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Monday, July 29.1974
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Profs Differ on Future of Atomic Energy
BY CARE YOUNG Kansan Staff Reporter
By CARL YOUNG
Nuclear power plants have been heralded as the answer to man's ever-growing demand for electricity by scientists and business leaders.
Electric power consumption in the United States is expected to quadruple by 2000, when nuclear power plants will be generating 34 per cent of the electricity in the country according to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
Because of this rapid increase in consumption of electricity, the AEC is betting that nuclear power plants will do future generations more good than the radioactive waste produced by these plants will do harm. Several University of Kansas professors gave different odds on the wisdom of the AEC's energy bet.
Nuclear power is going to be essential in the next three or four decades, Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, said Friday, unless the people of the world start embracing nuclear energy. The nuclear power was the only power source capable of filling the gap between fossil fuels, such as petroleum and coal, and an endless power source, such as the sun.
BRICKER SAID nuclear generating plants were only a stopgap power source because the supply of uranium, which fuels the fission process of nuclear plants, is limited, as is the supply of gas and oil.
Two other kinds of nuclear plants are possible, he said. They are breeder reactors, which would generate fuel for other nuclear plants as a by-product of their production. The second kind would use deuterium (heavy hydrogen) as fuel.
Breeder reactors are potentially more dangerous than fission reactors, the kind in use throughout the United States, Bricker said. Because of that potential, he said, Breeder reactors were also used in the northern tip of Scotland and the other in Russia.
Fusion power plants are still in the experimental stage, Bricker said, and will not be in use until the first quarter of the 21st century. Little is known about fusion, but it appears to be safer than reactor breathers, he said.
Francis Prosser, professor of physics and astronomy, said that fission plants were relatively safe sources of power. Fission plants can't explode like a nuclear bomb, he said.
"This will not happen, even under the worst conditions," Prosser said. "The AEC has run tests over a number of times to see what happens in a small reactor when all the stops are pulled. It destroys the reactor . . . but the idea of it becoming a nuclear explosion and spreading the nuclear matter is incorrect."
**NUCLEAR SAFETY** should be separated into two questions. Prosaer said, is it safe to itself and will it hurt yourself?
"It is certainly imperative that it be safe to the people in the vicinity," Prosser said. "It seems to me that the other question, whether it is safe to itself, should be a worry of people who are building it and paying for it. That is their loss if it does not protect itself. Those two questions need to be separated."
The AEC sets strict rules for reactor safety and licensing, said Guy Oldfield, radiation and safety officer for the KU Nuclear Reactor Center. The AEC regulates distance of a reactor from cities, amount of radiation they discharge into the surrounding area as well as distance from a geological fault.
At one time, each reactor was unique, said Russell Mester, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering. In order to license a reactor, the AEC had engineered to end, which added years to construction time.
The newer reactors are standardized models, Mesler said, and can be built more quickly.
The demand for reactors is increasing because standardized models can be built in less time, Mesler said, and because countries are seeing nuclear power as the answer to the fossil fuel shortage.
E. T. Zeller, director of the KU Radiation Physics Laboratory of the Space Technology Center, is working to establish an international radioactive waste disposal in Antarctica.
cleaning the spent fuel rods, according to all professors.
Zeller said 440,000 gallons of nuclear waste had been produced since 1954.
"We will be generating 6,000 tons per year by 2000." Zeller said. "That is more than enough to fill every man, woman and child."
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THIS DEADLY WASTE will have to be contained for one-ialf million (M) years before it becomes safe. Zeller said, and man has been on Earth one-thirteenth of that time.
In an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic scientists, Zeller said a nuclear depository must be safe from natural disaster and located on non-functional sites, where location that fulfills all those requirements, Zeller said.
Antarctica is also international territory, Zeller said, so all countries could use it.
"This is not merely a problem of the United States," Zeller said. "Radioactive waste do not pass through glass."
LARRY E. DANIELSON, Kansas City, Kan, senior, become membership and public relations manager of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce today. Danielson will assume responsibilities formerly under the administrative assistant, Kirk McAlexander. McAlexander is now an assistant to the dean of men.
Before joining the Chamber staff, Danielson was employed by Heller-Alward Advertising Consultants of Topkea. The advertising guide was his primary responsibility.
FOUR UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENTS have been awarded Boeing Company Scholarship for the 1974-75 season. This scholarship to the University, Endowment Association,
Mary Sue Kingsley, Hutchinson senior,
Charles S. Douglas III, Shawnee Mission
Society, Jamison, Lawrence senior,
and Philip J. Sparks, Hutchinson senior,
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New Gallup Poll 51 Per Cent For Impeachment
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - Fifty-one per cent of the American people believe President Nixon should be impeached and 48 per cent should be removed from office, the latest Gallup Poll shows.
The House Judiciary Committee approved one article of impeachment on Saturday by a vote of 27 to 11 and is considering more.
The Gallup survey, taken in mid-July, covered 1,555 adults who were asked whether they believed there was enough training to bring Nixon to trial before the Senate.
Fifty-one per cent said yes, 30 per cent said no and 19 per cent had no opinion.
