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Thursday, October 25, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Three governors won't wait on Washington close their states to nuclear waste dumping
WASHINGTON (AP) — By deciding to stop or cut nuclear waste shipments into their states, three governors are signaling that they want to take the political heat for a national problem.
Nevada this week closed the second of the nation's only three low-level waste dumps.
A burial site in Washington state has been shut down for three weeks. Shipments to the only other site—in South Carolina—are expected to be curbed next week.
Spokesmen for the nuclear power industry said the problem was not immediate for hospitals and research facilities, but some officials said hospitals and research facilities would run on electricity.
Leonard Freeman, president of the American Institute for nuclear medicine, which is used thousands of times a day to diagnose and treat diseases, including cancer.
SOME HOSPITALS already have asked doctors to curtail the use of radioactive materials because of expected storage problems.
The sudden militancy by the governors of Washington, Nevada and South Carolina is an indication that the state is minimizing to play a stronger role in the disposal of low-grade waste, an issue which has been addressed.
Almost daily, trucks have brought wastes from commercial reactors, hospitals and research laboratories around the country to the only commercial burial sites available.
"I just tired of having to assume the responsibility for having our people take over the business," Gov. Robert List said, regulated. "Nevada Gov. Robert List said he was resisted attempts Tuesday to repouse him."
WHAT ALTO gnaws at the governors is that no dumps are in areas where most of the wastes are produced—including most of the Northeast.
On Oct. 4, Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission, closed the burial site near the facility and released lax enforcement of shipping regulations.
On Tuesday, after List's action, South Carolina Gov. Dick Riley made it clear he will not allow more waste to be diverted into
his state, where 80 percent of the nation's low-level radioactive garbage already is being buried. He predicted forced backacks in shimms next week.
The governors' specific complaints vary,
but their anger is aimed at the federal government. They argue that while plans for a national program languish, the three states still are climbing ground for the rest of the country.
Plan for waste disposal ignored, professor says
By TED LICKTEIG Staff Reporter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has developed a plan for disposing of radioactive nuclear waste in the nearby space. However, the plan has been largely ignored by Congress and the government, an airplane engineering, said yesterday.
Smith said nuclear waste could be shot into outer space via the space shuttle, which is being developed by NASA, as a project conceived by NASA in the early 1970s.
Congress has appropriated research and development grants for underground disposal, but has not allocated funds especially for the solar system escape method.
Smith explained, "It is sent out of our solar system by using the space shuttle and a tugger. It doesn't come back. And it only works for a short period of time, feasible and a reasonable option."
He said NASA had prepared a plan for the disposal method in 1973 and that the plan could be executed with existing technology.
HE SAID that after radioactive waste was loaded onto the space shuttle, it would orbit the earth. The tug, which would ride with the shuttle, would then blast into outer space and eventually disintegrate 150,000 light years from Earth.
Radioactive waste is now stored in underground storage areas that are
supposed to prevent radiation from escaping.
Smith said that was a problem because most people did not want nuclear waste stored near their town.
About 3 percent of the uranium used in a year at nuclear plants remains in storage. The rest must be stored permanently. The rest can be reprocessed or stored for several years, depending on its period of toxicity, until it is safe to use as fuel again, he said.
SMITH, A FORMER consultant to Boeing, Inc., said he became interested in disposal of nuclear waste in outer space about 10 years ago when he read articles about it. He found the plan so good that he wondered why others were not interested in it.
Smith said he had written several letters to congressmen, newspapers, fellow engineers and the National Academy of Medicine but had received few positive responses.
He said most of the responses he received recognized the solar system escape method as an alternative but dynamic about the possibility of its future use.
Bob Rives, vice president of systems services for Kansas Gas and Electric, co-owner of the plant, now under construction near Burlington, Kan., said the utility had not found a storage area for wastes from the plant. The facility will be opened before the plant opened in April, 1883.
ABOUT 60 PERCENT of the low-level wastes are byproducts of commercial power reactors, including sludge, resins and contaminated clothing. Most of the rest comes from research laboratories and medical treatment and diagnosis at hospital.
For more than a year the Carter aid interagency had to prepare recommendations that the Energy Department set up regional low-level nuclear waste dumpes to spread the
The recommendation—part of an overall report on nuclear wastes—has awaited President Carter's decision for several months. One problem, an administration investigation, found that many burial grounds are to spark opposition in the states for which they will be planned.
But, said Ogoert Oeltz, the Energy Department's director of waste products, "We have to work with the wastes pile up as they are at the three existing dump sites, a choice here."
Today 90 percent of the wastes, almost all generated in the East, ends up at the dump near Richland. The majority go to the site near Richland, Wash. The remaining 1 percent have been going to the landfill.
ROBERT BROWNING, deputy director of the Justice Department, regulatory Commission, said the inability to dispose of wastes poses a serious problem, but he could not say how soon it might be.
In late 1972 the NRC urged the Energy Department to prepare a contingency plan that would allow the 14 federal waste storage sites to be opened for general use because of what the NRC said was a clear indication of the corruption at the three commercial sites.
"They've been studying it ever since," said Browning.
Oertel said he expected the contingency plan to be ready by January, but conceded the movement of commercial wastes to any department might cause grounds might cause local problems as well.
There will be no acceptance of commercial waste at government sites "except in consultation with the governor of that state." Oertel said.
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Cooperative efforts by the Panhellenic Association, the Interfarmacy Council, the Circle K Club and the Association of University Residence Halls brought the 1979 accreditation from its qulao of 60 pts. Juniore Bunie, Panhellenic blood drive chairman, said vestibulary
A total of 447 pints of blood had been donated when the three day drive ended with a celebration. The 165 pints were donated on Monday, 258 on Tuesday and 258 yesterday. A daily quota of 200 pints has been set.
Students registered in advance to give blood but walk-on donors also were accepted. Birney said walk-on donors accept a large portion of the blood donated.
She said the idea of combining group efforts for the drive was new.
"We tried to reach every faction that we could," she said. "For our first year, everything outweighed well."
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Thursday, October 25
Cinema from India:
SIMABADDHA
Social criticism of modern life in India is presented in this sardonian film by Satyanay Ray, Bengalisubstites. a short film on the director will also be
(1972)
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October 26-27
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Directed by George A. Romero, about a man who is forced to extract blood by using a hypodermic. By the director who made NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and DAWF of his film.
Directed by Francis Truftau, Jean-Pierre Leaud. This film continues the adventures of Antoine and Marie, who is now married. Francisubtitles.
(1937)
YOUNG AND INNOCENT
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