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Wednesday June 17,1987
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No.147 (USPS 650-640)
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Plans for reactor site activate approval, concern
By STORMY WYLIE
Staff writer
Plans for storing KU's hazardous waste in the nuclear reactor building on campus have sparked premature concern, a University official said earlier this week.
The official, Steven Cater, KU environmental health and safety officer, said, "Let me emphasize this. We are just trying to get approval right now. If we get it, then we find the money. But even if we do get approval, we may not do it.
"There're really a lot of 'it's involved here—if we get approval, if we find the money, if we can do what we want and if there's not a lot of opposition."
The University is seeking approval from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to remodel the reactor building into a hazardous waste temporary storage area.
Residents react to hazardous waste storage
By STORMY WYLIE Staff writer
Mention the words "hazardous waste," and people tend to become uneasy. Tell them it might be stored next door to where they live, and they become concerned
Residents of Phi Kappa Psifraternity house, 1602 W. 15th St. and the Jayhawk Towers Apartments, 1603 W. 15th St., expressed obvious concern about the plans to remodel the nuclear reactor center to house hazardous waste
The building is located on West 15th street, across the street from the Towers and just east of the fraternity.
Harold Rosson, associate de engineering, wrote the NRC week to ask for permission to rel the reactor building.
John Montgomery, Junction City junior and vice president of the fraternity, said he wanted to know more about the plans.
The University seeks approval of its plans from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
"I'm a little uneasy about this," he said. "I would want to know more about it. When they took the nuclear stuff out a year and a half ago, it was a little scary."
The radioactive fuel from the nuclear reactor was taken out Jan. 28 and Feb. 2, 1966, in two loads. The reactor began operating in 1961 and was used by the School of Engineering and department of
radiation physics
Sue Reborn, housemother at the fraternity, said she also was uneasy about the plans for storing the waste.
"I have mixed feelings about it," she said. "My personal opinion is: I don't like it, but what can I do about it? How safe is it, that's the question."
Tina Lux, Kansas City, Kan.
senior, and Terry Tucker, Houston
senior, said they wouldn't be
concerned unless the hazardous waste
was nuclear waste.
Tucker said, "I think a lot of people here will be unhappy about it if they do put it over there, but I don't think anyone will move over it. There will be some concern but not panic."
Lisa Carlsten, Lawrence junior,
said she would just wait and see
what happened. She also lives at
the Towers.
"I don't like the idea of it being within a 50-mile radius of Lawrence," she said. "Anything that is hazardous is dangerous. The problem is, I wouldn't want it all in one spot. If there's a chance any of those chemicals could mix . . ."
"I don't really want it across the street," Lux said. "I don't want it anywhere."
"The trailer itself is not unsafe, but is not in the best condition," Cater said.
He said the trailer was quite a distance from the main campus and had no electricity, heating, cooling or phone. Many of the chemicals need to be kept at a fixed temperature.
the KANU tower, Cater said. The waste is transferred every four months to out-of-state storage facilities.
Although the reactor was em of all radioactive fuel last year still licensed by the NRC, and it approve any plans to the rea said Robert Bearse, associate chancellor for research, grad
and just east of the Phi Kappa Psi
f studies and public service
ticides, Drano or Liquid Plumber,
"Sure they are hazardous, but so is
Cater said the University had two options other than remodeling the reactor building: to fix up the trailer or to build a new facility to store the waste. However, the federal government denied a request from the University for money to build a new storage building last year.
Tentative plans to remodel the reactor building call for the addition of a room on each side of the reactor vessel, located on the south side of the building, Cater said. The rooms would be partitioned to separate the
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