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<br />River and Bratsk Dam on the Angara ,River. Krasnoyarsk IDam will be a concr~te structure
<br />of 2,300 feet, long blocking a V-shaped mountain valley. It will have 4,004,000
<br />kilowatts installed capacity--double the biggest Amertcan plant--and will.include a'
<br />vertical ship elevator which will lift vessels 370 feet upward to a metal trough.
<br />This trough will cross over ,a, railroad line and open into the reservoirs. Ea~h,of the
<br />generators at thi~ dam wi11 generate 286,000 kilowatts as compared to 108,000 kilo-
<br />watts for the biggest American generators.
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<br />The'Bratsk Dam is a 3-mile earth dam ending in a massive concrete spillway and
<br />powerplant in a deep rock gorge. The,plant will have 3,840,000 kilowatts capacity,
<br />derived from 18 213,333 kilowatt generators.
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<br />One of the better known Soviet proje~ts is the Volga-Don canal, which,connects
<br />t~e B1~ck and Caspian Sea basins, and per~its the Soviets to build submarines in
<br />large i~land shipbuilding yards along the Volga River.
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<br />These examples will suffice to shOW the caliber of ingenuity and engineering
<br />wh~ch are being applied to Soviet water resource development. I have two tables
<br />,here which I would like to submit for incorporation into the record, with your
<br />permission, Mr. Chairman. Table I shows the magnitude of construction work in two
<br />SQviet dams and one America~ dam. ,Table II compares certain major Soviet and
<br />American dams and powerplants.
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<br />Now I should like to summarize the Soviet accomplishments in certain specific
<br />fields of 'water resource development, beginning with hydroelectric power.
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<br />HYDROELECTRIC POWER
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<br />The total known capacity of Soviet hydroelectric plants ever 10,000 kilowatts
<br />capacity, complete or u~der construction, is 25,883,188 kilowatts. This figure does
<br />not include 44 plants for which the capacities are not available to us. In addition,
<br />the Soviet Union has hundreds of small plants, built mainly to serve rural and
<br />agricultural needs.
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<br />By comparison, the, tbtal U. S,'hydro capacity at the end of 1957 was 27,676,000
<br />kilowatts, with approximately,lO,OOO,OOO kilowatts more under construction. Thus
<br />rig~t now Soviet hydroelectric development appears to be roughly equal to ours in
<br />amount.' However, their rate of increase is greater than ours.
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<br />The United States has no plants completed which reach the 2,000,000 kilowatt
<br />mark, although John Day Dam on the Columbia River, on which construction will start
<br />this year, will ultimately have 2,000,000 kilowatts if sufficient upstream storage
<br />is developed to make this amount of capacity economically justified. It will have
<br />initially 1,200,000 or 1,400,OOO'kilowatts. Grand Coulee Dam, also on the Columbia
<br />River, has 1,944,000 kilowatts of installed capacity in two powerhouses, plus
<br />30,000 kilowatts by house units. Considerable study has been given to the construc-
<br />tion of ~ third powerhouse which would increase the capacity to close to 3,000,000
<br />kilowatts. The combined Canadian-United States Barnhart Island Powerplant ~n the
<br />St, Lawrenc~ River, rapidly nearing the power-on-the-line date, will have 1,880,000
<br />kilowatts of installed capacity, aalf of which goes to each country. The new Niagara
<br />Powerplant of the New York Power Authority, on which construction will commence this
<br />year, will have 2,190,000 kilowatts of installed capacity and thus will be, for some
<br />time at least, the largest United States hydroelectric plant.
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<br />But the USSR has ten plants ranging from 2,000,000 to 6,000,000 kilowatts, of
<br />which one is almost complete, three are under construction, and six are in planning
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