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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 22, 1991
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With Potter Lake as a backdrop, Candy Pomaricau, a senior at Atchison High School, poses for his senior portrait with Maggie Kruger, a
Lawrence area photographer. Kruger does several outdoor senior portraits a year but said the leaves were not as pretty this late in the fall.
Workers move bombs from derailment site
The Associated Press
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. — Workers gingerly moved a boxcar filled with cluster bombs away from the site of a train derailment that sparked a fire and prompted the evacuation of 3,000 people.
With the fire out but still smoldering,
authorities planned today to remove a tank car carrying 30,000 gallons of the flammable liquid propylene oxide.
It was not known how soon people living within a mile of the area would be allowed to return to their homes or when removal of the chemical car would be completed, CSX railroad representative Dick Bussard said.
"We just want to be very careful.",
Bussard said. "We don't expect problems because things are going smooth."
"We don't want to take any chances."
The car carrying the bombs overturned in Tuesday's derailments Workers used bales of hay and other materials Wednesday to cushion its interior as they sat it upright before moving it away from the wreck.
Bob Dempley, a representative for Bullitt County's Department of Disaster and Emergency Services, said the ammunition car had been moved about a mile from the accident scene this morning. The bombs were being loaded into the Crane Naval Warrior Support Center in southwestern Indiana.
He said crews were working their way toward the tank car with the flammable chemical, which would be removed next.
That tank car was coupled to another car that was dangling off a railroad bridge over the Salt River that partially collapsed during the derailment.
Workers will have to put the tanker back on the track to move it, which Bussard called "a painstaking operation but not really that complicated."
Bussard said workers would rather not remove the highly flammable
"The position it is in, if it were to fail,
we would have a breach and I’m sure
we would have a fire and or an explosion.
We’re Roberts, a deputy state fire marshal.
Railroad officials said the accident was caused by a garbage truck that struck the bridge and knocked the railroad bed several inches out of alignment. Two people in the truck suffered injuries, but no one else was hurt.
Early this morning, four firefighters for the Zoneton Fire Department became ill while working to keep smoldering wood palp at the derailment site from flaring up again.
"They became ill, apparently from carbon monoxide that was produced by burning wood pulp," said Bullitt County Disaster and Emergency Services Director Mark Kaiser. The four were treated at Methodist Evangelical Hospital and released. Their identities were not immediately available.
The truck struck the bridge 10 minutes before the derailment. Bullitt County emergency dispatchers got a call about the bridge damage almost at the same time the derailment occurred officials said.
Before the car was moved, teams conducted house-to-house checks in the evacuation area to ensure that no vehicle returned, said Mayor Larry Hatfield.
A representative for Waste Management Systems of Kentucky, which owns the truck, said the crash occurred when the driver tried to take a lift vehicle under the bridge, which has a clearance of only 10 feet, 9 inches.
The representative, Bill Plunket,
said the driver had a good safety
record but was taking a substitute
route when the accident occurred.
Authorities feared the fire might cause an explosion of a tanker car carrying methylene diphenyl diacyanate, a flammable liquid used to make plastics. But heavy rain morning helped cause the fire.
ON CAMPUS
propylene oxide from the tank car before it's returned to the track and pulled away.
The Associated Press
open the observatory for public viewing at 7:30 tonight at the Clyde W. Tombaugh Observatory in 500 Lindley Hall.
The astronomy department will
The Baha'i club will meet at 7 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
WASHINGTON — A fleet of planes spraying 50,000 tons of propane or ethane high over the South Pole could possibly neutralize the Antarctic ice shelf. But the idea is impractical, but they think it could start serious discussion.
"This is a concept and not a proposal," said Ralph Cicerone, professor of geosciences at the University of California at Irvine and co-author of a study to be published today in the journal Geology, thinking about these things, but we aren't serious about going out and doing them yet."
Cicerone and two other scientists created a computer model that suggests that by injecting 50,000 tons of some hydrocarbon, such as propane or ethane, into the dark, bitterly cold, wintertime South Polar sky, they could set off a chemical reaction that would prevent the seasonal destruction of ozone in the southern stratosphere.
They said the propane or ethane gas would have to be sprayed into the polar sky by a squadron of several hundred bombers. There were the few weeks of the southern winter.
Air squadron spraying gases could neutralize ozone hole
The plan, said Ciercerone, is not an idea whose time has come. But he thinks it is an idea that humanity may undergo closer during the next 109 years.
For more than a decade, atmospheric scientists have known that the ozone layer over the South Pole thinly sharply during the southern winter. They have blamed it on chlorine atoms, released by human industry, which interact with ozone in the presence of darkness, stratospheric clouds and deep cold.
These atoms strip one of three oxygen atoms from ozone molecules. When this happens millions of times,
the ozone layer is thinned, creating what has been called an "ozone hole" over Antarctica.
Industrial nations acknowledged the danger and agreed to stop producing the chemicals, principally chlorine, or CFCs, that are responsible.
Ozone is important to life on Earth because it blocks the ultraviolet rays of the sun. This type of radiation causes sunburn, skin cancer, weakens the immune system and kills some forms of cancer. A recent study dated increased ultraviolet radiation in Australia following the season hole over the South Pole.
In the century ahead, Cicerone said, the situation may become intolerable and people will start looking for solutions. He worries that when that day comes, humanity will be ill-prepared or out of global environmental manipulation.
But Cicerone said that the chlorine atoms that cause the ozone hole will remain active in the atmosphere for about 100 years.
"We believe the ozone hole will reap Pear every year for about 100 years, even though the world has now taken good action to stop the flow of chlorofluorocarbons," he said in an interview.
Cicerone and Scott Elliott of UC, Irvine, and Richard Turcro, professor of atmospheric sciences at UCLA, computer simulation to test their idea.
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They concluded that hydrocarbon molecules would bind with chlorine atoms in the polar stratosphere and prevent the interaction with ozone. Cicerone said it would take 50,000 tons of chlorine to destroy that the process would have to be repeated annually until the manmade chlorine atoms finally decay.
Sunday, November 24th, 1991
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