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University Daily Kansar
Friday. Oct. 5. 1962
KU Nuclear Reactor May Hold Many Secrets of Better Living
A silent, blue glow deep within a 30-foot tank of water may hold the secrets to better living in Kansas.
The state dedicates its first nuclear reactor center Saturday at the University of Kansas. The glow will result when scientists turn on a sustained fission reaction in the center's nuclear reactor.
Dr. Harry Hanson, assistant surgeon general of the U.S., will be the main speaker at dedication ceremonies open to the public at 10 a.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall. Senator Frank Carlson and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe also will speak.
They will help dedicate a half million-dollar facility built with a combination of private and government financing. The center has a host of practical uses, including the training of future nuclear scientists, research into radiation safety, and improvement of the state's future water supply.
THE MODERN, white limestone building actually houses three units; the nuclear reactor, the department of radiation biophysics, and the Environmental Health Center. All three sections are interrelated, and
use nuclear science in their studies. The public is invited to tour the nuclear research center from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
The "star of the show," of course, will be the reactor itself. A silent, mysterious mechanism, it operates within the tank of command of University technicians licensed by the Atomic Energy Commission.
VISITORS WILL BE able to look into the tank and see the control rods and unit of enriched uranium 235 which activate the fission reaction.
The reactor is the "swimming pool" type, in which there is no danger of radiation. The water in the deep tank serves as a protective shield, as a reflector of neutrons emitted by the reaction, and a cooling agent for the reactor.
When operating, the 10-kilowatt reactor generates about one-third the heat of a household furnace.
Dr. Russell Mesler and Dr. Harold Rosson are in charge of the reactor's operations and the training of qualified technicians.
Actually, the reactor has been in operation since February. Many of its preliminary operations have been training exercises and tests of its performance.
Now that this work is virtually completed, the center is prepared to delve into cooperative research with other departments of the University and to continue technician training.
"THE REACTOR has two uses." Dr. Rosson said. "It's primarily a training instrument for nuclear engineering students. It's also a research tool used primarily for the production of neutrons and gamma radiation."
The reactor is also useful in providing isotopes of short half-life for use on the campus," Prof. William J. Argersinger, director of research administration said. "It would be impossible to bring isotopes here from Argon Laboratories (Chicago), Brookhaven (Long Island, New York), or Oak Ridge (Tennessee)."
Prof. Argersinger said the nuclear reactor is a necessary instrument for graduate study.
The University now offers an M.S degree in nuclear engineering.
A legislative appropriation of $269,852 was granted to construct the building, and a grant of $100,000 came from the Atomic Energy Commission to purchase the 10-kilowatt reactor from the Bendix Corporation. The U.S. Public Health Service provided $70,453 in a grant for environmental health facilities and equipment.
Peanuts Threat To Adjournment
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A House-Senate conference committee agreed today on a compromise $3.93 billion foreign aid money bill, but disputes over pensions and peanuts threatened hopes for adjournment of congress this weekend.
While the aid bill was regarded as one of the chief remaining obstacles to adjournment, a possible pocket veto by President Kennedy of a pension bill for the self-employed brought on a threat of delaying tactics by Sen. George A. Smathers, D.-Fla.
Smathers indicated he would try to keep congress in session past midnight next Wednesday in order to enact the pension bill if President Kennedy fails to sign it or announce a veto by tomorrow. The term pocket veto is used where the President refuses to sign a bill and it dies after congress goes home.
A dispute over an agriculture money bill also clouded adjournment plans.
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga, won Senate support for delaying action on a $5 billion "must" Agriculture Department money bill, in a continuing House-Senate wrangle over funds for farm research projects, including peanut research.
The House - Senate confeeres agreed on foreign aid appropriations totaling $825 million less than President Kennedy requested. The agreement came after a compromise was reached on aid to Communist countries and nations trading with Cuba.
The agreement would ban all military assistance or strategic aid to Iron Curtain countries but would allow the President economic assistance, such as food and medicine. The house bill would have blocked all aid while the Senate bill contained virtually no restrictions.
The cut in Kennedy's cash request for the aid program was the biggest in the 15-year history of the program. The $3.93 billion actually approved was about $300 million more than the House voted previously but $500 million less than the Senate authorization.
Rep. Otto Passman, D.-La., the leader of House aid slushers, said the compromise was "another great victory" for the taxpayers.
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Egypt Sending Troops By Liner to Yemen
ADEN — (UPI) — Egypt was reported moving troops toward embattled Yemen today to support that country's 9-day-old revolutionary regime against counterattack by tribesmen loyal to the royal family.
Informed sources in Cairo said the troop-loaded Egyptian liner Sudan sailed south from Suez Wednesday, under reported orders to lie off the Yemenite coast in readiness to supply any necessary aid to the rebels.
Unconfirmed reports said other Egyptian forces in the Red Sea area had been alerted for possible movement toward Yemen.
The Cairo government promised its support Wednesday to the military revolutionaries who apparently killed Yemen's Imam (King) Mohammed last month and seized
control of at least part of the country.
Imam Hassan, Mohammed's self-proclaimed successor, is in Saudi Arabia trying to organize a tribal uprising like those that defeated the Yemenite rebellions of 1948 and 1955. Saudi authorities have been reported flying arms to the border for use by the tribesmen.
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Official Bulletin
Teaching Interviews: in Montgomery County, Maryland (near Washington, D.C.) at Jim Early, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 8-12 a.m., Teacher Appointment Bureau, 117 Bailey.
International Students: The first People-to-People Industrial Tour of the Year will be on Saturday, Oct. 13. Interested students should sign up in the PTP office in the Kansas Union. The trip will be to Kansas City.
October 5,1962
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
TODAY
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
Inter-Varsity Christian Ministry Amstutz
"Authority of the Scriptures."
International Club, 7:30 p.m., Big. 8 Room, Kansas Union, Panel Discussion followed by a social hour, dancing and refreshments.
International students are invited to a joint Happy Hour and picnic at 5:00 p.m. at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 1301 West Campus Road.
TOMORROW
K.U. Soccer Team, 4:00 p.m. (punctual),
Game vs. St. Benedict's College
SUNDAY
French Ph.D. Reading Exam, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 11 Fraser.
International Students: Special tour of Watson Library, 1 p.m. Students should make an appointment to the Library. Tour will conclude in time for attending the Museum Art Open House.
Alpha Omicron Pi Hosts Tea
The members of Alpha Omicron Pi will hold a tea honoring members of the various '62 sorority pledge classes Sunday from 3-4:30 p.m., at the chapter house.
New Record in Sales
For the third consecutive season, Kansas has established a new record of season ticket sales. Official figures from athletic business manager Earl Falkenstien disclose the Jayhawker front office sold 13,780 season tickets for 1962. This exceeds by more than 1000, the former high of 12,667 established last season.
The 35,000 fans who witnessed the opener against Texas Christian here September 22 is the largest opening-day home crowd in Kansas history and the highest at either site for the 20-year Jayhawker-Horned Frog series.
Upwards of 30,000 are expected here Saturday for the Big Eight opener against Colorado. Both clubs carry records of 1-1-0.
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