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University Daily Kansan, February 7.1983
Reactor shutdown cost a concern,prof says
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
In the future, utility companies will need to be concerned with the cost of removing the radioactive parts of a nuclear power plant's reactor, a KU professor said yesterday.
gordon Wiseman, associate chairman of the physics and astronomy department, said that disarming a reactor would be a large cost that would be passed on to rate payers, although the amount paid by individual rate payers would be small.
A Wolf Creek Power Plant opponent in the Kansas Legislature Thursday introduced a bill that would create a committee to study safe methods for disposing of the plant's radioactive building parts.
STATE REP. KEN GROTEWIEL,
D-Wichita, is prepared Kansas should
be prepared for the financial burdens
that would arise when the nuclear
power plant near Burlington closed
The $2.4 billion power plant is expected to begin operation in the spring of 1985.
The nuclear power plant could generate energy from 40 to 100 years, he said, but would eventually become uneconomical to operate because radioactivity is a natural hazard or vessel so the it would not produce electricity.
"Ive opposed Wolf Creek for a long time, and I still do." Grotewl said. "But if you're going to have it, maybe I should ought to have some safeguards."
to have some emergency He said also that the commission would establish an emergency plan in case of a nuclear accident.
Wiseman said Grotewelw's estimation of the life expectancy of a nuclear power plant was reasonable.
HE SAID PARTS inside the power plant's nuclear reactor would become brittle and weak after 30 to 40 years, and would no longer be able to produce energy.
The cost of breaking down a power plant's reactor is estimated by the Boston Electrical Institute at 4 to 10 percent of the plant's original cost.
Grotewiel said that a nine-member study group would determine whether utility companies involved with Wolf Creek were adequately preparing for the plant's eventual shutdown.
I think it's money well spent. I hate to go into the future hoping something has provided for a shutdown," he said.
eVentureShares report that if the committee reported that the utilities would not be prepared to pay for a safe shutdown, Grotewiel said, then rate payers might end up paying extra money for it.
Lance Burr, a Lawrence resident who ran for state attorney general last August to voice his opposition to Wolf Creek, said he was pleased that the judge had not hurried but he said he would rather see a bail to the plant's construction.
"IT REALLY DETRACTS from the main issue," he said. "The plant is still going to be producing nuclear waste."
And he said that disposal of nuclear waste would cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
milions of dollars.
Burr said he and 10 other people concerned with the nuclear plant met Thursday to discuss a plan that would pressure the Legislature to stop construction.
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By ANDREW HARTLEY
Staff Reporter
Local observers of the federal judicial system yesterday reacted with little surprise to Chief Justice Warren Burger's call for a new appeals court level to tackle some of the Supreme Court's legal overload.
Burger, arguing that the quality of American justice was at stake, recommended setting up a temporary panel of judges to settle conflicting rulings and prevent circuit courts of justice and perhaps some disputes over federal statutes.
The chief justice's comments were part of a State of the Judiciary address at the American Bar Association's annual mid-winter meeting in New York.
a solution that will maintain the historic posture of the Supreme Court, will ensure ' proper time for reflection', preserve the traditional quality of the system and avoid a breakdown of the system — or of some of the justices. Burger said.
"ANY FUNDAMENTAL changes in structure and jurisdiction will provide
Francis Heller, a KU professor of law who has observed the Supreme Court for 40 years, said Burger's announcement did not surprise him because the chief justice had been advocating similar changes for several years.
Pete Rewland, assistant professor of political science who teaches constitutional law, said the announcement did not surprise him because Burger was more conscious of administrative problems confronting the federal courts than some of his predecessors were.
Trial date set in murder case
Although the observers interviewed last night were not surprised, they did
District Court Judge Mike Malone Friday set April 11 as the trial date for a Lawrence man who is accused of first-degree murder in connection with the December death of a 2-year-old Lawrence boy.
Stanley W. Chavez, 2309 Vermont St., has been charged with murdering Pratt White, the son of Sabrina White, 2440 W. 24th St. Terrace.
The boy died early Dec. 9.
Witnesses at Chavez's preliminary hearing this month said that the boy appeared to have been beaten on the head, buttocks and face.
CHAVEZ'S ATTORNEY asked that a charge of possession of a handgun by a convicted felon be separated from the
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Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, said that attorneys often asked for such a separation because it would be more likely that the defendant was a convicted felon.
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HELLER SAID that another level could prolong the time taken for the Supreme Court to hear the important cases. He also said that people would still seek a ruling from the Supreme Court, even if the last possible avenue for justice.
"The problem is that in the end, there has to be some one court that says what happened."
Robert Casad, professor of law, said that although he had not heard the specifics of Burger's announcement, he was skeptical about establishing the court on an experimental five-year period.
its members would be rotating panels drawn from 26 judges, perhaps selected by Burger, who now is a judge of the Supreme Court to serve on other specialized courts.
Under Burger's proposal, the new court would be created for five years and attached to an existing federal court. Other specialized federal courts, including bankruptcy courts, have been created by Congress.
CASAD SAID THAT judges filling the 26 seats would leave voids in their present jurisdictions, and interim
judges could not be appointed because federal indies serve lifetime terms.
He did, however, say that the new level of appeals court might free the justices to hear the most important constitutional questions.
John Macauley, professor of history and a Supreme Court observer, said he thought there was a valid need for the new level of court. He said that the flood of cases getting to the Supreme Court made it difficult for the justices to prepare each case and make a concrete constitutional rule of law.
Burger said he thought the "tidal wave" of cases coming to the court — more than 4,000 last term — would continue to grow to as many as 9,000 a year.
information for this story was also supplied by United Press International.
HE SAID SUCH an intermediate court could pare the high court's caseload by at least 30 cases a year, about 20 percent of the number he justices formally consider The Supreme Court to oversee in which different appeals courts have rendered contradictory rulings.
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