Information Centre Newsletter, available from GPO Box 1649N, Melbourne 3001, Australia, reports that seven nuclear power reactors began operation in 1995 - in the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Armenia, South Korea , Japan (2), and India.. They estimate that, by 2005, world mine production of uranium will need to double over that provided by currently existing mines.