University Daily Kansan, February 10, 1984
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the right equipment were used, a bomb could be made with less than 11 kilograms.
Gallinsky said. "The important thing isn't just a person, the person may steal part at one campus and part at another."
Having the uranium on university campuses poses a threat to everyone, he said, and converting to a lesser grade is the only sensible thing to do.
"It's part of a world-wide effort to shift to safer material." Skvalski said.
Mesler said that use of KU's reactor, which went into operation in 1961, had declined gradually as other analytical techniques and sources, such as gamma rays, were developed.
KU's reactor plays host to visiting high-school students and is used by some radiation hospital classes, totalling two to three hours of use each week. He said the reactor is not used for research.
In the 23 years that KU's reactor has been in operation, Messer said, its security has never been.
Only in 1970, when the Kansas Union was burned as a result of student unrest, and a curfew was imposed, did Mesler spend the night at the reactor site.
He said stealing the uranium would be difficult.
"It's radioactive," he said. "You couldn't pick it up and put it under your arm and carry it out of her."
"The conditions under which we store the uranium meet the requirements of the NRC," he
Although he could not specify what precautionary measures are taken, he said that KU's reactor was secure.
John Zimbrick, chairman of the department of radiation biophysics, said it was unrealistic to think someone could steal uranium.
"There is such a paranoida, so many misconceptions about what you can do with uranium
Zimbrick said the government might have other, more "unfortunate" reasons for wanting to get the uranium off university campuses. He said he wanted to want to use the uranium for military purposes.
"I'd just as soon see it here" he said.
"I just aq as soon see it here," he said. Some KU officials say that converting to the lower-grade fuel would be too expensive. And although the engine is not used much anymore
To keep the reactor running for a year costs between $10,000 and $20,000, Mesler said. Most of the cost is for Mesler's salary and for the salary of the operator, Hobart O. Woody.
Mesler said that he had told the NRC that converting was technically feasible.
But, he said, "We don't have the money to change."
He estimated that converting, which would
If the NRC decides to require universities to convert, "What we might do is ship the fuel back and tell them not to replace it — at their expense," he said.
include replacing the life-time core, would cost $100,000.
Robert Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, said that the possibility of closing the reactor existed but that "it's much cheaper to keep it running."
Closing the reactor, he said, might cost $750,000 and take three four years to complete the plant.
Bearse said that to close the reactor, the uranium would have to be shipped out at great expense, the reactor would have to be cooled for six months, concrete would have to be chipped away and buried and measurements would need to be taken, among other things.
He said he wouldn't want to help the Kansas Legislature for money to convert to the lower-grade fuel because the nuclear reactor wasn't used enough. And given KU's tight financial situation, closing the reactor soon is unlikely.
"I have no moral objection to having a nuclear reactor on campus," he said, adding that converting or closing the reactor might not be worth the expense.
Donald R. Harris, director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., headed a study group that explored the implications of universities converting to the lower-grade fuel.
Winter said the Regents requests, which would restore 44 percent of the cut, were reasonable and responsible. The restoration would only be possible if it had identified as critically needing help.
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The Regents needed positive reinforcement for working with the large cut and for determining where funds were most needed, he said.
"I CAN'T BE considered a Christmas wish list," Winter said.
Winter called the governor's recommendations "phony budgeting." Although the governor's percentage salary increases for classified, unclassified and student employees looked good, on paper, he said, the recommendations included a base budget cut of $2.7 million.
Stanley Koplik, executive director for the Regents, explained that the governor's percentage increase in salaries would be good news for the state, but that it would come at the expense of others.
"IT'S LIKE GETTING A gift through the mail with postage date." Winter said.
The $2.7 million base budget cut would represent the elimination of 66 positions in the Regents system, Koplik said. Nineteen positions would be lost at KU.
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Compared to appropriations to secondary schools and community colleges, Winter said, the governor's recommendations for general appropriations to the Regents schools were inadequate.
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Carlin's budget recommends a 6 percent increase for unclassified employees and a 5 percent plus $204 increase for classified employees, he said.
Richard Cole, KU professor of philosophy, said that the quality of education at the University is not good.
"I think it's a very bad mistake to cannibalize positions for raises," he said.
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Carlin's proposal. Part-time employees hold a fraction of a position according to the number of hours worked each week.
NITCHER SAID 9.9 classified positions and 9.1 unclassified positions would be eliminated under
Classified employees are civil service workers.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that the budget cuts for each of the nine KU schools, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and health services administration would be proportional to the size of their present budget.
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White House officials also did not disclose whether President Reagan had been awaken and told of the reports of Mr. Andropov's death.
Late yesterday, Igor Andropov, Mr. Andropov's son and a senior delegate at the European Security conference in Stockholm, Sweden had left suddenly when he and gave no reason for his sudden departure, a Western delegate said.
The younger Andropov left for Moscow before the end of Tuesday morning's plenary session at which he accused the U.S. and its allies of making
deliberate plans for war, the delegates said.
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No Soviet leader since Vladimir Lenin had consolidated so much power when he left the country.
MR. ANDROPOV MOVED with unprecedented speed to fill the void left by the death of President Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982.
It took him eight months — after a lifetime of mastering the Communist
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No Soviet leader since Vladimir Lenin had consolidated so much power within such a short time as Mr. Andropov.
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For Mr. Andropov, victory was enough without also rubbing his opponent's face in the mud — which in the Soviet Union could mean forced retirement or, in the old days, exile or death. Instead, at each step, he permitted the Brezhnev ally to stay on the Politburo team.
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