University Daily Kansan, January 30, 1985
Page 7
CAMPUS AND AREA
Wolf Creek to get low-power license
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Kansas' fivemember House delegation has been assured that no hazard to public safety will result from nuclear fuel and low-power testing at the $2.9 billion Wolf Creek nuclear power plant near Burlington.
After a one-hour meeting yesterday with the house delegation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would issue a low-power testing license to the plant despite six ongoing investigations because the safety of the plant would not be jeopardized.
NRC officials said the low-power license probably would be issued in early February, and a full-power license would follow about three
months later. Each day of delay in putting the eastern Kansas plant on line costs consumers $1 million.
THE KANSAS HOUSE members said the NRC has just begun to look at a recent report of falsification of inspection records and is continuing inquiries into reports of falsification of personnel documents, falsification of welding records, missing welding records and alleged harassment of two employees of Kansas Gas & Electric Co. in Wichita.
"What we are in the thros of are the typical proliferation of allegation s just prior to the licensing of a plant," said Rep. Bob Whittaker, a Republican from Augusta. "In the Diablo plant in California there were 1,600 issues raised — we have only six
"Every day of delay costs us, the
Kansas citizens, $1 million, "he said.
"If there are any true safety issues,
I'm not sure anybody wouldn't lay
these to rest."
"THE CLEAR IMPRESSION we got today is that they would not be approving even a low-level license if they felt the investigations jeopardized safety," said Rep. Dian Glickman of Wichita. "They said they would go ahead and make a decision on full licensing if the safety office says there is no quality assurance problem."
"There's no question of safety," said Rep. Jan Meyers, a Republican from the Kansas City area. "There is nothing to prevent a low-power license while they continue their investigations."
Glickman said he had invited other House members to attend the closed
briefing after the NRC mentioned ongoing investigations in a letter of response to Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., and head of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
DINGELL HAD asked NRC Chairman Nunzio Palladino to explain what actions are under way to determine whether a quality assurance breakdown in the welding program might extend to other facets of design and construction.
The NRC has proposed fining KG&E, which is the operator of the plant and 47 percent owner, $75,000 because of problems with the welding records. The NRC said sufficient reinspections and repairs had taken place to assure proper installation of structural steel welds.
Seminar to focus on Wolf Creek legislation
A seminar on the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, sponsored by the Kansas Law Review, will be conducted at 9 a.m. Saturday in 510 Green Hail.
Commission representatives, professors and students, said Lee Lauridsen, third-year law student.
State Rep. Bob Vancrum,
R-Overland Park, and State Sen.
Wint Winder Jr., R-Lawrence, will
discuss the Rate Shock Bill passed by
the 1984 Legislature. The bill,
corsoped by Winter and Vancrum,
would not allow Creek officials to
pass certain costs from the new
power plant on to consumers and
businesses and would require any
Legislation concerning Wolf Creek, specifically that which affects the electricity rates of consumers and businesses, will be discussed by state legislators. Kansas Corporation
increased costs to be spread over time, Lauridsen said.
THE CONCERN IS that electricity bills suddenly will increase by large amounts when the plant has to cover its costs after it starts producing electricity, Lauridsen said.
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
He said those at the seminar will also discuss whether costs incurred by the plant for bad business should be passed on to consumers.
ogy and civil engineering, will speak on the environmental issues surrounding the building of Wolf Creek.
Computer crime bill would classify thefts
Mark White, third-year law student, and Mike Martin, a member of the KU Sierra Club, will speak on the environmental impacts of the plant, such as nuclear waste.
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
No representatives from the Kansas City Power and Light Co. or Kansas Gas and Electric, the two utilities who own most of the plant, will be present.
Ernest Angino. professor of geol-
The Communication, Computers and Technology Committee met with representatives from several Kansas corporations that were in favor of making computer crimes or thefts of less than $100 a misdemeanor and of more than $100 a felony.
TOPEKA - Support for a bill that would give a more specific definition of computer crimes was heard by a Kansas House of Representatives committee yesterday.
Ellis Ingle, representing Boeing Computer Services Company, a large privately owned telecommunications network in Wichita, spoke to the committee in support of the bill. The company provides computers for the Boeing Military Airplane Company.
said. "When proprietary data is tampered with or stolen, its value has decreased."
"WE FEEL PROPER legislation is needed to get offenders on the streets and allow a company to recoup some of its losses." Ingle
Ingle said his company processed classified and unclassified military data and other information that was considered vital to the company's commercial success. Computer theft poses a serious threat to the secrecy of the company's data, he said.
Other companies voicing support for the bill were: Yellow Freight System, Koch Industries, Capitol Federal Savings & Loan, Control Data, Santa Fe Railway, Beech Aircraft, Pizza Hut, Wichita State University, Schlumberger Oil, Kansas Bankers Association and the Kansas League of Savings Institute.
The companies who appeared at the hearing yesterday wrote the bill, which Ingle said was a composite of similar bills passed in other states. The bill was passed in the House last year, but the session ended before the bill could reach the Senate for a vote.
Committee Chairman Jayne Anne Aylard, W-Ralina, said the legislation would probably be voted on in the House next week.
Ingle said his company and others like it were depending more each day on computers to store business information. Before long, he said, all information would be placed on computers, making computer legislation essential.
Ingle said Kansas was one of the few states left in the Midwest that did not have a specific legal description of computer crimes or theft.
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AN INDUSTRIAL GENERATOR,
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block of East 19th Street between
11:30 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 a.m.
Monday, police said.
A CAR STEREO, valued at $350, was stolen from a car parked in the 1200 block of Prairie Avenue somewhere Saturday and Monday, police said.
A STEREO, VALUED at $120, was stolen after an attempt to break at a safe at Hillcrest Theatre, 925 Iowa St., between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. Monday, police said.
A STEREO AND a pair of cuff links, together valued at $256, were stolen from a car parked in the 1500 block of West 24th Street between midnight Sunday and 9:40 a.m. Monday, police said.
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