CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1984
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United Press International
Lance Burr, a Lawrence attorney, speaks on behalf of the Kansas Nuclear Awareness Network at the opening of hearings in Burlington on the licensing of the Wolf Creek generating station. Burr said yesterday that the plant was not needed.
Center assisting small Kansas firms in getting federal grants for research
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
The Energy Research Center at the University of Kansas is trying to help small businesses in the state obtain energy. The center's director said yesterday.
Shirley Domer, interim director of the center, said that because the most innovative research proposals and projects had been coming from small firms, federal agencies encourage businesses to work together on grants.
"Smaller businesses are unfamiliar with the practice of applying for federal grants, and University officials are often not familiar with how to get through the process." Domer said.
"OUR OFFICE IS WILLING to match companies with professors who will help write grant proposals and assist with research and development, but we will also match companies to research funding opportunities."
"Other Universities around the country have helped small businesses successfully. This is the first time KU will be involved in the procedure."
During the summer of 1983, Domer
began working on her idea to get the smaller Kansas businesses involved in the industry.
The rewards from helping the smaller companies are state-wide, she said. The small businesses have helped the University and the state in the past through donations and revenues, she said.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS prefer giving a development contract to a small company because it is a faster route toward production, Domer said.
In 1981 Congress passed a law requiring key federal agencies such as the departments of Energy, Agriculture, Defense, Interior and Transportation, to reserve part of their funds for business research projects, she said.
Bringing a new product or procedure from idea to market usually takes more than two years with a small business three years with a large one, she said
Kansas has lagged behind other states in getting government contracts for small businesses, Domer said. In 1982 no federal grant contracts from the departments of Education or Energy went to a small Kansas business.
settles, Virginia, Maryland and Ohio — places that received help from the local Universities," she said. "The smaller businesses are not getting the grants because they are not applying for them."
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED projects go through two phases, Domer said. The first is what she calls the proving phase, in which a company tries to show its capabilities and demonstrates the potential of its ideas.
The company can receive from
$35,000 to $50,000, she said.
If the first phase is successful, she said, the next step involves two or more years of research grants for which a company may receive up to $500,000.
In fiscal 1984 Gov. John Carlin received a report from the task force on the division of high technology that called for smaller businesses to work with Kansas universities to improve high technology research, Domer said.
The Energy Research Center has received several calls from businesses requesting help from the University, she said.
"The process of obtaining a grant is very lengthy," she said. "But at least it has started."
Wolf Creek plant is unwanted and costly, lawyer tells board
By United Press International
BURLINGTON — Nuclear power plants will bankrupt the nation, a protector yesterday told a federal panel that the nuclear plant would license the Wolf Creek nuclear power.
"Take this message back to your great white fathers in Washington," Lance Burr, a Lawrence attorney, told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. "We in the breadbasket of America don't want it. We don't need it. We don't want our rates to go up 100 percent."
Burr, speaking on behalf of the Kansas Nuclear Awareness Network, called the hearings ridiculous and said he would pay for the $2.67 billion plant near Burlington.
Burr ran for state attorney general in 1882 on a campaign of stopping the practice of slavery.
"THIS PROJECT IS making a let of us nervous," Burr said. "These plants will bankrupt the nation. That's what they are doing right now."
going on line.
In addition, Burr said that Kansas Gas and Electric Co., which will operate the plant, had no way to deal with the nuclear waste it would produce.
However, KGE spokesman Lyle Koerper said in an interview that Wolf Creek has a waste storage facility on site capable of holding the accumulation of spent energy for 20 years, he said.
Kooper also said the NRC had investigated charges of faulty construction at Wolf Creek and in every case the plant was given a clean bill of health or the necessary corrections were made.
THE BOARD OF HEARINGS began yesterday and are scheduled to continue more than three weeks. Wolf Creek, which originally was to go on line in 1982 at a cost of $783 million, is expected to be operational in spring 1985. KGE and Kansas City Power & Light Co., each own 47 percent of the plant, while Kansas Electric Power Cooperative owns 6 percent.
A Catholic priest told the three-member NRC panel there was a moral responsibility that emergency evacuation plans be adequate and reliable. The Rev. Tony Bloufuss, pastor of St. Joseph's Church in New York, and Holy Angels Catholic Church in Garnett, said the plans should be tested before the plant begins operation.
The Kansas Corporation Commission has said electric rates of customers of the three utilities could skyrocket 80 percent.
The only person to testify in favor of the plant was a consultant of Westinghouse.
Business school to get new computers
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter
Lessig and John Tollefson, dean of the school of business, to help equip the recently completed computer lab on the campus with 40 new computers within a year.
The microcomputers will replace the eight that the school bought two years ago, said Parker Lessig, the associate dean
The School of Business is buying 11 microcomputers to keep up with fast-changing computer technology, associate dean of business said yesterday.
were used by business school administrators and faculty.
Like the lab itself, the computers have to be purchased private funds, Lessig said. The 40 computers will cost around $108,000. That figure does not include maintenance and software expenses to keep the computers usable.
Tollefson said that the computers
Cara Zanotti, Omaha junior said, "Everyone thinks that computers are a learning crutch, but actually, they make it possible to learn more in a way that's not as easy. Still has to know how to get the information from the computer."
students are also pressuring faculty to give them assignments that can be
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