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Dy JEANM1E FARIS
Staff Writer
In 1978, the Carolina Power &
Light Co. began construction of its
Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant
about 20 miles southwest of Raleigh.
Eight years later, plant officials are
loading fuel into the reactor while
awaiting a full-power operation
license from the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
The Harris plant is one of 20
plants that applied for NRC permits
in the late 1970s and are still
incomplete or await operation
licenses, said NRC spokeswoman
Sue Gagner.
Eight years is not unusually long
for nuclear power plant construction
and licensing, she said, adding that
since the late 1970s, only two plants
have received full-power operation
licenses.
Lengthy delays in construction
and licensing and the absence of
building requests have resulted from
a combination of events, industry
officials said.
The accident at Three Mile Island
and the subsequent onslaught of
nuclear regulation have been highly
contributive to the licensing delays.
The process itself has become fairly
drawn out," said Cynthia Tulley,
-regulatory activities project manager
for the Atomic Industries Forum
'Bircraglht dries farmers9 pffoffits
By JANET GOLDEN
Staff Writer
When the drought hit in late
spring of this year, there wasn't much
that the state and federal govern
ments could do for farmers hit by
it, according to state officials.
North Carolina's corn farmers
were affected the most, said Cheryl
Fox of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Crop and Livestock
Reporting Service in Raleigh. Corn
farmers harvested an average of one
ear per stalk this fall, she said, when
there are normally two or three.
Tobacco farmers were also hit
hard by the drought, yielding the
lowest crop since 1934, she said.
Because of the low water level in
lakes, there was no place from which
water could be irrigated to farms,
she said.
James Wilder, executive vice
president of the N.C. Soybean
Growers Association, agreed that
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CP&L spokesman Roger Hannah
agreed, saying that delays resulted
primarily from the NRC regulations
requiring the utility companies to
conduct numerous studies and eva
luations during the construction
process.
The entire process requires the
NRC to monitor constantly the
construction and test results before
granting the 15 licenses and permits
and 60 regulatory approvals, Han
nah said. After utilities have received
the initial licenses for construction,
they must conduct or oversee envi
ronmental studies.
The next stage of the process
requires the utility company to begin
pre-operational testing of the facility
before contacting the NRC to
request a low power testing permit
at 5 percent of the plant's capabil
ities. The Harris plant received this
permit Jan. 24.
Gagher said that two stages of
public hearings are also essential in
the licensing process, including
participation of the NRC technical
staff, the applicant utility company
and any other interested groups. The
first hearing is mandatory, and the
utility company must hold it before
the NRC grants the low-power
license. The second hearing generally
occurs before the operating license
nothing could be done once the
drought had begun.
"It was the kind of situation where
everyone looks up at the sun and
says, 'Golly, when will it evef rain?' "
he said.
Wilder said the State Department
of Agriculture had done all it could
to help farmers. Although the U.S.
Department of Agriculture could
have made grants to crop farmers
for financial assistance under the
1985 Federal Farm Bill, it did not,
he said.
Many soybean farmers were
affected by the drought, particularly
in the Piedmont and in the western
part of the state, he said.
"A lot of farmers planted one, two,
three times and never got a crop,"
he said.
The hay shipments over the
summer to N.C. farmers from other
states were not widely beneficial,
Wilder said. "As noble as (the effort)
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is granted, but is not mandatory, she
said.
"Some plants have had hearings
if the opposition has been strong, in
an effort to discuss complicated and
involved situations where people
intervene. It is not unusual," Gagner
said.
Tulley agreed that public opposi
tion can significantly delay the
construction and licensing of nuclear
power plants. "Depending on the
level of involvement of the public
and how long it takes to get issues
to be resolved, the length of licensing
is affected," she said.
CP&L has encountered opposi
tion from the Coalition for Alter
natives to Shearon Harris, but
Hannah said that the opposition had
not been unusually severe. "We
haven't had as much opposition as
some have had. We have been open
and tried to explain what's going on
in all stages of the construction and
testing," he said.
CASH spokesman Wells Eddie
man said that delays occurred
because the CP&L service area did
not really need the plant.
"That's the most delayed (plant)
that we're aware of in the United
States, and not a bit is due to citizen
action," he said.
Hannah attributed the halt Of
requests for nuclear power plant
was, it only helped livestock
farmers," he said.
However, he added that the soy
bean crop across the state was not
much below normal this year.
David Epperson, researcher for
the North Carolina Climate Pro
gram at N.C. State University, said
that the long-term drought, which
has accumulated since 1984, is not
over. He estimated that rainfall is
about one foot below normal now.
Charles Matthews of the National
Weather Service at RDU said that
North Carolina is still in "a state of
moderate drought."
Marketing experts
to talk at University
for MBA career day
The UNC MBA School will be
sponsoring a "Marketing Careers
Day" from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday in the second floor of
the Kenan Center.
Marketing experts from many
U.S. corporations, will be on hand v
at the.Kenan. Center .to talk to MBA
students interested in marketing.v' r '
Richard Dedrick, vice president of
marketing for the James River
Corp., will be the guest speaker at
2:30 p.m. in room 204 of the Kenan
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The program is sponsored by the
UNC MBA Marketing Club, and is
open to all MBA students.
