ENERGY WASTE AND NUCLEAR POWER GROWTH.

The article reports on nuclear power growth and energy waste in the United States as projected by the Energy Research and Development Administration(ERDA). It examines the intensive electrification scenarios on which ERDA projections on U. S. nuclear power growth are based revealing that the high projection from ERDA of the future electric energy growth pushes the country toward plutonium economy. It states that the use of electric resistance heating as a major industrial process heat source is just one of the wasteful and uneconomic use of electricity resulted from the shift toward all electric economy. INSET: Energy Wastes in the COAT Scenario.