University Daily Kansan, March 27, 1981
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TMI accident to be recalled
By ROB STROUD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Two years ago tomorrow a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrison, Pa., began to overheat because of a mechanical failure, and the city set up a warning and setting off this nation's worst accident at a commercial nuclear plant.
A million gallons of contaminated water are gradually being released into the adjacent Steuqua塘河, River, and Lake. The water is then released into the air from the crippled plant.
And while plans continue to reopen the facility, 50,000 people are expected to mark the second anniversary of the accident by marching on Harrisonburg.
A KU group, the Students Anti-Nuclear Alliance, has scheduled a rally for tomorrow, "in remembrance of the group's death," the group's president, said yesterday.
The rally will begin shortly after noon at South Park, 11th and Massachusetts streets. Barnes said he expected about a hundred people to march downtown, scheduled for 12:30.
"We'll be carrying signs and making people aware of the dangers of Three Mile Island," he said.
BARNES SAID the dangers of nuclear energy were more severe than most people realized.
"People say no one has ever died
from Three Mile Island, but they're lucky we can't trace the cause of cancer," he said. "There have been several cases of radiation released into the food chain."
He said it would take forwards the effects of radiation leakage at Three Mile Island to be fully realized. He added that incidences of cancer in adults from nuclear tests were conducted 30 years ago far exceeded the national average.
An accident similar to the one near Harrisburg could also happen at the Wolf Creek nuclear plant under control of the Army Corps, miles south of Lawrence. The plant is scheduled to be completed in 1984. Officials of Kansas City Power and Light, a financier of the plant, do not believe an attack is likely, however.
"The Wolf Creek steam-supply system is generically like the one at Three Mile Island, but it was built by a different company and has a different design," Victor Poirier, KCP&L community affairs manager, said.
POIRIER SAID an automatic backup system at Wolf Creek that was not in the Three Mile Island plant would continue to feed water to cool the reactor even in the event of failure in the primary system.
But anti-nuclear groups have raised questions concerning the strength of
Wolf Creek's foundation mat, upon which the reactor sits.
"Some testing cylinders did not meet the required standards," Poier said. The cylinders act as cushions for the mat.
Rather than correct the deficiency, however, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lowered its standards for Wolf Creek.
"That estimate was made before anything about the plant was known," Poirier said, adding that the first solid estimate was about $900 million.
"Further tests determined the cylinders were well within the requirements for what Wolf Creek should have," Porier said.
THE ESTIMATED COST of completing construction at the Wolf Creek plant is $1.7 billion, compared to the original estimate of $560 million.
He said the main reason for the escalating costs was the increased regulation of nuclear plants in the wake of Three Mile Island.
"The U.S. already has a nuclear system that is the safest in the world," he said. "What we're doing now for the purpose of way beyond what we necessary."
He said he was not sure whether the Reagan Administration would decrease regulation on the nuclear program to emphasize it would not increase regulation.
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Enrollment changed for spring 1982; departments get more schedule time
Fred Vanveck, professor of math,
proposed the amendment for calendar
revisions for the 1981-82 and
1982-83 academic years that will
change the enrollment period for the
spring 1982 semester.
Next year's spring enrollment will have a new twist to it because of a change made by the University Council yesterday.
In its original form, the revision would hold registration and enrolment on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 12 and 13, 1982, with an orientation and registration period on Monday, Jan. 11.
The change will move the start of the enrollment period to noon on that
Vanlock said the change would give departments extra time to schedule changes to accommodate students' start on Thursday, Jan. 14.
Monday, ending it at noon on Wednesday.
He said the math department normally had a high demand for math classes, and it needed extra time to complete minute changes in course offerings.
He noted that many of the larger departments needed the extra half day to allow more flexibility to make more classes available to students.
With the council's action, or-
tation will begin next fall on Wed-
nesday, Aug. 19, with classes
beginning on Monday, Aug. 24.
Fall semester classes will end Monday, Dec. 7, with the finals period running from Tuesday, Dec. 8 through Friday, Dec. 18.
The last day of classes for the spring semester will be Saturday, May 1, 1882, with finals beginning on Monday, April 4, and ending Thursday, May 13.
Commencement for the spring 1982 semester will be held on Sunday, May 16.
Commencement had originally been scheduled for Monday, May 17, but the change to Sunday has been encouraged by University officials who feel Commencement would have better attendance, and have a more festive atmosphere if held on a Sunday.
"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?"
Psalms 2:1 and Acts 4:25
This 2nd Psalm, of God's Book of Messages to man,
asks this question and then answers it by saying the heathen rage to get rid of God's Commandments. It appears our nation, in fact our world has just about nothing to do with them! Several places the Bible says at times the people of God so low that they were "worse than the heathen!"
Commandments perfectly for us, paid our penalty for disobedience, rose from the dead and engaged Himself to power over them.
A number of times in recent years have seen news items telling of other nations, whose government and people were considered pagans by the more enlightened nations, refusing to let some movie films produced in this country be shown in their land as being too immoral and debasing for their folks to see" "WORSE THE MAN THAT SPEAKED!" speaking by some of His Prophets God said: "SHALL I NOT BE AVENGERED ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS?"
The man in hell fire Christ told about in Luke 16th chapter pleaded that his five brothers still alive on earth be warned last they come where he was. He was told the prophet to tell them how Jesus came to Prophets ... if they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the cave of Moses to Lord Jesus Christ, for the salvation of believers. He said:
We see and hear of many who speak much of His
sacrifice in the suffering of those who suffer again in power and glory with His Holy Angels, and to reject, neglect, or put little attention to the Ten Words delivered to Moses by God Himself, and proclaimed by them.
The demands and commands of Christ for discipleship are indeed severe: Forsale all for Me! And — a Christianity that tails to present and insist upon its members meeting the commands and demands to 'count Bare Basement Christianity.' One is be likened to a 'Bargain Basement Christianity.' One into the bargain basement to get something 'cleaner.'
The modernist cloak of Christianity is worn out that many are going about in near or total nakedness. Revelation 16:16 tells of the battle of Armenedgordon. In the verse just previous, the 15th, Christ says this warning:
"B绍来, I take as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth,
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