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:2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, August 29, 1986
Aungujist rains irfinistag away water crisis
By TOBY MOORE
Stan Writer
Despite recent rains that have
helped alleviate water shortages.
North Carolina's drought is still
lingering, according to National
Weather Service officials.
"The August rains have alleviated
a great deal of the problems,'' said
Don Clontz of the National Weather
Consumer group calls for
From Associated Pr reports
WASHINGTON The only way
to protect the American public from
atomic power risks is to shut down
all U.S. nuclear plants, a Ralph
Nader-affiliated organization
asserted Thursday.
"The message from the operating
experience of U.S. reactors in 1984
and 1985 is clear: the plants are
unsafe and their safety record con
tinues to worsen," the Critical Mass
Energy Project said in its 1984-85
Nuclear Power Safety Report, which
said it was dedicated to the victims
of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl
in the Soviet Union.
"The likelihood and consequences
of an accident, so dramatically
demonstrated at the Chernobyl
disaster, strongly argue for rapidly
phasing out the nation's nuclear
power program," said the report
written by Joshua Gordon.
Critical mass is the amount of
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The new afr-conditioned Dean E. Smith Center:
Even when the Heels are hot, its not.
Service in Charlotte. But, he added
that the area is still 14.5 inches below
normal for this time of the year.
Clout said the drought, which
began in the spring and was aggra
vated by what he called "the driest
June ever," is being eased by an
August rainfall that has been well
above normal.
Charlotte received only 0.41
energy required to sustain a nuclear
chain reaction. The Critical Mass
Energy Project was founded by
Nader 12 years ago.
Based on data from the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission and other
sources, the group contends 1985
was the worst year for U.S. nuclear
safety. Among its findings, some of
them released in May after the
Chernobyl accident, were these:
B Ten serious accidents
"abnormal occurrences" ranging
from high radiation exposures and
loss of radioactive material to
management problems affecting
safety happened in 1985.
B 2,977 plant mishaps - "licensee
events" ranging from minor to
significant breakdowns in plant
systems or procedures were
reported to the NRC in 1983, a 23
percent increase over 1984.
B There were 764 emergency
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inches of rain in June after a May
in which only 2 inches of rain fell.
"We've had 8.6 inches of rain so
far this month, compared to a
normal rainfall of 4.19 inches," said
Bob Drummond of the Greensboro
weather office.
He noted that July and August
are traditionally North Carolina's
wettest months, with September and
nuclear plant closures
shutdowns at U.S. plants in 1985,
a 28 percent rise over 1984.
B Nine plants accounting for 12
percent of the U.S. nuclear power
generating capacity were indefinitely
closed in 1985.
Nuclear
government when it builds a national
repository, probably by 1990, Shea
rin said.
Future plans for the power plant
do not hold much change or expan
sion, Pasteur said.
Although the Shearon Harris
plant was originally designed to
accommodate four reactors, only the
existing reactor will serve the facility.
Locations for the other three units
on the construction site remain
conspicuously empty. Back-up diesel
generators have been built for the
second absent reactor to operate in
case of a power failure.
"Because of current regulations
and the regulatory climate, we have
no plans to expand. Regulations now
are phenomenal," Pasteur said.
He added that further construc
tion on the $3.4 billion plant would
be very expensive.
Shearin said the use of nuclear
power as an alternate to coal will
save money. "It will pay for itself.
Nuclear power is expensive . . . but
has already saved hundreds of
millions of dollars because the cost
of coal is very high," he said.
He acknowledged that there are
many more hazards to operating a
nuclear power plant than a coal
plant, but he said that he thought
employee safety training and equip
ment would compensate for that.
The plant's negative reactivity is
an example of one safety precaution
because it causes the plant to
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October being much drier.
"We need four or five more inches
to bring this area's precipitation back
to normal," Drummond said.
The mountains have been hardest
hit by the drought, with some areas
still 20 inches below normal. The
northern Piedmont is still 11.48
inches below normal for this time
in the year.
Don Winston, a spokesman for
the Atomic Industrial Forum, said
he did not know how Critical Mass
could say the nuclear safety was at
an all-time low in terms of safety last
year.
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automatically shut down if some
thing is amiss, Shearin said. He
compared this to the Chernobyl
plant's positive reactivity, which
causes the facilities to steam up after
a mistake.
But people living in the surround
ing area feel threatened by the
nuclear power plant.
Pasteur said that he and Shearin
try to inform these people about the
plant and its operations.
"The more informed they are and
the more they can understand the
operation, the more comfortable
they are with it," he said.
... Working as a field surveyor and
talking to these families, Pasteur said
he tells them he lives in the area also.