Those surveyed also were asked: "Do you think Nixon's actions are serious enough to warrant his being removed from the presidency, or not?" Forty-six per cent said yes, 38 per cent said no and 16 per cent had no opinion.
THE PUBLIC'S VIEW on impeachment has not varied much in recent surveys, accusing both Democrats and Republicans of bias.
In a June survey, 50 per cent said Nixon,
should be impeached, 32 per cent said he
should not be and 18 per cent offering no
opinion.
On the question of removal from office, 41 per cent said in June that the President should be removed from office, 41 per cent and 15 per cent offered no opinion.
In an April survey, 46 per cent said Nixon should be removed from office, 42 per cent disagreed and 12 per cent offered no opinion.
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Maine Republican Defends Vote
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Rep. William Cohen, R-Maine, returned to his home state yesterday for an emotional defense of his vote to recommend impeachment of President Nixon.
Cohen, in a statewide television interview, said he voted in the House Judiciary Committee for the impeachment of Nixon because the soul of America was at stake.
In a 27-11 vote Saturday night, the committee recommended to the full House of Representatives that Nixon be impeached for contruction of justice in the Watergate coverup.
mained in Washington yesterday, preparing for today's debate on further articles of impeachment. But a few made quick trips home.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., held a kick-off last night for his re-election campaign in Harlem and said, "There is overwhelming support in my district for impeachment." He said his mail had been running 20 to 1 in favor of impeachment.
Most of the 38 committee members rebut he said the President "in the process, by act or acquiescence, has allowed the rule of law, the very cement of our civilization, the most essential tools of arrogance, oppression and abuse."
Even as the fateful vote was about to be taken Saturday night, Rep. Walt Flowers, DAAs, from a conservative district, felt threatened by the people who elected him to Congress.
Flowers said he knew that his vote favoring impeachment would hurt some of his friends deeply, but "I probably have enough pain for them and me."
Headquarters Under Way At New Location Today
Cohen, one of six Republicans on the committee who backed impeachment, said he voted for Nixon and believed Nixon had contributed towards securing world peace.
Headquarters, a drug abuse and personal crisis center, will be in operation today in its new location, 1002 Massachusetts St., accrue for Unie Evkeer, Headquarters director.
The move from the old location, 1632 Kentucky St., had been underway for about a week, she said, but counseling services had not been interrupted.
The new location provides better working conditions for regular services and space for implementation of a grant from the National Council on Drug Abuse, she said.
"We have a lot more space here," she said, "and it's a lot nicer."
The owner of the 1832 Kentucky St.
location had decided to sell the building,
which he acquired.
The decision was difficult, he said, but one
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Headquarters is renting their new building from Friends Church KYM, building 8.
Unkefer said that Headquarters' new
grant didn't include money for regular operating expenses.
Rent for the new building is $20 more a month than the old location, she said.
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In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the influential daily Politika said there were very few candidates in the full House of Representatives would be nominated for its recommendation to impeach Nixon.
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In Cairo, where Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has on occasions praised Nixon for his foreign policy, the newspaper Al Akhbar said the vote showed "Nikon's rivals exploited Watergate and the mistakes he committed" in order to undermine public confidence in a leader elected in a landslide.
Judiciary Committee Vote News Around the World
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By The Associated Press
The vote by the House Judiciary Committee to recommend the impeachment of President Nixon was headline news yesterday in most of the world.
Tass, the Soviet news agency, emphasized the White House reaction that Nixon was confident he would not be impeached.
In a two-paragraph story, Tass reported only that the Judiciary Committee had endorsed the impeachment resolution "in view of the investigations of the so-called Watergate affair."
The mass circulation Sunday Mirror commented: "So, after all the long desperate month of fighting and stalling the 61st day, the 62nd day. President now face the ordeal of his life."
The vote got front-page play in British newspapers, although it broke late for the next session.
Since the Watergate break-in, China's state-controlled radio and press have remained totally silent on the incident.
The Soviet government has given all developments in the Watergate affair and impeachment proceedings minimum publicity.
The Japan Broadcasting Corporation relayed the committee vote to Japanese television viewers by satellite from Washington.
The Japanese news agency Kyodo reported from Peking, "There is no mistake that China is seriously concerned" with the Dump speech said the concern stems from China's high degree of Nixon's role in opening U.S.-C. relations.
The Italian press bannered the committee vote on front pages.
"Nixon in State of Impeachment," was the headline in Rome's conservative IL Tempo, L'Unita, the organ of the powerful Italian Communist party, said, "The Committee Decided He Has Violated His Presidential Mandate."
Smothers Bros. Dionne Warwick At Homecoming
The Homecoming concert for the University of Kansas will feature Dionne Warwick, popular singer, and the Smooth Brothers, a comedy and song team. Oct. 26 to November 14, to make to Mike Miller, adviser for Student Union Activities and the program's sponsor.
"Rick Lindman, who is in charge of concerts, and myself collected several talent availabilities and submitted them to the "board for final decision," Miller said yesterday. "The board decided the talent was within a reasonable financial cost."
Tickets will be $3, $4 and $5. Pre-paid mail orders will be accepted, but not filled until tickets go on sale during the last week of September.
Shows are scheduled at 7 and 10 p.m. The Snothers Brothers will open the act,.
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