Chapter 61 Cut off "nucleated rosettes"

My main concern with quadrupling the price of oil is how to ensure that this drastic action does not prompt the world to accelerate another already strong momentum - the construction of nuclear power plants, a more efficient and less expensive form of Alternative Energy. Kissinger's dean at Harvard and his brief boss, McGeorge Bundy, served as an adviser to John F. Kennedy's National Security Council.Bundy left the White House in 1966 to become chairman of the Ford Foundation, the largest private foundation in the United States at the time.During his tenure as chairman of the Ford Foundation, he played an important role in influencing US domestic policy. In December 1971, Bundy set up a new key project at the foundation, the Energy Policy Project, with $4 million and three years, and the project leader was David Freeman.During the oil crisis of 1974, Bundy's research report "Timing: The Future of Energy in the United States" was published amid controversy, with the purpose of forming a public debate at the critical moment of the oil crisis.

For the first time a deceitful thesis emerged within the US establishment and was made public: "Energy growth and economic growth are separable, they are not twins." Freeman's research promotes novel and inefficient "alternatives" Energy sources such as wind power, solar photovoltaic panels and burning recyclable waste.The Ford Report launched a fierce attack on nuclear power, claiming that technologies related to nuclear power generation could theoretically be used to build an atomic bomb."The fuel itself, or its by-product, plutonium, could be used directly or processed as raw material for the manufacture of atomic bombs or other explosive devices," the report declared.

The Ford report accurately notes that the main future contender to challenge oil for energy supremacy is nuclear energy, and warns: "Nuclear energy will spread rapidly everywhere in the world due to developments in nuclear technology, especially fast nuclear reactors (fast reactors) and centrifuge technology for enriching uranium.” Project Bondi defines the “green” anti-nuclear framework for US financial institutions. By the early 1970s, nuclear technology had become the preferred method of future high-efficiency power generation, more efficient (and more environmentally friendly) than oil or coal.Under the impact of the oil crisis, the European Community has started large-scale nuclear energy development projects. In 1975, the member states participating in this plan advocated that by 1985, 160-200 nuclear power plants should be built in the European continent.

Regarding the impact of the oil crisis in 1974, in 1975, the Schmidt government of West Germany made a rational response and decided to build a nuclear power plant project with a power generation capacity of 42 billion watts. About 45%.In Europe, only France has surpassed West Germany. France will build a nuclear power plant with a generating capacity of 45 billion watts before 1985.In the wake of the oil crisis in 1975, Italian Minister of Industry Carlo Donat Katin instructed Italian nuclear companies ENEL and CNEN to draw up a plan to build around 20 nuclear power plants in the early 1980s.Even Spain, which had just emerged from Franco's 40-year rule, proposed plans to build 20 nuclear power plants by 1983.A conventional gigawatt nuclear facility can basically meet all the electricity needs of a modern industrial city with a population of one million.

When the oil crisis occurred in 1974, the nuclear energy industry in Europe began to grow rapidly, especially in France and West Germany.For the first time, France and West Germany are rivals to the United States in the nuclear export market, which until now has been dominated by the United States.The French side received a letter from the Shah of Iran asking to help Iran build four nuclear reactors, and the Federal German Electric Power Company also received a letter with the same content.At this time, France had signed an agreement with the Bhutto government of Pakistan to help Pakistan build a modern nuclear infrastructure.Negotiations between the West German government and Brazil led to an agreement in 1976 to strengthen cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.The agreement includes the construction of eight nuclear reactors and the regeneration and enrichment of uranium reactor fuel by West Germany.In full accordance with the spirit of Eisenhower's 1953 "Peaceful Atomic Energy Declaration" and with the full support of their respective governments, the nuclear energy companies of Germany and France began negotiations with selected countries.Obviously, Anglo-American control of energy is based on controlling the world's major energy resources. If these quite feasible plans continue, the position of Anglo-American will be threatened.

After the war, nuclear power represented a more technological advance than oil, just as oil was more important than coal in the late 19th century when Lord Fisher and Churchill argued whether the British Navy should be switched from coal to oil. Advanced as well.The difference is that in the 1970s Britain and its American brethren had a firm grip on the world's oil supplies.In particular, nuclear technology promises a potentially unlimited world supply of energy if plans for commercial fast nuclear reactors and thermonuclear reactions come to fruition. As a direct result of the oil shock of 1974, two organizations were established within the world nuclear industry, interestingly both based in London. In early 1975, an informal semi-secret organization - the "Nuclear Suppliers Group" or "London Club" - was formed.This group included Britain, the United States and Canada, as well as France, West Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union.This was an early effort by the United Kingdom and the United States to impose self-discipline on nuclear exports. The Nuclear Suppliers Group was supplemented in May 1975 with the formation of another secret society, the Uranium Society of London.The Uranium Society of London is dominated by historically British colonial countries, including Canada, Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.These "internal" organizations were necessary but not sufficient for Anglo-American interests to contain the nuclear "threat" of the early 1970s.As one prominent American anti-nuclear figure from the Aspen Institute put it: "We must cut the 'nuclear rose' out." And they did.