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University Daily Kansan, September 17, 1984 Page 11
NATION AND WORLD
Japan plans to dump barrels of low-level waste in ocean
By United Press International
TOKYO - While Europe worries about a cargo of some 300 tons of uranium hexaflouride that sank off Belgium's coast, Japan is considering sinking about 1,000 times that much radioactive material in the western Pacific.
The plan to dump hundreds of thousands of barrels of low level radioactive waste at sea some 560 miles southeast of Tokyo and about half a mile southwest of the wealth of the Northern Mariana islands makes many people nervous.
At present, Japan's 27 nuclear power plants produce just more than 20 percent of the country's electric power needs. The Japanese hope to nearly double the number of plants — a move that would on atomic energy — by the year 2000.
THE REASON FOR the strategy is clear: Japan's precarious dependence on imported oil, which accounts
for 62 percent of its energy needs.
But the dangers also are clear. The nation's current stock of 520,000 drums of low level waste — disregarding for the moment a smaller quantity of high level waste — is built in size by the turn of the century.
"We have so far been intent on exploiting the merits of nuclear power," Arisawa said, "and from now on we will have to face up to its demerits — such as the treatment and disposal of waste.
Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Chairman Hiromi Arisawa expressed the fears of the nation's in an address in Tokyo last spring.
"To perfect an integrated (nuclear fuel) cycle which will also make for the disposal of high level waste is a task that must be solved by all means if national and international confidence is to be won."
uets that result from mopping the floor, laundering the clothes, filtering the air or changing parts in and out of a system of reactors = is chiefly one of volume.
"Our first object is to reduce the volume and put the waste into stable form for long term management," said Kanane Ikeda, a senior officer at the Science and Technology Agency's Atomic Energy Bureau.
"The new technology is to burn them to reduce volume before solidifying," Ikeda said. "Finally the liquid is used, either in the ocean or in the land."
BUT THE ISSUE has been complicated by vocal opposition from islanders and growing international concern over ocean dumping. Ikeda said.
He said he hoped groups opposed to the project would reconsider after a "hopefully favorable" multinational report on ocean dumping was released in September 1985.
Top students favor school prayer
By United Press International
And 63 percent of the honor students said they would vote for President Reagan. Twenty eight students backed Walter Mondale for president.
NEW YORK - A majority of top high school students favor school prayer and support a constitutional ban on abortion, a survey report showed yesterday.
The publishers of "Who's Who Among American High School Students" sent questionnaires to 5,000 of the 375,000 students listed in the
directory; 2,300 students filled out the questionnaires
Fifty-seven percent of the students said they supported a constitutional amendment either banning all abor-geration or allowing them except in specified circumstances.
The report is based on data collected in the survey. "15th Annual Survey of High Air Quality Views on Air Quality, Social Issues, Religion", last take spring
On drugs, 86 percent said they had never tried marijuana; 84 percent had not tried cocaine or other drugs. Three percent said they had never consumed enough alcohol to get drunk
Seventy-nine percent believe prayer should either be allowed or required in public schools. Half did not think prayer in public schools violates separation of church and
state.
Most opposed nuclear war and favored draft registration.
Other highlights from the report:
Other highlights from the report.
• Fifty-one percent said school was the major source of information about sex, birth control and VD.
• Fifty-eight percent believe the parents of unwed female males and pregnant females should be notified before abortions were performed.
Israel sets austerity measures
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Israel's new unity Cabinet, meeting for the first time and under pressure from Washington to curb inflation and a soaring foreign debt, announced yesterday a $1 billion budget cut and a 9 percent devaluation of the shkel
Yitzhak Modai, the new finance minister, said Prime Minister Shimon Peres would present an Israeli austerity plan to President Reagan during a trip to the United States in the next few weeks. The plan involves all ministries cutting their budgets.
The government, in an announcement on state-owned television, said it was devaluing the Israeli shekel immediately by 9 percent, a move aimed at preventing a run on the dollar by Israeli nervous over reports of an impending devaluation.
At the same time, the government announced that the price of gasoline would rise by 9 percent and food stuffs would increase soon.
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