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University Daily Kansan, September 12, 1980
Stephan lists dump violations
About 38,000 pounds of arsenic waste product is trucked every year from a Lawrence chemical manufacturing plant to a dump site for hazardous wastes northwest of Wichita—a site Kansas Attorney General. Added to the inventory had been operating in violation of several state regulations.
Joel Jeacob, plant manager for the chemical company, FMC Corporation, said yesterday that FMC had chosen the Wichita site to dispose of its hazardous waste because it was recommended by the University and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
"It is considered a state-of-the-art dismal site." Jacobs said.
Jacobs said FMC took its supervisor and a technical supervisor to the Wichita site twice a year to inspect the waste disposal.
they are following guidelines," he said.
"They check records and make sure
they are following guidelines," he said. HOWEVER, STEPHAN, in n letter to the department of Health and Environment, said the department was lax in enforcing regulations designed to keep the Wichita site safe.
The 80-acre dump site is owned by the Kansas Industrial Environmental Services, a branch of National Environmental Services.
In his letter, Stephan said that state officials had failed to monitor air quality around the site, that state employees were not making necessary inspections, that Kansas Industrial Environment Department required reports on time and that Environmental Services was lax in enforcing security.
Stephan also said that the reports all industries must fill out concerning the material being dumped contained irregularities.
HOWDAY DUNCAN, chief of environmental sanitation of the Department of Health and Environment,
answered Stephan's charge Wednesday
by saying irregularities did exist but
they were because of the complex
nature of the regulations covering the
disposal of hazardous materials,
which are frequently, he said, it is difficult to keep reports up to date.
According to Jacobs, FMC ships its toxic waste to Wichita by truck. It is a by-product in the production of foodgrade phosphoric acid. The liquid waste contained in the drums is 1 percent arsenic, 35 percent filter-aid, which is a purification agent, and 64 percent water.
Jacobs said waste coming from FMC was stored in vaults at the Wichita site.
Jacobs said the arsenic solution coming from FMC was placed immediately in open pits, called drums, and would not be among the drums that Stephan had included as a problem at the site.
By JENNIFER LISTON Staff Reporter
Kansas emergency preparedness coordinators who examined the Wolf Creek generator have found the nuclear power plant's construction safe. Mike Leonard, Douglas County coordinator, said yesterday.
Wolf Creek passes construction test
The Wolf Creek plant is being constructed near Burlington, about 60 miles southwest of Lawrence.
Leonard and other county coordinators returned yesterday from Burlington after a three-day conference on emergency plans. The coordinators toured the Wolf Creek facilities Monday.
Leonard said he was satisfied with the construction of the plant and the thick concrete walls that will house the reactor.
"I think a 747 (airplane) could hit
it and bounce off." Leonard said.
"I don't believe there won't ever be a problem," Leonard said, "but the safeguards seem to have everything covered."
rine nuclear reactor should be producing electricity by 1984, utility officials said.
THE REACTOR is being built by Kansas City Power and Light Co., the Kansas Gas and Electric Co., and the Kansas Power Cooperative, Inc.
Some groups have been trying to stop the plant's construction, fearing an accident like the one that occurred last year at Three Mile Island. In the Three Mile Island did this happen as was released into the air over the surrounding Pennsylvania countryside.
Leonard said an accident at the plant would probably affect only a
tiny part of southern Douglas County. Some of the residents there might have to be evacuated, but it would be fine if the rest of the county, Leeward, said.
MANY PEOPLE objecting to the plant are concerned with storage of hazardous waste from the plant and shipping those wastes, Leonard said.
Radioactive fuel rods within the reactor will be changed about every 18 months, he said, and those rods will be sealed inside a vault and buried next to the reactor. Only articles with low levels of radiation—such as contaminated clothing used for inspections and mops used to clean up around the reactor—would be sent by truck to a dump in Connecticut. Those low levels of radiation are no higher than ordinary background radiation in any city, Leonard said.
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