University Daily Kansan, September 12, 1980 Page 11
Nuclear protesters reorganize, regroup
By KATHY MAAG Staff Reporter
Educating the public about possible dangers of the proposed nuclear waste depository at Lyons and alleged construction flaws at the Wolf Creek nuclear plant near Bursting is the subject of an ongoing group of Lawrence nuclear protesters.
About 25 people attended a meeting of the Sunflower Alliance last night at the Lawrence Public Library in an attempt to regroup after the failure of the Radioactive Free Kansas group last year.
Future protest plans include anti-nuclear lectures, information booths at KU events and letter writing to
senators and congressmen, Anne Moore, spokesman for the group, said.
SUNFLOWER ALLIANCE members voiced concern about the nuclear waste dumping experiment in Lyons. Moore explained that Lyons is the former site of the nuclear waste which felt the ground full of holes and unsuitable for nuclear waste dumping.
The Atomic Energy Commission decided in 1972 to abandon Lyons as a proposed high-level radiation dump site. However, a 1979 request by the Recano Corp. was approved for dumping of low-level radiation waste.
The protesters fear that the federal government is thinking again of using Lyons as a high-level radiation waste
site and plan to protest if any further federal action is taken.
"For a long period of time, there was no federal standard for dumping nuclear waste," Alan Nelson, Lawrence resident, said. "Federal agencies dump and their problems are popping up all over. Kansas does not want a waste dump."
Additional concern was raised about the nuclear plant under construction at Wolf Creek near the John Redmond Reservoir at Burlington. The plant is being constructed but not forgotten just because Three Mile Mount, Pat Slack, Lawrence resident, said.
"Wolf Creek is the laughingstock of the utility companies because of the poor quality construction," Slick said. "The construction flaws we have heard
about are nothing compared to what actually exists. I suggest everyone get the heck out of Lawrence if Wolf Creek ever goes on line, because it has been one of the most poorly constructed plant plants in the United States."
THE CONSTRUCTION at Wolf Creek is expected to be completed in 1883 or 1894. Sunflower Alliance members hold a silent vigil every Sunday from noon to 10 p.m. in South Park as a protest against Wolf Creek and nuclear weapons.
"I think the people of the state of Kansas are ready for another non-accident," said an accident, then people will act."
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Grassroots America and midwifery in today's world are two of the topics that will be presented Monday and Tuesday nights in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union in a program sponsored by KU-Y.
Tona Hoffman, a documentary film maker from Berkeley, Calif., will show taped presentations with discussions afterward.
Monday night's session is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and will feature midwifery, a birthing technique still used today.
Hoffman will show a documentary on experimental television from the '60s to the '80s at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Hoffman became interested in the practice of midwifery and made a series of videotapes for some of the women had children delivered by a midwife.
This presentation will feature events in grassroots America that the major media have failed to cover, she said.
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