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Coalition to study nuclear questions Your < word I fill In I wordt Whi qua W There'! Th Wi our bee Pabst E like Pal tasting PABS ?1978 PABS By MARK J. LUNDGREN News Editor The groundwork for a statewide nuclear coalition to look into the overall question of energy was laid at a conference of nuclear energy skeptics this weekend at a conference at USC. Brett Bursey of Columbia's Grass Roots Organizing Workshop, known as GROW, said the purpose of the coalition would be to see "what we can do to try and check the heretofore unchecked growth of nuclear energy." "WE DON'T want it to be just an anti-nuclear group," Bursey said. "I think we'll see a phasing out of nuclear energy." Bursey described the proposed organization as a progressive coalition to investigate problems and issues concerning nuclear power. The group would also be concerned with finding ways to have energy technology challenge is to construct the mystery In the boxes below. 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ONE SUBJECT the coalition would investigate is the cost of dismantling nuclear power plants, which have lifespans of about 40 years. They must be then dismantled. The cost of taking apart a plant in 40 years will be about 100 million dollars, Bursey said. The coalition will investigate I? >na ? "a missing letters to the corresponding bered boxes. Keep an eraser handy ? as easy as it looks! XA\ RAP ?\ J \CH \ ECH > ' J 8 TRAI J 9 QU TE f 10 BR WN J 11 _^AILS T \ enge, ^ fference. the challenge. o oner you, too. ^BggpfJ j the quality of id compare urn beer. You'll 1 means the best 1 : always has. ility has always come ?. Ill . Newark. N J I OS Angeles Calil . Pabsl Geoigi km* tmiiayi who will pay for the cost of dismantling the plants. TTiere are many hidden costs in the nuclear process, Bursey said, and this is one of them. One proposal to solve this cost is mnroQcinn A ? ?* - u.v> vuomg uLinLjr uui& 10 raise money to pay for the dismantling, putting this money in the bank and letting the interest collect so there will be enough money to pay for it when the time comes. Bursey criticized this proposal saying that since nuclear costs have risen so much in recent years and will probably continue to do so, there is no clear way to determine how much the actual cpst will be. The prniin u/ill iniToc?inntn *'? 0 r ..m.. iiiiunigaic U1C licensing status of the V.C. Sumner plant in Jenkinsville which has a construction permit, but not an operation permit. They will also look into the licensing of the proposed Cherokee plant outside of Gaffney which has neither a I i numit's not through. _ ? c> ~ construction nor operation permit. The coalition wants to keep up with where these two plants stand in the licensing procedure. Both of these plants would be located on the Broad River from which Columbia gets its drinking water, according to Bursey. THE COALITION would establish a studv ernun tn in. vestigate the distribution of nuclear energy around the world and its possible effects. In only three to five years after receiving a nuclear energy plant, a nation can develop the technology to build a bomb, Bursey said. A long-range study of the effects 1 * ui uic nuuiear spin at tne KeoweeToxaway nuclear plant in Oconee County would be requested of the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) by the coalition, Bursey said. RADIOACTIVE material leaked from the plant earlier this year into Lake Hartwell, and Duke Power Co. failed to notify anybody for over 24 hours. The company then added water to the lake to dilute the material. The plant was fined $23,000 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Bursey proposes that DHEC contact and observe those persons who drank the water, which is from Clemson University's water supply. The coalition would also request a written statement from DHEC stating that nuclear waste would not be stored in South Carolina for more than ten years. The group would also investigate the danger of nuclear waste exploding. Bursey said each nuclear plant has a capacity to store a certain amount of its own waste, but that some are "becoming constipated with their own waste." Lamar Priester, deputy commission of DHEC said he is against South Carolina being used as a See NUCLEAR, page 6 [problem | | PREGNANCY? NEED HELP? Columbia 254-7817 Charleston 722-8318 | WE CAN HELP 1 [ ??a??n???a? LATE SHOWS FHI. & SAT. NITES 11:30 - ADM. $2.50 ' L^^secAL pint BLAU vmu j|| I IPBS9I M l ^ Wf p-^ i i ft J( N 5 II p| I ATE SHOWS 0 f FRI.&SAT. NITES U !| 11:15- ADM. $2.50 H MADNESS1 I I 4 'JOURNEY I pi THROUGH I |? THE PAST I