University Daily Kansan, March 18, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Fuel loaded at Wolf Creek
By United Press International
BURLINGTON — The loading of 110 tons of nuclear fuel at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant was completed yesterday, one day after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave the plant a low-power testing license.
The loading process began at noon Tuesday and was completed by 6:30 a.m. yesterday, said Lake Koepler, spokesman for Kansas Gas & Electric Co. of Wichita, the utility company, to operate the southeast Kansas plant.
The loading process was completed $ 2^{1 / 2} $days ahead of schedule.
"The procedures just went smoothly." Koerper said in a telephone interview from Wichita. "We
were very pleased with the way the whole process went."
KG&E and Kansas City Power and Light Co. in Missouri each own 47 percent of the nuclear plant. The remaining 6 percent is owned by Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc.
Crews filled the plant's 193 fuel assemblies with nuclear fuel. Each fuel assembly is about 14 feet long and $8\frac{1}{2}$ inches square, Koerper said. The 110 tons of nuclear fuel will stretch more than 600 miles with 65,000 railroad cars filled with coal, be said.
Utility inspectors reviewed the placement of fuel assemblies in the reactor to verify proper location of loading the loading process, Koerper said.
For the next two weeks, Wolf Creek crews will be involved in placing a head on the nuclear reactor and connecting all instruments and vents.
The plant is expected to begin operating commercially in about six months, he said.
The nuclear reactor's fuel core won't produce electricity for another three months, Koerper said. K&E will see a full-power license to begin commercial operation once the plant's electrical output reaches 5 percent of its capacity, he said.
The latest estimate placed Wolf Creek's cost at $2.9 billion. When plant construction began eight years ago, the cost of Wolf Creek was estimated at $1.1 billion.
Regents consider tuition increase
Students would have to pay an extra 5 percent or more in tuition fees at the University of Kansas and other Board of Regents schools, if a recommendation made Thursday by a special Regents - committee is approved by the full board.
The committee discussed the recommendation during the Regents monthly meeting on Thursday and Friday* The Fiscal Affairs Commit-
tree will consider the increase next month. In May, the full board will discuss it, and, if approved, the tuition increase would take effect for the 1986 fall semester.
Tuition for in-state undergraduate students attending KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University would increase by 5.1 percent, from $495 this fall to $520 in the fall semester 1986. This figure doesn't
include the student activity fee or other special fees.
Tuition for graduate students and out-of-state students also would be required.
At the University of Kansas Medical Center, tuition would increase by 7.3 percent, from $2,610 this fall to $2,800 in fall 1986 for in-state students. For out-of-state students, tuition would increase from $5,220 to $5,600.
Shots and pain are two reasons people avoid the hospital, but some avoid it because they are embarrassed to consult doctors.
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
A new student health education program dealing with health problems and treatments could help alleviate embarrassment. Student Senate will decide this fall whether to add the program, Jef Gleason, student chairman of the student health advisory board, said recently.
Lynn Heller, coordinator of health education at Watkins Hospital, said. "A lot of students will stay away from talks on alcohol and sexually transmitted diseases, and they can talk to talk to friends about health.
"The goal of the program is to promote health education among students and get them interested in health."
Health program may start in fall
GREY ENDRES, secretary of the advisory board, said the program, which would be free to students, would be started in fraternities and sororities and would be offered to other living groups. The advisory board consists of student representatives and Watkins officials
Letters explaining the program have been sent to fraternities and sororites by the advisory board
who advise the Senate on student health issues.
The health program is designed to inform students about health by using student representatives to provide living groups with health pamphlets, arrange for health speakers and inform living groups about services offered by Watkins Hospital.
Staff Reporter
Gleason said the program would cost $800 for paperwork and printing. Student representatives will not receive pay for their work.
"IF STUDENT SENATE doesn't approve the money, we will solicit money from outside sources," he said. "The program will be delayed if the money can't be collected."
A newly formed committee connected with the program will take applications for one student representative, called a health officer, from each fraternity and sorority until April 12.
The committee is searching for students with genuine interest in health and helping people. Endres said.
attend training sessions in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and basic first aid a week before classes begin in the fall. They would be expected to compose a flier once a month on a health subject that might be important to their living groups.
"We don't want anyone who just wants to pad their resume," he said.
THEY ALSO WOULD be expected to distribute health literature to their living groups, provide information about services at Watkins Hospital and set up lectures by health professionals.
If chosen, the students would
Heller said, "The type of programs would depend on student interest. For example, the officer told a dietitian talk about apocrine."
Sororites and fraternities are the logical places to start the health education program, Endres said.
"Scholarship halls and residence halls already have some kind of health education program," he said. "We've never had very good communication between the staff and students in service, but we hope that this will motivate them to get involved in health education."
Endres said the controlled government and smaller living area had created paternities and sororities wereducative to starting the program.
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