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construction permits since the 1970s
to the uncertainty of the regulatory
environment.
"No one is willing at this point
to build more nuclear plants. But in
our service area, energy use will
continue to grow," Hannah said.
Tulley said economic conditions
could have a large impact on nuclear
power plant construction. When the
building and licensing requests
flourished in the 1970s, the energy
crisis was at a peak and the nation
was increasingly dependent upon oil
imports for its energy needs.
But by the 1980s, the oil crisis had
passed, and energy demand had
decreased, so utility companies are
now less likely to risk the construc
tion costs of nuclear power plants.
Eddleman said that the unpopu
larity of nuclear waste management
and radiation exposure have given
nuclear power plants bad publicity.
He said that nuclear power is aV
risky investment. "Nuclear power is
the only technology where you can
lose a billion-dollar plant in an
aftemoon,'' he said. 1
But CP&L is pressing ahead with
fuel loading and pre-operational
systems testing to ensure that the
equipment is safe and efficient while
it is awaiting the full-power license
from the NRC, Hannah said.
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to ask the police not to arrest the
students waiting outside.
While negotiations continued in
Steele Building, about 40 students
gathered in the rain for an inpromptu
debate about divestment between
group members and other students.
"If we force companies to pull out
we won't have any influence in there
anymore," said Bill Peaslee, chair
man of the College Republicans. He
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Gunshots fired from car kill
president of Renault in Paris
From Associated Press reports
. PARIS i Georges Besse,
president of the state-run Renault
automobile company, was shot to
death Monday night near his
home in Paris, pfficials said.
The 58-yeaf-old Besse was
felled by several gunshots about
8:25 p.m. on Boulevard Edgar
Quinet, almost' in front of his
home. I
The Agehce France Presse
news agency said Besse was shot
by a man and a woman passing
by in a car.
No more U.S. arms for Iran?
WASHINGTON President
Reagan said Monday he has
"absolutely no plans" to send
more arms to Iran, although his
spokesman said the presidents
authorization for the weapons
shipments technically remained in
effect.
As he posed for pictures at the
start of a meeting with Argentine
President Raul jAlfonsin, Reagan
was asked if there would be more
U.S. arms shipments to Iran like
those he confirmed last week after
numerous published reports of
secret U.S.-Iranian dealings.
"We have absolutely no plans
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said divestment would cause South
African blacks more problems.
Eric Walker, group member and
vice president of UNC's Black
Student Movement, replied that only
1 percent of blacks in South Africa
are now employed, and that their
situation could not get much worse.
"If you thrust your hand into a 300
degree flame and somebody turns it
up to 500 degrees,! does it hurt any
more?" he asked. ,
1 p.ni. Group member Marguerite
Arnold came from Steele Building
to say that Boulton needed about 15
more minutes. "It looks very favor
able," she said.
1:30 p.m. Student negotiators said
they would have to wait until 2 p.m.,
because Boulton said he needed to
"touch base" with other administra
tors, including Susan Ehringhaus,
assistant to the chancellor.
Students continued to wait while
their numbers dwindled. Hahamo
vitch passed around a yellow legal
pad for students tp sign up to stay
in the shanty. The! 2 p.m. deadline
passed. ;
2:30 p.m. The student negotiators
emerged from Steele Building with
smiles on their faces, giving the
thumbs-up sign to their counterparts
outside.
"They have seen the logic of
, allowing us to put up the shanties,"
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told reporters. Nor, he said,
would he be firing Secretary of
State George Shultz or any other
top foreign policy advisers as a
result of public controversy over
the covert operation.
Astronauts start shuttle drills
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Astronauts will board a space
shuttle Tuesday for the first time
since the Challenger accident for
a practice countdown that will
help launch teams maintain pro
ficiency during a long flightless
period.
The drills will conclude seven
weeks of launch pad tests for
Atlantis, which will be moved
back to a hangar on Saturday.
The exercises mark the last
chance that astronauts and
launch teams will have to sharpen
their skills with a shuttle on the
pad until Discovery is rolled out
of storage to be readied for the
next shuttle launch, now set for
Feb. 18, 1988.
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Reid-Pharr announced to cheers
from students. "So we're going to
build a shanty."
3 p.m. The shanty's construction
was completed. A black sign reading
"Making Those Killer Bucks" was
hung inside, while "UNC Divest
Now!" was spray-painted in gold on
one of the shanty's walls.
Boulton said he made his decision
alone.. "I understand where they're
coming from and their deep con
cerns," he said.
The students discussed the issue
responsibly, Boulton said. "There
was a sense of reasonableness," he
said. "We must preserve the right of
reasonable protest."
Most students in Polk Place
Monday agreed that building the
shanty was a good idea.
"This is a legitimate and effective
way for students to express their
views," Student Body President
Bryan Hassel said after Boulton's
decision. "If anything, it's just going
to remind administrators and the
public that it's the students who have
kept the issue alive."
But Peaslee said that if the shanty
remains for long, the College Repub
licans might build a "Berlin wall" to
protest the shanty, as they did last
year to protest the support groups
shanties. "It violates my right to a
beautiful campus," he said.
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