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Monday, December 12, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Nuclear power ..
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KCPL has used coal as its primary energy source in the past and by 1984 will depend on coal for about 85 per cent of its energy supply. About 15 per cent will come from Wolf Creek.
KGE traditionally has used all natural gas. But this year it produces 32 per cent of its power from coal, and in 1984 that total will increase to 50 per cent. About 29 per cent of KGE's power will come from Wolf Creek after the project is completed.
IN THE FUTURE KGE may rely even on nuclear reactors to supply its customers.
Bob Rives, KGE vice president of information services, said his company was going through a restructuring.
Although KGE has no specific plans for construction of another nuclear reactor, he said, it was "not ruling it out by any means."
Although KP & I & says it is just a matter of
before it begins to use nausea power, the
universe will need it.
This year, KP & L produces 30 per cent of oil electricity from coal, 30 per cent of oil electricity from gas.
By 1980 coal will provide 70 per cent of KP power and by 1990, 1985 coal will produce all of KP's power.
THESE FIGURES indicate that, as Kansas power companies diversify and alter their primary energy sources, nuclear power promises to be an essential link in supplying the future electrical needs of Kansans.
Kansas is not alone in its interest in building nuclear reactors. There are 65 reactors now operating in the United States, but only a few have under construction or been planned.
Commercial nuclear reactors have been around since the first one was built in 1957. Yet not until the recent threat of domestic shortages of natural gas and oil have power companies been forced to expand the use of nuclear reactors at an unprecedented pace.
However, this fast-paced nuclear growth concerns some Kansans as much as people in other countries.
MANY GROUPS and individuals in Kansas fought the conception of the Wolf Creek power plan and still are warning that the people they are doing is unsafe and morally wrong.
Frank deNoyelles, associate professor of systematics and ecology and botany, is one person who is wary of nuclear reactors and other dangerous danger to humans and the environment.
DeNoyelles said that the United States has forced itself into a need for energy alternatives and nuclear power was one way of termoriously relieving that need.
"But we've got to keep nuclear power in perspective," he said. "We obviously need it."
DeNovelles said that the most serious problem with nuclear power was the radioactive waste produced. Wastes from Wolf Creek will present a serious danger even if they are not permanently stored in Kansas, he said.
A NUCLEAR reactor generates the world's most serious pollution, he said.
DeNovelles was referring to plutonium, used in "breeder" reactors, a highly radioactive and long-lasting material that can be produced by a breeder reactor's fission process. Plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years, which means that it has to be
Russell Mesler, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, and director of KU's Nuclear Reactor Center, said he had no experience with nuclear reactors judging from their safety record.
stored for at least 200,000 years before it safely can be released into the environment.
The problem of waste storage is solely a political one. Mesler said.
The technology for storing radioactive wastes has been developed, he said, and now someone has to make a decision on where to store them.
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storing most of the wastes produced during the last 20 years at a site near Hanford, Washington. This site is temporary, and ultimately is searching for a permanent bermed repository.
Asked where the wastes from Wolf Creek would be deposited, Evans said that he did not know but that he was sure a national park had been established when Wolf Creek started operation in 1883.
An attempt to bury wastes in salt mines near Lyons several years ago was thwarted by a fire.
DeNayelles said that the nuclear industry has not developed the technology to safely transport the fuel.
"JUST A LITTLE short-sightedness now and hundreds of years later somebody will have."
DeNoyelles said nuclear power should only be used temporarily to help the United States reduce its reliance on nuclear energy.
leakage from storage containers in the recent past.
Office of Minority Affairs
Attention Students: New Financial Aid Applications for 1978-79.
Applications for next year's financial aid (you have to reapply every year) are now available in the Office of Student Financial Aid, 26 Strong Hall. There are two forms, a KU application for financial aid, and a Financial Aid Form (FAF) from the College Scholarship Service.
You should pick up the forms now and take them home with you at semester break. You can fill out the KU form yourself but the FAF requires information from your parents' 1977 income tax return. It should be completed and mailed to the College Scholarship Service (CSS) as soon after Jan. 15, as possible, because the deadline for that information to be returned to the Financial Aid Office is Feb. 15, 1978.
Forms (both the KU application and the FAF) which come back before Feb. 15 will have priority for funding. Forms received after Feb. 15 will be considered only after the priority applications. Last year, most applicant did not receive financial aid. Don't let that happen to you!
NEW THIS YEAR! The Financial Aid Form (FAF) that is filed with CSS will be used to indicate eligibility
for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG),
so you won't have to fill out an extra form for BEOG
any more. CSS will send the Eligibility Report to you at
the address you list on your FAF.
MORE GOOD NEWS! It is possible that maximum awards from BEGG will be greater in 1978-79 than ever.
If you are not eligible for BEGG money but do have financial needs, you should consider applying for a Higher Education Assistance Foundation of Kansas Foundation has established the Higher Education Loan Program of Kamas, which provides a 'Lender of Last Resort' to find commercial lenders to handle their loans.
FAIR WARNING! Federal financial aid programs (BEGO, SEOG, FISL) will be requiring what is called "reasonable academic progress" from students who want to reapply under these programs. "Progress" will be measured in terms of credit hours completed and g.p.a. earned while completing them. For example, you should carry enough hours to finish a 4 year degree in a years with a C(2.0) average.
If you have any questions about the use of the forms, student budgets, receipt of funds, etc., PLEASE contact one of the financial aid officers in 26 Strong Hall.
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