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University Daily Kansam
Second Section
Monday, Aug. 26, 1985
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Lawrence firefighters responded to a report of smoke coming from the Nuclear Reactor Center on Wednesday, which came from a fault in a cable at the Kansas Power & Light Co. Gas Service substation adjacent to the reactor. The fault caused a temporary blackout to much of the campus.
Substation failure causes power loss
By Kansan reporters
The smoke rising above the Nuclear Reactor Center on Wednesday afternoon was not another Three Mile Island nor did it have anything to do with the nuclear reactor.
T. A. Mindrup, district manager for Kansas Power & Light Co. Gas Service, said a cable at a KP&L Gas Service substation adjacent to the reactor center was responsible for the smoke and a loss of electrical power for about 1,000 customers at about 4:30 p.m.
Residence halls, Jayhawker Towers, Stouffer Place, and residential customers on 18th Street and Crestline and Engel roads and the west side of campus were without power for about 30 minutes.
Bob Porter, associate director of facilities operations, said an incoming wire to the substation switching gear apparently faulted and caught fire, but the exact reason for the fire was not known.
Gregg Claycamp, assistant scientist at the nuclear reactor, said the 20 students, technicians and faculty members in the building noticed the heat immediately. Some were programming computers and lost their programs.
Claycamp said the Lawrence Fire Department arrived prepared for a reactor emergency. The fire department periodically conducts drills with workers at the nuclear reactor center in case of an emergency.
"None of that was needed," he said. "They didn't even use a fire extinguisher."
The substation is not near the reactor fuel, which is kept in the reactor bay in the south part of the building, and there was no cause for alarm concerning the reactor fuel, Claycamp said.
The reactor contains five pounds of nuclear fuel, which generates about 250 kilowatts of energy. He said that the energy was pure energy, not electrical energy.
"But it would be nice if there was electrical energy. It would have been helpful Wednesday," Claycamp said.
The power outage also caused problems for people in residence halls.
Greg Kaul, South Pasadena, Calif., junior, and the desk assistant on duty at Ellsworth Hall at the time of the power outage, said elevators were stopped, causing problems for students moving into the hall. One resident had to carry everything up several flights of stairs and two handicapped residents could not get to dinner because the elevators did not work.
Faculty dinner also was interrupted, Kaul said.
"We thought, 'I guess we're going to have cold spaghetti,'" he said.
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