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<br />1954. The NPA's objective in conducting the program has been to <br />identify policy issues for the United States emerging from the development <br />of peaceful uses of nuclear energy throughout the world. <br />Two of the 1958 publications, dealing with the possible effects of nuclear <br />energy in Italy and in Pakistan complete the program's foreign-country <br />case studies. The third book, Nuclear Energy and the U.S. Fuel Econ- <br />omy, 1955-1980, surveys this nation~s fuel position in an attempt to <br />appraise the role of nuclear energy in the next quarter century. The <br />fourth, Nuclear Energy and World Fuel Prices, looks at the world-wide <br />situation in terms of prospective interrelations of conventional fuel prices <br />and the emergence of nuclear energy. Two final studies, dealing with <br />industrial applications of nuclear process heat, and prospective nuclear <br />energy developments in Puerto Rico, were in press at the close of our <br />fiscal year. <br />A complete list of ' the books published in the National Planning Asso- <br />ciation's series on the productive uses of nuclear energy appears on page 99. <br /> <br />_ Nuclear Energy in the South was published during the year by the <br />Louisiana State University Press. The book is based upon regional and <br />technical background data prepared for a 1956 work conference on the <br />place of nuclear energy in the southern economy. The conference was <br />conducted by the Southern Regional Education Board at the request or <br />the Southern Governors' Conference. Preparation and publication of the <br />data in large part was supported by Resources for the Future. <br /> <br />- Atomic Energy Applications with Refere>lce to Underdeveloped Coun- <br />Iries by Bruce C. Netsrhert and Sam H. Schurr, published in 1957 by The <br />Juhns Hopkins Press, was reprinted in the past year. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />LONG-RUN TRENDS IN THE COST OF COPPER <br /> <br />The article that follows is based upon the study of <br />coppf'r cost, by Orris C. Herfindahl, upo" which <br />researcb was completcd during the year. Pending <br />Tr!'iew of the present manuscriPt conclusio1H are <br />fen/alille, subject to possible modification in fbe <br />light of Furth" analysis. <br /> <br />There is a widely held belief that the quality of mineral resources <br />declines with continued exploitation, and that such deterioration must <br />cause the real costs of mineral products to rise. Has this actually hap. <br />pened in the United States? <br /> <br />32 <br />