University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 2, 1987
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Police report thefts of plants are increasing
The number of plant-nappings in the city has increased since the return of KU students, according to Lawrence police.
A fig tree, a palm tree and other plants valued at $250 were taken Sunday from the front porch of a house. Police officers on Street Lawrence police reported
On Monday afternoon, two men took a 3-foot-high green and yellow plant and its bamboo wicker pot from a counter at The Country's Best Yogurt, 711 W. 23rd St., Lawrence police reported.
Officer Eric Johnson said, "There is usually an increase in the number of plants stolen from businesses, hotels and homes when the students come back to KU."
Le Cercle Francais will have meeting
Le Cerule Francais will have its first meeting of the year at 3:30 p.m. today in Parlor A at the Kansas Union.
Mary Johnson, French instructor, said the meeting would be for any student interested in the year's activities will be discussed.
The meeting will include information about the club's first wine and cheese party, which will welcome new students from France to the University of Kansas. The party will be at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at 2032 Massachusetts St., the home of Johnson and her husband, Ted Johnson, professor of French and Italian, Cost is $3, but new students from France will be admitted free of charge, she said.
Watson scheduled to address forum
Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager and president of the International City Management Association, will address the weekly luncheon forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., at 11:40 a.m. today.
Watson, who has been city manager since 1970, will speak on "Lawrence and the Future."
All-sports tickets can be picked up
KU students have until Oct.1 to pick up their all-sports tickets.
Students can pick up the tickets from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the lobby of Allen Field House. Only students with last names beginning with L-R may pick up their tickets from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the lobby of Allen Field House. Only students with last names beginning with S-Z may pick up their tickets tomorrow.
Students picking up tickets must present a KUID.
Corrections
Because of a copy editor's error, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan. was incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansas. Kassebaum is a U.S. senator.
Because of a reporter's error, Charles Bryan's name was misspelled in yesterday's Kansan. Bryan is director of the Student Senate transportation board.
Kansas' super collider plans submitted
From staff and wire reports.
By MARK TILFORD
Staff writer
It absolutely, positively had to be there by 2 p.m. today.
Since it got to Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon and beat the deadline, Kansas is now in the running for the state's top major scientific and economic boon.
It is an eight-volume, spiral-bound proposal to have Kansas become the site of the nation's proposed Super-conducting Super Collider, a $2.8 billion project that would be the largest in the world and would cost $4.4 billion.
"It was delivered yesterday afternoon at the Department of Energy," said Terry Smith, of the Kansas Department of Commerce.
And, according to Smith and others who worked on the proposal, Kansas met or exceeded all Department of Energy requirements on its plan.
The department will now turn all states' proposals over to a review board made up of members of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
"We squarely answered every question the D.O.E. asked," Smith said. "I don't see how it is they will throw us out."
A best-qualified list of the top five or six sites should be available by the end of December. Smith said.
The official announcement of the
state chosen for the site is expected in January 1989.
Kansas has spent about $250,000 on the project, said Frank Wilson, senior scientist at the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas.
That is small compared to Illinois, which has spent $4.5 million, and California, which has spent $4 million. Illinois and Texas are considered the front-runners to receive the site.
Kansas spent less because Gov.
Mike Hayden decided to use state research groups, including the Geological Survey, the Kansas Biological Survey at KU and the Kansas State University College of Architecture and Design.
Kansas' eight volumes have purple
covers highlighted by shiny copper-
ing and the explosion called
"Explosion of Creation."
But creation would not be the only explosive growth the selected state will see.
Wilson said the accelerator and adjacent 6,000-acre research campus could be visited by as many as 500 international physicists at one time.
The economic boon would include 4,500 temporary jobs during construction and 3,000 high-salaried skilled jobs after completion, with a $250 million annual federal payroll, said Wilson.
John Ralston, KU assistant professor of physics and astronomy, compared the importance of the super collider to physics with the importance of the electron microscope to biology.
"The super collider has one purpose, which is basic research to find new ways of building materials."
The super collider would have 20 largest accelerator in the world today.
It would consist of a buried tunnel, 52.8 miles in circumference. Under Kansas' proposal, it would be buried at an average depth of 200 feet.
