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Her By Stan Benjamin Assoclotftd Press Wrttsr MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) ? If the time comes to walk into a room hot with lethal doses of radiation at the Three Mile Island nuclear energy plant, the first one in will be Herman ? and he won't have a choice. Herman is a robot. As a nuclear life-saver, he has worked wonders. But as a robot, the 13-year-old mechanical marvel probably would be a vast disappointment to science fiction fans weaned on R2D2. Herman is mainly a large motorized box. He (she? it?) is 5 feet long, 6 feet tall and mounted on tank-like treads. He has one long arm and two strong fingers. The robot's range extends Riley From page 5 There will be an investigation of uie uconee piani, accoraing 10 I Brown. I Brown said the Oconee Plant has I' the procedures necessary to avert the absence of a backup cooling system, which was the problem at the Middletown plant. William Burch, director of the S.C. Nuclear Advisory Council, said he had contacted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, about the plants in South Carolina, but the NRC was already working on a review of the situation. Burch said the job of the 11member council is to learn more about nuclear plants by incidents such as these. "We want to know what went wrong and why it went wrong," Burch said. Brown and Burch both said it is ultimately the NRC's responsiblity to review and possibly shut down plants if they are determined unsafe. Brown said Riley is pleased with the recent nuclear demeonstrations and is glad that people ai \z snivel ncu cuvm^ii iu (jiuitM in support of their beliefs. "Gov. Riley stood in favor of having nuclear information made available to the public," he said. (JSC- 1 From page 5 "People are protesting the Barnwell processing plant, whereas in the Savannah River Plant, there is about ten times as much radioactivity being processed all the time," Edge said. "Nobody dares to say anything about that because it's supposed to be for our protection, although God knows we have about ten times as many bombs as would destroy the world's population; you just never hear about the Savannah Plant/' he added. Edge said the federal government rourt be urged to remove the waste hoi Jfeat South Cmluaans have neyotee in the Miner Alibis to something that is mil because to Ctrtiliaa ** Mffa n niii *iPfeanr iK iah- goea cqauMf ixvtn rfRli fcjjw!1^ the boat,"he?&id ^ 1 * % '.i man does to 400 feet, a limit set by his umbilical cord, a nower ' A. control cable. Harold Denton, operations chief for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told reporters Wednesday: "We haven't used Herman the Robot yet, 'Herman has , touch. He can do you can do with y< (but) we hone to use him to take samples in high radiation areas and avoid unnecessary exposures (of radiation) to people." 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A few years ago, Herman ffrllWTIII'flSi fast wi without rtm| tests anc ?il:r^f Keep SP^s^n %l2i_ ^ - Cours ^ ^ Outlii L _ I ENGIb 31 (Federal Government a< some of the most impo being done today....in < cation, transportation, c tense, exploring inner an vironment. Some of the jobs are i facilities found nowhere the work is interesting ar portunities for advancen Our nationwide netwo Iferred to agencies in eve For information abou speciality and location, resume to Engineer Rec United States of America Office of Personn Washington, D C. 20415 ' Name n H AtWf sm a m atv Degree level end EngtneertfB 8B ' .Vv-. ????-? isnc ' , 1 ; ,? tion freed a container of radioactive Cobalt 60 that 1 j _i-i- i_ nau guuen siuck in a pneumatic transfer tube in a lab at the University of Rochester in New York state. Another time, Herman crawled into a physics lab at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., to retrieve a radioactive source that had gotten loose. 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