"It seems to ease them when they
know we're not sponges we live
here too. I tell them we have families
and homes and dogs just like they
do," Pasteur said.
But the people receiving CP&L
power will also feel the financial
impact of the emerging emphasis
upon nuclear power plants. The base
rate people pay for their power will
increase.
"Utilities are in the business to
borrow money to build power plants
that will generate electricity . . . (for)
demands," he said.
CP&L has no other plans to
construct more nuclear reactors, so
the rate increase will eventually level
off, Shearin said. But that could take
ten years, he said.
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Police brutality protested
by South African students
From Associated Press reports
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa Rock-throwing stu
dents clashed with police Thurs
day at the University of Witwa
tersand after a meeting called to
protest violence in the black
township of Soweto in which at
least 21 people were killed and
98 injured.
Students called their meeting to
protest riots in Soweto on Tues
day night and Wednesday in
which the government said 20
blacks were shot by security
forces. The students began throw
ing stones at cars and apolice film
crew, witnesses said, and police
responded with tear gas.
N.C. radium not a threat
RALEIGH State and fed
eral offcials say excessive radium
levels recorded in North Carolina
drinking water don't pose an
immediate health hazard, but
may slightly raise the risk of some .
cancer if the water is drunk for
an entire lifetime.
The Environmental Protection
Agency is trying to force 28 small
North Carolina water systems to
meet federal standards for
radium, a product of the radioac
tive decay of uranium. The well
based systems have been found
to exceed the conservative federal
Cocaine victims to speak
By NANCY HARRINGTON
Staff Writer
Charlotte Hunter wants to talk
about something that took less than
30 seconds to become addicted to
and more than three years to recover
from.
She wants to talk about something
that made her lie, cheat and steal
from those who knew and trusted
her.
She wants to talk about cocaine,
and, as one of the 13 guest speakers
at the Cocaine Connection Confer
ence to be held Sept. 1 1-13 in Chapel
Hill, she'll get the chance. The
conference will examine why
cocaine, once the drug of the yup
pies, has become prevalent in today's
society, according to organizers.
Hunter wants to share her expe
riences with cocaine, in the hope of
helping others.
"1 never experienced anything so
alluring and seductive," Hunter said
of the "monster" that made her turn
her back on every ethical system she
had valued since childhood.
"Cocaine made me feel inside the
way I had always wanted to feel on
the outside." .
Cocaine addiction recoveries such
as Hunter's, however, are only one
topic of the three-day conference
sponsored by UNC's Student Health
Service, CHAPS Health Services,
and the Justice Foundation of North
Carolina. The conference includes a
registration fee of $50.
Other topics include cocaine's
effect On young people, drugs in
sports, and the influence of heroes,
especially sports personalities, on
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Officials aren't sure how the
radium is getting into the water
systems, but some experts suspect
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trated by deep wells. Some com
monplace materials, such as
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In search of Noah's Ark
ERZURUM, Turkey
Former U.S. astronaut James
Irwin arrived here to climb
Mount Ararat in his continuing
quest to find Noah's Ark, the
independent Hurriyet news
agency reported.
Kutlu Aktas, governor of the
Agri province where Mount
Ararat is found, said Irwin had
obtained permission from the
Turkish Interior Ministry for his
team to explore the 17,000-foot
mountain in eastern Turkey.
The Bible's Book of Genesis
says Noah's Ark washed up near
Mount Ararat.
"We think the time is ripe to
remind people on earth that we
have a fragile existence," Irwin
told reporters Tuesday. "God
might have preserved the Ark all
these years to remind us (of) that."
society.
The aim of the conference is to
unite educators, law enforcement
officials, coaches and counselors and
to raise the awareness level concern
ing cocaine, according to Sue Gray,
one chairwoman of the conference
and director of health education at
the Student Health Service.
,"We want to get across that
cocaine (addiction) is a con and all
the talk about 'it not happening to
me' is a lie," she said. "It's important
for people to know that what can
happen to a Leonard Bias can
happen to them."
According to Gray, planning for
the conference, which is open to the
public, had begun before University
of Maryland basketball star Len Bias
died from a cocaine overdose this
summer. Drug use by stars like Bias
often influences the decisions that
young people make concerning
drugs, she said.
That's one reason the conference
will include discussion focusing on
athletics, Gray said. Special guests
include former UNC athletes Charlie
"Choo-Choo"Justice, Brad Daugh
erty, Steve Hale, Sam Perkins,
Michael Jordan, James Worthy and
Al Wood.
Mercury Morris, a former Miami
Dolphins running back who served
three years in prison for cocaine use
and possession, will give the keynote
speech on Thursday.
More information concerning
registration is available through
Gray or DeVetta Holman at the
Student Health Service.
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