The shopping centre at Farsta, Sweden's atomic town.
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WORLD'S
FIRST ATOMIC TOWN
IS A HOUSEWIFE'S DREAM
A young couple in the loungercom of their Farsta home.
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FIVE years ago Farsta was just another piece of picture postcard pine clad, boulder-strewn, lapped by a Jake. Today it is the world's first all-atomic town, and a housewife's dream.
Swedish countryside
The town's private atomic furnace supplies light, central heating, power for cooking and constant hot water for 30,000 people.
A crew of five to the shift run it from a green-painted multi-dialled control room and its 18 tons of uranium should provide steady heat for seven years without refuelling.
Ultra modern houses, maisonettes and blocks of flats up to 18 storeys high have mushroomed plus a com- pact traffic-free centre with cinema, theatre and 50 shops.
The atom furnace, two miles from the town across a lake is discreetly buried 60 feet below the surface in a cavern gouged out of solid rock.
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The cavern is big enough to hold fair-sized parish church complete
THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER-VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2
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