British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher supports the accelerated development of nuclear energy

Abstract

 According to reports in July and October 1979 by the US "Nuclear News", British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made it clear on June 6 that she supported the development of nuclear energy in the UK. Mrs. Thatcher has just returned from a visit to Tricastin, France, where the European diffusion plant is being put into operation and the nuclear power plant with four pressurized water reactors is nearing completion. Impressed by the French's plan to make nuclear power 50 percent needed by 1985, she said Britain's current