Disaster response ability tested
Two narrow particle beam pipes, one on top of the other, would be inside the oval-shaped tunnel, which would be 10 feet in diameter.
Some 10,000 magnets would be strung along the pipes.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to give Wolf Creek a checkup today
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
BURLINGTON — No radiation is spilling from the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant today — but officials are testing for a disaster anyway.
The plant, just north of Burlington, is scheduled to be tested today by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Administration on its ability to respond to a nuclear accident. Controllers are programming problems into the plant's computer, and the staff must follow emergency procedures to the letter.
"The overall purpose of the plan is to assure public health and safety," he said. "The supervisor at the plant, said yesterday, 'Everything that is done goes"
back to that one purpose."
About 300 people are involved in the scenario, which took eight full-time and many part-time Wolf Creek employees six months to plan. The test is scheduled to start early this morning and last all day. Federal evaluators will look on as employees of Wolf Creek, Coffey County and the state work together to solve the problems and relay information to the media.
The test includes more than Wolf Creek, though, just as a real nuclear accident would involve people and places beyond the plant's borders. Officials will evacuate two area schools to buses. They also will evaluate an area reception center on its ability to receive evacuees and check them for radiation exposure,
said Kevin Moles, manager of emergency planning at Wolf Creek
In Topeka, officials will hold a simulated news conference at the Nickell Memorial Armory. Smith said that during a disaster, the media would play an important role.
"They are the main source of injury and death after an accident," he said.
Plant officials will evaluate participants at a public meeting at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Coffee County courthouse basement. Then in several months, plant officials will receive an evaluation from both the nuclear commission which critiques the federal emergency administration, which critiques off-site responses such as those of the state
During the last test, Smith said, "We did a good job with it. We demonstrated an ability to protect public health and safety."
and county.
Moles said that some of the federal government's criticisms the last time, such as a need for stickers with different numbers, were nicky. But that is good, he said.
"After you do something for four or five years, you get pretty good at it," he said. "So now they look at the fine points — how to make it even better."
The procedures are rigid, Smith said. "There's no room for devia-
Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant operators run through training exercises in the simulated control room. Testing of emergency procedures takes place today.
Scott Carpenter/KANSAN
The NRC designated levels of emergency, each with its own criteria and response, to be followed by the entire industry. The first level, called unusual event, is minor. At this level a radioactive leak isn't likely. Wolf Creek has had four operations since the last operation on Sept. 7, 1985. Smith said examples of an unusual accident were a fire or a trespasser on the grounds. Wolf Creek has never had a more serious accident.
Smith said he thought past tests had helped calm public fears about the plant's safety. He said that now people accept nuclear power.
"There have been so many changes since Three Mile Island — this whole emergency concept," he said. "There's no comparison now to what there was then.
"And there hasn't been a serious nuclear accident in this country since."
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Smith said that since the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, nuclear plants planned became much more detailed.
Then at about 2 a.m., KU police dispatch received a call from residents at Jayhawker Towers Apartments, 1603 W. 15th St., who said several people with guns were in the parking lot. Before police arrived the armed people had left in a light-colored or yellow Cadillac and a red or maroon Chrysler Park Avenue, residents told police.
At about 1:20 a.m., two police officers who were escorting people from the party reported they heard shots fired from the 1200 block of Oread Avenue, Longaker said. She said officers investigated the area but found nothing except a small dog. The dog was sitting in a parking lot across from the Union. It apparently had been there for some time and had not been fired recently.
Longaker said that about 15 people were fighting inside the Union and about 30 were fighting in front of the Union. She said police were still investigating what caused the fight and who was involved.
Smith said that 250 to 300 people attended the party and that the fight started when fraternity members tried to escort some people out.
Jim Long, director of unions, estimated that the damage to the Union was $250. He said that if police could not determine who broke the windows, Alpha Phi Alpha would be responsible for the damages.
KU police investigate Union fight
Staff writer
The fight broke out about 12:30 a.m. Saturday during a dance at the Union sponsored by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, 1014 Mississippi St., said Keith Smith, Alpha Phi Alpha Broken and a fraternity member suffered a cut on his hand that required 20 stitches.
By NOEL GERDES Staff writer
KU police continue to investigate incidents connected with a fight at the Kansas Union early Saturday morning, Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said yesterday.
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