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Sports 12 Spotlight 3 Monetary Opinion 5 Classifieds 1 1 ttugust 24, 1998 ling volunteers? Brent Road body count t'I'ontpagc cover— Mcns‘ s0c~ ’ ’atclt for age in tomorrow’s paper. ccr looks for a new goalie. NICI NCSU artists IECII Design school students show their talents at Arts‘pacc. Nuclear program draws citations picking." he said. “You get a school this cated that contamination surveys were I o NCSU looks to make a few changes large. there is no way you can not find a current. yet when we went back and tried after some safety violations concerning violation." to verify that. we couldn't." (‘ouch said. radioactive material. However. some of the violations are According to Couch. the Improper stir potentially distressing. including a citation veys were due to a “misunderstanding of for placing radioactive material in an the technicians on ltow they are supposed Pillllll’ fliisr unmarked refrigerator. to audit a lab." Stat't WI‘IICT “That was not a proper storage area." In response to the citations. NCSU said Padgett. “You don't want people mix- issued a three-page letter detailing steps N.(‘. State has received numerous safety ing their lunches with a radioactive mate taken to rectify the problems cited by the citations for its handling of radioactive rial." state. According to Padgett. N(‘Sll‘s ntatertal NCSU Radiation Safety Officer Nelson response was “adequate." 'Ilte citations. five in all. were issued ear- Couch was apologetic as he discussed lier this year by the North Carolina many of the citations. “We have no immediate concerns of Department of Environment and Natural “The material in the refrigerator was an safety at N.(‘. State." said Padgett. “Our Resources. Division of Radiation unfortunate oversight." he said. adding concerns are ntore long-term.“ Protection and tlte US. Nuclear that there was nothing besides the radioac- Earlier this year. the US. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. tive material in the fridge. “That was stu- Regulatory Commission issued a citation The citations list violations ranging front pid. It should never have happened." to NCSU's nuclear reactor program. The failure to complete required monthly radi— Another citation focused on a lack of citation alleged that an NCSU procedure ation surveys to art inability to demon- evidence that NCSU workers had received allowing a radiation health physicist to strate that workers had received proper proper radiation training. (‘ouch said the develop “instructions" was a violation of radiation training. charge reflected problems that arise in a standard procedure. Aaron Padgett. chief of the radioactive large program. “The problem was that new instructions N CSU ponies up materials section of the NC. Department “This is a huge university and. for vari« could be developed that could include of Iinvironntent and Natural Resources. ous reasons. [employees] don‘t show up changes to the method and/or the accep- said his department took the violations for training." he said. “We hope to have tance criteria used to complete work.“ the very seriously. but added that entities as that taken care of.“ citation noted. large as NCSU are often cited for safety Until March. NCSU had spent a year Jerry Wicks. NCSU‘s nuclear reactor violations. without key training personnel. Couch health physicist. could not be innttediately $5m for arena “We look at any violation to be very said. reached for comment. important." he said. “We didn‘t have a training person until Despite the citations. Couch contends According to Franklyn Clikeman. a March." he said. “We struggled through that NCSU still handles radioactive mate- for the deficit is coming from. nuclear engineering professor at Purdue with training the best we could." rial in a safe. careful ntanner. 9 The rest of the arena authority’s $25 million “Well. lNCSIl‘s donation] means we have University. the cttations don't appear to be The state also cited NCSU for improper “The materials we work with are small deficit may come from the Carolina Hurricanes $5 million ntore to play with." Williams said. too serious. completion of monthly radiation surveys. in amount and people are working safe- and loans. “We are working With the Hurricanes now to "I see something which borders on nit- “The state found that our surveys indi- ly." he said. find the extra $14 million." Williams said that if the Carolina Hurricanes and NCSU. the primary tenants of the new News I'dttor arena. contributed $14 million to the shortfall. NC. State decided to throw in an extra $5 the remaining $6 to $7 million would come million toward the over-budget sports arena front loans with a finanCIal institution. last week -- instead of the $l0.5 million asked Williams said recently that all finanCIal trou- “forby the arena authority, bles need to be ironed