US energy R and D: policy and priorities

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1974

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6393862· OSTI ID:6393862

Weinberg, A M

The primary purpose of energy research is to help implement and advance energy policy. Energy research reveals new possibilities and new options that ought to influence energy policy. Project Independence, dominated by our commitment to energy self-sufficiency, is our shorter term energy policy, but is not the entire energy policy. Decisions are now being made concerning nuclear plant siting and conservation that go much beyond any immediate commitment to self-sufficiency. Both energy policy and energy research and development strategy are presently in transition, largely due to new governmental structures being created. Even when ERDA and FEA are in place, there will remain the matter of assuring that ERDA research policies are consistent with FEA energy policies and that FEA energy policies take adequate account of the new options created by ERDA's studies. Long-range modalities - solar, geothermal, fusion, fission breeders - are briefly discussed.

• Research Organization: US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6393862
• Report Number(s): DOE/TIC-10716
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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