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Valid! By Mark Platte Oamccoch St*tf Writt The battle over the use of nucl power continued Thursday at Russell House Ballroom, representatives of Westinghouse Electric Compj debated members of the Palrm Alliance in an effort to determ the possible sources of fut energy. The Westinghouse represi tatives, who advocate the use nuclear power, consisted of Sc Mosar, design engineer Westinghouse, and Gus Tayl senior project engineer. 1 Palmetto Alliance members, v are opposed to nuclear pov. were represented by Tru Nettles, a state prosecutor, < Albert Blackwell, associ professor of humanities i religion at Furman University "A recent American Medi Association study has indica that when you use and compare the risks to the general public v, people working in the industry < you take and consider all ris including all accidents and health effects, generating el tricity by coal is 100 times grea risk to the people, the gene public, as well as the occupatio workers," Taylor said. BLACK WELL, also on the he? question, said, "U.S. Public He* Service has estimated that fr 6,000 men who have mir uranium, some 600 to 1,100 will of lung cancer. Blackwell said that solar ene would be the best alternat judging by the way it works countries such as West Germa Sweden and Japan. Blackwell i t?i r CJ V. 1801 Main Stn Columbia, So ' Telephone Contemporary CI! P ir HBSese -? ty of nui said plutonium is dangerous and should be kept secured. ear tho I'Tl.:- 2. " v a Ilia iiiuv.ii ^luiuiiiuin veigfll as grams) is sufficient to produce a the bomb such as that which destroyed any the city of Nagasaki in World War stto II," Blackwell said. "It's not line terribly difficult to create such a ure bomb, and even a terrorist organization which had no capacity to create such a bomb en* could easily send a sample through of the mail to prove they had it, ott ciaim they had made a bomb and tor extort almost anything they or, wanted from anybody." "he vho Nettles, who became involved er, with the energy fight when he saw art a poster stating that South ind Carolina was going to be the ate nuclear dumping ground of ind America, said, "'When I started. I found just like you do with environmental issues, it's not so cal much the degradation of the ented vironment, the wildlife, the people all or whatever. What hits me is that rith it's such a rip-off. It's so exmd pensive." iks, ali WHEN ASKED what the fate of lec- South Carolina will be as a dum ter ping ground for waste, Mosar said, xal "It's the legal responsibility of the nal U.S. government officials to decide where and how the wastes will be buried." kith ilth Nettles also expressed concern om with the waste problem: "We led continue .to build nuclear power die plants and we do not have a demonstrated way to deal with these wastes. The substances rgy produced by generating electricity ive through nuclear energy are going in to be hazardous throughout the ny, environment for at least 250,000 ilso years. Carole Vicki entro >et/Jefferson Square >uth Carolina 29201 >: (803) 779-8325 hair sty ling for men & women jg,REDKEN 1 clear pc "Looking at the energy picture, r the energy mix, I very strongly s believe we must take a strong d course of conservation," Taylor r said. "We must insure that we fi Sour beautiful imf y Other import art caler 5 HURRY! START Th 5 will i Z Wedi y from 3 until i 5 of J IN PURS S IS1 Call 74 (m j=Q^ )g Hi >wer dc nake a wise choice of our energy a ources available. These include e leveloping solar power, using il tuclear energy and coal to g generate electricitv. to Hpvplnn c ? . ? ? - -'"r & THE BOOK r USC Campus ? . in the Kuss JUST AR >()RTED ADV ENT CALI tdars - some for framing, IE COUWDOlt A TO C R JAMES DICKEY be in The Book Cornt iesday, December j p.m. to sign first edi his two latest honk*. TUCKY and UIT OF THE GREY 30 to reserve your cc OSCCAMPU* BOOKSTO*! j Trj'. Iff] Hi * bate ilternate technology o ^ ventually, it 's not a qu< l s a question of whe oing to have to reach ycle economy." CORNER > Bookstore ell House RIVED ENDARS - $1.2 some postal cai HRISTMAS y<) sr 6 tion copies SOUL >p/es. [y mm >d because ( ?stion of if. < n, we are ' a closed- I I 5 up y \ [ (Is / ! 1W! y ! :i : 3 I , ^jjj I j | MBB ! Iriir^il 1 I