out by October I if the Nevertheless. Athletics Director Les arena is to be opened by September I. WW. Robinson said the authority is happy With the Its target date. extra contribution M'Sl‘ made toward the For NCSI "s contrilnitton. Robinson said the arena. The arena Is being constructed near $5 million would come froitt the athletics Carter-Finley Stadium; the estimated final department's existing budget. cost for the building is at $l57 million. “It's money that we hoped would go to other “Front what I have heard. the arena authori— things withtri the athletic department." said ty is very pleased with the contribution." said Robinson. “It's going to come front athletic Robinson. department revenue." The arena authority wrote a letter to Athletics departitteni revenue comes trom Chancellor Fox last week asking NCSU to things such as telcs IsIon. bowl and ticket rev contribute $l05 million toward the arena's enue. and money from the Wolfpack (‘lub $25 million debt. Ilowever. Robinson said the “Essentially. everything we spend III the Mile university decided $5 million was more suit« Ietic department comes from those arcas." able. Robinson said. “We discussed a lot of different figures " NCSI' originally contributed $22 million to $l0.5 million. $6.6 million. $3 million." the arena. whose completion date and final Robinson said. “$5 million was something budget ltas risen due to poor weather condi that was thought to be a fair number." tions. blunted on Iil Mint. and redesigns and Curt Williams. the authority‘s executive Improvements. some of which were called for director. said NCSU‘s donation means the when the (‘arolina Hurricanes joined the pro. authority has a better idea of where the money ject in May of I997. lion Hunter Stall Science Web site receives Technicians at Burlington nuclear labs often handle radioactive material. Kessel discovered that he enjoyed teach- mg. praise as a learning tool Kessel publishes work “I like teaching," Kessel said. “I like being in the classroom because it‘s sort of like you‘re on stage.“ 9 k science-based Welt site produced by NCSU Six tntemal sites make up Science Junction: In I982. he was offered a position to Data Depot. Teacher Terminal. Student teach at NCSU. Currently he teaches cre- hopes to give students an opportunity for a Station. NCSU Frontiers. l‘pgrade Route and on sci-fi Web site ative writing and American literature. more hands-on experience. Communications Bridge. Within these areas. And. of course. Kessel teaches science students. both at hotne and in classroom set- 0 An NCSU professor/author’s work finds The Web site. which attracts between fiction/fantasy courses. tings. can participate In experiments With 25,000 and 30.000 listeners a month, with Besides teaching full-time. Kessel is in ——NEll HEIEIII other SCIence Junction users. play arcade its way to the Internet. an age group ranging from l5 to 80 years the midst of writing a new science fiction Staff Wnter style games requmng deCIsions and strategy old. has only been online since March novel called “Soft Upset." he is still in the based on scientific principles. watch brief full~ TflNVtI Joussou I996. However. it already contains 26 process of thinking and researching. He When most adults. young or old. think of motion videos. and scope out the latest hours of audio dramas and hours of dra- suspects the novel will take a couple of their high school biology classroom. they research being done by NCSU scientists. Staff Writer mas from radio's ‘golden age.‘ Dove years to complete. remember waist-high black countertops. "We're trying to make It as interactive as Audio is planning to produce an audio Kessel has already published three other microscope storage cabinets. sinks and posmble." said Park. For example. he Cited an John Kessel Is used to having his audi- book collection of the stories from the novels. They are “The Pure Product." chrome gas fixtures with Bunsen burners experiment titled "Water What-ifs." in which ence read his writings in print. But now Web site in October. and more stories will “Corrupting Dr. Nice." a time-travel cont- attached to the end of rubber hoses. science classes are invited to take water sam- he's getting more attention. and readers. be available on the Web site next year. edy. and “Good News John Park. associate professor of mathemat— ples and measure pH levels. temperature. dis— trotn his writings courtesy of the Internet. From Outer ics and science education at NC. State. would solved Kessel. an English professor at N.(‘. Kessel, who plans to submit more work Space." like the biology students of the next decade to oxygen. nitrates. phosphates and State and an award-Winning author. was to be published online. has been interest- His awards include receiving the Nebula have something else in those classrooms: macroinvertebrate (insect) populations.