NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1983
Page 10
Firm predicts higher rates from several nuclear plants
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Many nuclear power plants under construction will produce electricity when they are completed at rates double or triple the price of OPEC oil, an energy consulting firm said yesterday.
The increasing costs of building new reactors are creating severe economic problems for about a dozen electric utility companies, a study by Cambridge Energy Research Associates of Massachusetts.
The report identifies several troubled projects, and predicts the probable cancellation of one of the best known — the $1.6 billion Zimmer plant near Cincinnati. If the project were cancelled, it “could have resulted in financial run” for Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co., the report said.
"American ratepayers and utility company shareholders and creditors have yet to learn — let alone pay them," the electricity "the report said."
Nuclear industry officials said they would withhold comment on the study until they reviewed it.
SOME REACTOR PROJECTS are
well-managed, the report noted, and the cheapest of them "will be competitive with gas- and oil-generated electricity at current
But using utility company figures, the report concluded that "the most expensive new plants could produce about 100 barrels equivalent to $100 a barrel of oil."
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' current benchmark price for oil is $29 a barrel.
The study on the economics of nuclear power was written by Professor Irving Bupp of Harvard University Business School and Charles Komanoff, a consultant on energy research at bridge energy Research Associates is a private firm specializing in energy market analysis.
The firm predicted that utilities involved in the most troubled receiver areas receive huge presses, ranging from 30 percent to as high as 80 percent.
RATE INCREASES OF that magnitude, the researchers said, will further worsen the financial health of some utilities by depressing their sales of electricity.
Woman inundated with offers after advertising for a child
By United Press International
CONCORD, Calif. An unemployed nurse who placed a newspaper advertisement for a child said yesterday that she would offer with offers from male telephone callers.
One call was from a man with a pregnant mistress and another was from the husband of a woman who had been pregnant. The couple, months pregnant, said Nancy Skaggs.
"Single mother desperately wants to adopt Caucasian infant. No money to give but a warm home and lots of love."
Skaggs, 37, the mother of three teen-age children, placed an ad in the Contra Costa Times that ran for five days before it was pulled when the newspaper discovered such advertising was illegal in California. The ad read:
She told the newspaper in an interview published yesterday that by the time the ad was halted, she had over a dozen offers, including four from different people who said that they were willing to give up children ranging in age from 5 months to 7 years.
Included in the calls were one marriage proposal and an offer by a man to help her get pregnant, Skaggs said.
"The interesting thing is all the calls have been from men," she said of the offers, which she cannot legally accept.
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Vulcanus I, one of two incineration ships for which the EPA proposes to issue permits, has reported occasional spills aboard the ship during its operations in the Gulf, the North Sea and the Pacific Ocean in the last decade. It was learned yesterday that in 1981, Dutch authorities withdrew a certificate of approval from the ship because of "leaking cargo tanks."
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WASHINGTON — Lawyers for environmentalists, shrimpers, farmworkers and the states of Texas and Louisiana said yesterday that they would file suit in an attempt to block federal permits allowing incineration of 80 million gallons of toxic wastes at sea.
THE AGENCY'S PLAN to allow high-temperature incineration of wastes far out in the Gulf of Mexico signals a controversial new turn in the government's program to assure safe disposal of hazardous wastes.
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"The Air Force seemed to feel if there was anybody left, they would be in Vietnam. So, we're instituting private help to try to try to search in Vietnam on the mainland and along the coast," he said.
Searchers have found one empty life boat from the vessel and located the Glomer Java Sea's drilling rig on the surface, where they found no signs of survivors or bodies.
HOUSTON — Hope was dimming that survivors from a drilling vessel that sank during a storm in the Pacific near Hawaii. The Marine Inc. spokesman said yesterday.
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He said the suit would be filed today in U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas, where the EPA in two weeks planned to hold public hearings on the proposed permits for ships owned by Chemical Waste Management Inc. of Oakbrook, Ill.
"The military has suspended their search, so what's left is a sea search using Chinese vessels," he said. "We also have eight private vessels in the area."
Divers have been at the scene of the well where the boat was drilling to determine whether any bodies went down with the ship. But the weather has hampered their efforts since they arrived Saturday.
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TOKYO — Demonstrators clash with riot police in front of the U.S. Embassy in protest against President Reagan's four-day visit to Japan. Yesterday's protest precedes Reagan's scheduled arrival on Nov. 9.
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