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Mondav. March 29, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Nuclear power plant discussed
By CAROL LUMAN Staff Writer
Three opponents and one advocate of the proposed Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Plant near Burkington discussed the project and asked the Lawrence Public Library Suddorph.
The Wolf Creek plant, tentatively scheduled for completion in 1982, is in the licensing stage. The plant, a l150 megawatt project of the Kansas Gas and Electric Co. (KG&E), Wichita, and the Kansas City Water Company, must be licensed by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the federal government before construction can begin.
Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, was host for the meeting that be organized in a contract between KG&E, KCPL and the Kansas Water Resources Board. The contract would provide water reservoir near Burlington.
LICENSEING OF the plant is under federal control, but the state enters the picture because of the use of state water from the reservoir. If the legislature doesn't reject the contract by Wednesday, it will take effect Thursday.
Bob Rives, a public relations representative of KG&E and the lone proponent of the project on the panel, said that if all goes well, he would be out of town for date construction on the project to begin.
Hearings by the safety and licensing board are scheduled to resume in Kansas City.
However, all the speakers agreed there is no reason to believe that the plant won't be
licensed because the federal government has never refused a license request for a
RIVES WAS the first speaker and gave
them knowledge KG&E believes the plant should be grown.
First, he said, is the need for more power sources.
Rives said that in 1975 KG&E was able to get only two-thirds of the natural gas it wanted. He said estimations for 1976 included about $30 billion by the company's needs would be available.
The second reason, Rives said, is that it is important for the country not to rely on one source of fuel to meet energy needs in the future.
He said massive strikes in one energy industry could cripple the country if it were able to do so.
For this reason, he said, utility companies should have coal to back up uranium (the fuel used in nuclear plants), and uranium to back up coal for energy production.
THE THIRD reason is a matter of economics. Rives said, because it is more economical to produce energy in a nuclear plant than it to obtain from fossil fuels.
Atomic Industrial Forum figures for 1975 showed that a kilowatt hour of electricity produced by nuclear power was about 63 per cent cheaper than one produced from oil. A further 40 percent increased electricity costs about 30 per cent lower than a kilowatt hour produced by coal.
One problem that arises with the construction of a nuclear power plant is the question of storing atomic wastes. Rives reported in dealing dealt with by the federal government.
The Energy Research and Development Agency is supervising a pilot project to build a repository for atomic wastes in the western new Mexico on federal land, he said.
NEW FEDERAL regulations also require atomic wastes to be processed in solid form to prevent leakage into water tables and contamination of land.
Rives said it wasn't a question of whether the industry could take care of the wastes, but which of the available ways of taking care of the wastes should be used.
BILL Ward, Great Plains Windstorms, Inc.
Lawrence, said that although there had been no major accidents to date in nuclear energy, the possibility of an out break the possibility for one in the future.
He said that reports citing the small chance for such an occurrence weren't comprehensive enough to support continued building of nuclear power plants.
Ward said the "people problem" connected with nuclear plants also concerned
ALTHOUGH REPORTS have stressed the mechanical and structural safety of nuclear plants, he said the problem of negligence or even malice of people who work at the plants could pose a serious danger.
There was also a danger of terrorism at the plants, he said.
Ward said alternate methods of energy production had been ignored in favor of nuclear power. With wind power, solar energy and the conservative use of current coal supplies, the nation doesn't need to rely on nuclear power for energy, he said.
Because of these alternate energy
sources. Ward said, the construction of more nuclear plants should be postponed.
A representative of the People's Energy Project, Paul Johnson, said that the biggest proponents of nuclear energy were those companies from the most fit it—the utility companies.
HE SAID the utilities were wasting nonrepliable resources such as natural gas
Direct use of natural gas by consumers would be more economical and less wasteful, he said, than using it to produce electricity.
Utility companies aren't encouraging the use of alternate energy sources, he said, because solar and wind energy don't lend themselves to control by the utilities as nuclear power does.
David Hue-Taugh, a law student at Washburn University, said the reason he advocated a moratorium on nuclear plant construction was the increasing number of questions about the safety of nuclear power plants, even within the nuclear power industry.
He said he had attended meetings in Tennessee, where there are nuclear power plants, and he was surprised by the number of cities cited by members of the industry itself.
Publication faces financial woes
By CHERYL HAWLEY
Staff Writer
A magazine that promotes creative writing at the University of Kansas is facing publication interruption because of financial difficulties.
Cottonwood Review, a national literary magazine, needs to raise $1,529 by June to get matching funds from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM). Richard Colyer, assistant professor of English and advisory editor, said last week.
WHEN THE magazine was established about 10 years ago, it was funded by the Student Senate. Colyer said the Senate continued to fund Cottonwood Review even though it knew the magazine didn't really qualify as a student organization. He said it was "a very important role" and a couple of years ago, it was unable to continue supporting the magazine.
Cleyer said the magazine turned to the Endowment Association for money and received funds from them for a couple of years. Last year, the Endowment Association gave Cottownbrook Review $2,000 and additional $880 was provided by CLM.
