Bulk Rate U.S. Postage PAID ff>ermit No.320 Newark, DE. Friday. April6. 1979 By DEBORAH PETIT MIDDLETOWN, Pa.,- With a potential core melt-down now greatly reduced, officials at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor Site are turning their attention to the pro­ blems of cleaning up radioactive substances left by the re­ cent reactor accident. Upon analysis of the extent of damage incurred in the mishap and the level of radioactive contamination left in the reactor, experts will determine the fate of the Three Mile site. An evaluation of the costs involved will leave the officials with the options of either refurbishing or decommissioning the plant. Both of which would require large amounts of time and money. · The projected time for complete decontamination of the reactor now stands at least one to two years. Additional time beyond ~hat estimate would be required to bring the plant back to operational levels. Cost estimates for the refurbishment of the reactor can not be determined from present data. The costs and time involved in decommissioning the site, however, can be more accurately determined from previous studies done by the Nuclear Regulatory Commis­ sion (NRC). Most data points to a dismantling cost estimate of roughly Review photo by Andy Cline 5 percent to 10 percent of the original construction costs. "THEY'VE PUSHED THE PANIC BUTTON as HAROLD DENTON, Director of the NRC's of­ The NRC conducted a study of the Trojan reactor site in far as I'm concerned," Mitzi Krause said of fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, and Oregon and came up with a dismantling cost in 1978 of just the nuclear accident on near by Three Mile NRC spokesman Joseph Fouchard {left) aid- over $42 million to level the plant. Although the Trojan reac­ Island. She and her husband Paul were not ed Metropolitan Edison in controlling the tor is slightly larger than the one on Three Mile Island, the frightened away fro'T' Goldsboro, the town Three Mile Island mis-hap. (Continued on Page 2} nearest the plant. Walden U. Returns Desp~te Faculty Unrest ON THE INSIDE By EILEEN STUDNICKY influence decisions about how faculty could be involved affairs, but since its image Walden University will hold Walden's and similar institu- ·in future rentals by Walden reflects on our image, we classes at Clayton Hall again tions use of campus facilities and similar institutions,the should have a say in whether Three Miles from this summer while the Facul­ were, however, ineffective, Faculty Senate failed to the program operates on our ty Senate remains unresolved said Steinmetz. discuss the report until campus," Weil said. Three Mile Island on whether unaccredited "We complained and we March, said Steinmetz. Although p 1 an s for degree-granting institutions raised hell, but we were The committee found that Walden's return were never Views from residents of Mid- should function on campus. unable to enact a plan that "on paper, Walden appears to cancelled, · Murray said dletown, Po ............... 3 Faculty were outraged last was any better," said be a sound institution," said Walden would have been per­ fall when they learned that Steinmetz. Weil. But actual performance suaded not to return if the Walden, an une.;:credited, Although the committee of Walden students was never committee's findings had doctorates-only school, completed a report in evaluated, he added. been unfavorable. operated on campus last July November on Walden, and "Of course we have no right Cancellation of plans for "Playing A without their having been made recommendations as to to influence Walden's internal (Continued on Poge 18) consulted, said Dr. Suzanne Longshot'' Steinmetz, a Faculty Senate committee chairwoman. Bomb Scare Clears Kirkbride Therapy for accident victim "If it's on camous and it's By KEN MAMMARELLA threat procedure of leaving the suspected Karen Seitz ........... , .. 13 an institution of higher learn­ An alarm clock that was mistaken for a package alone, Armitage said. ing, our approval should be bomb caused the evacuation of Kirkbride Of­ The building was cleared by using the fire asked. People perceive the fice Building Tuesday morning. alarm at 10:30 a.m. program's presence on cam­ The ticking clock, stored in a lumpy While others were leaving the building, Dok­ pus as evidence of our (Facul­ Bookstore plastic bag, was thought to be a ken said she rushed to the restroom to get the ty) approval," said Adjunct bomb by several occupants of the building and items, since the production she needed them DUSC on April13 Academic Affairs Committee Security officers called to the scene. It-was on­ for was the one thing on her mind. However, it member Peter Weil. · was gone. In response to faculty com­ ly innocent material a student needed for a Referendum for new student class. Outside she heard several officers discuss­ LnnUCirnrnent constitution • • ll plaints last fall, Faculty Senate President Ralph Klein Marilyn Dokken, an exchange student from ing a bag, so she told them it belonged to her. charged the committee to Idaho, brought the clock to use as a prop for At first she said she was happy because she develop new criteria and pro­ her television production class. She also had a had found it, but then embarrassed that they cedures for the rental of plate, a letterholder, and apron and some thought it was a bomb. university space and knick-knacks in the bag. "They didn't believe me," she said, until facilities by academic and On the way to her·9:30 a.m. class, she notic­ she exposed the contents of the bag. ed that the clock was ticking loudly, so, not People were then permitted to re-enter the other institutions not af­ building. filiated with the university, wanting to disturb her class, she left the bag in according to Weil. the women's restroom on the second floor of "They kept on talking to me, but how can so­ Walden officials applied for the building. meone say, 'Don't leave alarm clocks in the and were granted permission A student noticed the unusual ticking bathroom'?" Dokken said. to return to the university in package and brought it to a secretary in the The last bomb scare at the university, Ar­ July 1979 while they were on anthropology department on the first floor, mitage said, occurred in October when a campus last summer, said reported Security Investigator Richard Ar­ Security guard found what he thought was a John Murray, director of Con­ mitage. The secretary took the bag to the bomb under a couch in Mechanical Hall. It tinuing Education. building's receiving area and called Security. turned out to be a practice bomb that ROTC Faculty Senate attempts to Neither person followed the standard bomb- had lost. Page 2 • THE REVIEW, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DEL . April6, 1979 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • . .. Three Mile Island • • (Continued from Page 1) the building. The SL-1 plant estimate did not include the was totally decontaminated • ·= cost of the decontamination and decomissioned and is now process. a parking lot, according to : COUNSELING ASSIST ANTS : Predictions suggest that a Bernero. project the size of dismantl­ Whichever route the of­ ing a reactor site will take at ficials eventually decide to least four years to complete. take is not of primary con­ : JOB VACANCIES : "Starting with contamination cern at this time. First, they • • like this at Three Mile Island must cool down the reactor it would take longer," said sufficiently to determine the • • NRC official Robert Bernero. extent of radioactive • • He also said that depending substances present and begin • • on the levels of contamina­ the multipqased decon· = Student Positions as counseling assistants =tion, an alternative would be tamination process. (CA's) are open for 1979-80. The CA's will • considered. " One alternative Ultimately, Bernero said, 1 would be to let the plant sit they hope to reduce the levels : work as paraprofessional counselors and : for awhile to let radioactivity of radioactivity in the air and drop and thereby reduce the fluids to such an extent that it : student development workers. Primary duties : exposure to workers inside will be safe for workers to the containment area.'' enter the contamination area 1 include study skill and career development 1 A similar accident on a where the reactor is housed. smaller scale occured at the "The point of getting men into : assistance, leadership of career exploration, : SL-1 reactor in Idaho in 1961. the containment area is to· Three men were killed, two finish clean up and then 1 and study skills workshops. • from radiation, in the inci­ remove the core; to defuel the dent which broke the coolant reactor. 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