/ NEWS / TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Mario Andretti
FACT OF THE DAY
Drinking warm liquids makes a person feel more generous and trusting.
— timesonline.co.uk
Charlie Sheen told the L.A. Times in 1989 that the University of Kansas had once offered him a scholarship to come play baseball. His statement seems to be unconfirmed...
Weather forecast
TUESDAY: Partly cloudy with a high around 51 F and westerly winds around 5 mph
TUESDAY NIGHT: Still partly cloudy with winds from the west to southwesterly direction around 5 mph and a low around 35 F
WEDNESDAY: Warmer and windier, with a high around 65 F and mostly sunny skies. A bit winder with southerly winds around 15 mph
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear with a low around 50 F southerly winds around 10 mph
THURSDAY: Still warm and windy, with a high around 70 F and winds out of the south near 15 mph. A low around 50 F
FRIDAY: Mostly clear with a low around 50 F southerly winds around 10 mph
SATURDAY: Still warm and windy, with a high around 70 F and winds out of the south near 15 mph. A low around 50 F
Forecasters Jordan Carroll and Aaron White
TUESDAY
What's going on?
March 15
Life in Congress is a public event at the Dole Institute of Politics from 4 to 5 p.m. This weekly study group with former congressman Dennis Moore discusses topics dealing with Congress.
WEDNESDAY
March 16
SUA and KU Dining Services are presenting an evening with Danny O'Neill, the founder of The Roasterie. The event is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The event is free.
THURSDAY
SATURDAY
March 19
March 17
The first round of games of the NCAA tournament will be shown in the lobby of the Kansas Union. Food will be provided when KU plays in the tournament. The time will be announced.
The baseball team will play Oklahoma State at 1 p.m. in Hoglund Ballpark. General admission is $8.
SUNDAY March 20
Elizabeth Berghouw will perform on the 53 bronze bells housed in the World War II Memorial Campanile from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
FRIDAY March 18
The department of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity is hosting a workshop titled Everyday Creativity. The event challenges participants to change their perspectives and "reframe problems into opportunities."The free event is from 11:30 a.m.to 1 p.m in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union.
MONDAY March 21
Spring break. No class.
CAMPUS
Student hit by car taken to hospital
Stepnanie Payne, from Denby, was hit by a car at 2:45 p.m. in Lot 90, the large parking lot outside the Ambler Recreation Center, Captain Schuyler Bailey of KU Public Safety said.
A student struck by a car in the parking lot outside the Amber Student Recreation Fitness Center Monday afternoon was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the KU Public Safety Office confirmed.
University Relations declined to comment and directed inquiries to Public Safety.
Setbacks at nuclear reactors increase risk of disaster in Japan
Lawrence Memorial Hospital confirmed that Payne is being treated at the hospital but would not say her condition.
Jonathan Shorman
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
NATORI, Japan — Japan's nuclear crisis took a frightening turn for the worse early Tuesday as officials acknowledged that fuel rods at a quake-damaged nuclear reactor had been temporarily exposed to the air, heightening the risk of an uncontrolled release of radiation into the environment.
in extraordinary televised scenes, three executives from the utility that runs the crippled complex in Fukushima prefecture, about 150 miles north of Tokyo, acknowledged that pumps funneling seawater into one of the reactors had halted temporarily, a major setback in efforts
to cool the superheated core.
"We are trying to reopen the valve," said one of the officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. as they passed the microphone back and forth among themselves. "The fuel rods are exposed. We are trying to get the pressure down and pump water into the pressure vessel again."
It was the gravest development to date in the crisis brought by Friday's devastating temblor, which triggered a tsunami that wrecked massive destruction on the nation's northeastern coast. More than half a million people have been displaced, and the death toll is widely expected to soar into the tens of thousands.
About 2,000 bodies were discovered Monday at two sites in a single prefecture, or state, one of several pummede by the earthquake, the worst in Japan's recorded history. Whole coastal villages were wiped from the map, and a full assessment of the extent of deaths and damage was expected to take weeks. Meanwhile, hardship and privation in the quake zone grew, with tens of thousands of people spending a fourth night in chilly shelters.
In the parallel crisis at the Fukushima No.1 (Daiichi) plant in the town of Okuma, fuel rods twice were not covered by the seawater being used to cool down the reactor, resulting in exposure for about 140
minutes, the Kyodo News agency reported. Prolonged exposure of fuel rods to air can cause them to heat up and melt at least partly. If they melt completely, they could burn through the containment vessel, causing release of radioactive material into the environment.
Officials at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety agency were cited by Kyodo as saying that, even in a worst-case scenario, the three troubled reactors at Fukushima No.1 had been depressurized by the release of radioactive steam, which would decrease the destructive effect of any breach.
any breach. Japan's nuclear crisis began Friday soon after the earthquake, when the
huge tsunami destroyed seawalls and pushed far inland, damaging or destroying pumps and generators crucial to safe operations at the complex. The cooling systems of two reactors were seriously compromised, leading to hydrogen explosions Saturday and again Monday in their outer containment buildings.
The current problem is focused on another reactor at the Fukushima No.1 plant, where a 12-mile evacuation zone was established, forcing nearly 200,000 thousand people to flee.
Many disaster victims are frustrated at the lack of direct information from the government on the state of nuclear reactors in Fukushima.
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