"We are living hand-to-mouth." Colyer said about the funds for the magazine this
The Endowment Association had other priorities this year, Colyer said, and the University had no other such obligation that said he sent a letter of request for funding several weeks ago to the University and that if any funds were granted, they would only come from the Endowment association.
The CCLM grant is a prestigious one because only about 40 magazines in the US have it.
COTTONWOOD Review is better known
TODAY: RITA NAPIER, assistant professor of history, will give a lecture with students on "Pollock as it relates to Religious Beliefs of the Northwest Coast Indians" at 3:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. BRAN DEFOACIO of the University of Columbia in "Quantum Field Theory in 1967 - Progress Part II" at 3:25 p.m. 282 Madison Ave.
TONIGHT: OPERATION FRIENDSHIP will meet at 7 in the Baptist Student Center, 1629 W. 19th. There will be a SLAVIC AND SOVIET AREA STUDIES LECTURE at 7 in the Froum Room of the Union. HAROLD WETHEY, professor emeritus of art history from the University of Michigan, will lecture on "Love and Music in Tuition's Painting" at 8 in the Spooner Hall Lecture Room. The Room will feature works by various artists including Swarthout Recital Hall. WARREN MAURER, professor of German, will present "Sunken City Legends: A Mini-Course in German Folkcore" at 8 at 1041 W. 29th Terr.
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Colyer said he couldn't fully understand or explain why sales are lower locally. He said that he thought many people didn't know what a literary magazine was and that they were hooked on the kinds of magazine they found in local bookstores.
in other parts of the country than it is locally, according to its sales figures. Although 400 Cottonwood Reviews are bought annually by libraries and subscribers, Colyer said, only 200 are sold locally.
"Cottontown's claim to fame on the University budget is that it is part of the University's cultural gift to the nation as a campus of Lawrence community." Colyer said.
THE MAGAZINE offers a start to its writers because some large magazines won't accept the work of people who haven't written or writing printed in smaller publications.
HE SAID studies about nuclear power plant failures are incomplete and until a method of analyzing all possible failures is devised, construction of nuclear plants must be halted.
Cottonwood Review publishes a variety of writing, including poetry and fiction, to appeal to a wide range of readers. Colyer said some Cottonwood Reviews had been composed of as much as 50 per cent local writing.
Announcements . . .
The editors of Cottonwood Review also print Open House, a newspaper with a literary format, to help get more writing published.
Culver said Roosevelt University in Chicago had ordered 75 copies of Open University material.
Selection of submitted manuscripts is made by a poetry board and a fiction board. Colyer said the boards got the manuscripts from writers who typed them and sent them with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Box J in the Kansas Union.
In the past, Cottonwood Review publishers have printed chap books, small books of 25-30 pages. They have printed a series of individual writers' chap books and have sold out in two weeks a portfolio of ten writers. Financial trouble has stopped the chap book publications, the same problem now threatening Cottonwood Review.
The Parks and Recreation Department will take applications for SUMMER EMPLOYMENT until Thursday. Jobs are open in park maintenance, playgrounds, day camps and the swimming pool. Applications are at the Parks and Recreation Department and the First National Bank, third floor.
Under the contract with the water resources board, KG&E and KCPL would pay the state 6.4 cents per 1,000 gallons for the water from the reservoir, and would pump that water into a reservoir they will build for the project.
The state would use the profit from the sale of the water to pay the federal government for the right to store the water in a reservoir which was built by the federal government.
The money currently being used to pay the federal government for use of the reserves is
Pre-nursing Club meeting
March 30
7:00 p.m.
Jayhawk Room
Nurse Clinician Speaker
The All-New National Lampoon Iron On Book
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More bus passes, cash taken from Senate office
These hearttransfer designs would originally sell at stores everywhere for $10 each; indeed it to $25, but the National Lampoon
Burglaries broke into the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union Friday night or Saturday morning and took about $150 worth of bus passes and about $20 in cash
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It was the second time this year that the office had been burglarized. A similar break-in occurred February 22 when about 100 people, and a small amount of cash were stolen.
Teddie Tasheff, student body president,
said Saturday that she reported the break-in
to the KU Police Department shortly after
she discovered it Saturday morning.
According to Tasheff, the bargains apparently climbed through an opening above the office's main door to gain entry. They broke through the office's acoustic cellar, entered the door into the treasurer's office where keys to other inner offices were located.
A considerable amount of valuable office equipment was left untouched, she said.
Tasheff said a screen would soon be installed on the office's main door to try to prevent future break-ins. The ceilings of the office also will be reinforced, she said.
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REVUE.
Your chance to dance to
2. Ecstacy, Passion and Pain
1. Marty Rock's Disco Tex and the Sexo-letters
3. The First Choice
PLUS, a '1,000 Dance Contest Friday, April 9th 7:00-12:00 p.m. at Kemper Arena
The biggest Disco happening . . .
Tickets $5.50 in advance & $6.50 day of the concert at Caper's Corners, Tigers Records and Kief's.
Contestants, Only the First 500 Couples to Sign Up at Kemper Arena, 4:00-7:00 p.m., will be allowed to enter the Dance Contest.
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