THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1978
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Campus Activities
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Tuesday English Department, "Northorp Frye”,
North Texas State University Lab Band, lecture, 2 p.m., 510 Rudder
Arts Committee, Rudder Auditorium, 8 Wednesday
p.m. Dance Arts Society Performance, Forum,
8 p.m.
International Folk Dancers, 7:30 p.m., Iranian Students Association, lawyer
201 MSC speaks on political situation in Iran, 8
p.m., 701 Rudder
Political Forum, “John Hill", 7 p.m., 504 TAMU Scuba Club, 7:30 p.m., 607 Rud-
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Building gets prize
A&M’ new architectural building was named Inc., features an interior courtyard, skylights
as an award winner by an engineering council and precast concrete with a sandblasted ex-
for its innovative design. The building, de- posed aggregate finish,
signed by Datum Structures Engineering,
The Texas A&M University
School of Architecture’s new build
ing has been cited as an award win
ner by the Consulting Engineers
Council of Texas.
The council presented this year’s
Texas Engineering Excellence
Awards to four firms, including
Datum Structures Engineering,
Inc., of Dallas for its design of the
College Station facility.
The Texas Engineering Excel
lence Awards are presented each
year by the council in recognition of
engineering achievements demon
strating the highest degree of merit
land ingenuity in contributing to
technical, economic or social ad
vancement.
The awards were presented Fri
day at the council’s annual awards
luncheon in the Houston Oaks
Hotel. Displays of the award
winning projects Monday began a
tour of five Texas cities which lasts
until Dec. 9.
The Texas A&M building is a
4-story, 102,000-square foot struc
ture, composed primarily of precast
concrete with a sandblasted exposed
aggregate finish.
It features an interior courtyard
on all four stories, extensive use of
skylights and a system of bridges
and cantilevered stairs to traverse
the courtyard.
Exposed concrete was used for
both interiors and exteriors of the
building to reflect permanence and
stability, reduce finishing costs,
provide for low maintenance and
energy requirements and blend
with existing campus structures. It
also was used to create a contem
porary, bold appearance which will
encourage creativity from the occu
pants.
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BUSHTON, Kan. — Union Car
bide Corp. has announced plans to
build the world’s largest liquid
helium plant in this small central
Kansas town and become the largest
supplier of helium by mid-1979.
The $7 million plant will be able
to liquefy 300 million cubic feet of
helium annually, said Robert D.
Kennedy, the president of the
Union Carbide division that will be
operating the plant.
The plant is to be built on land
adjacent to and rented from North
ern Helex Co., a subsidiary of
Northern Natural Gas Co., and will
use crude helium bought from
Northern.
Union Carbide spokesman De-
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"Kadar tickles laughs out
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in this charming story"
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parents, as children
and as grandchildren "
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MN GUAflINO - Daily News
"A delightful Him and an
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Tuesday
April 25
8 p.m.
Rudder Theater
If you see only 1 film
this year it should be
LIES BUY FATHER TOLD ME.
TLies
“Magically created with alt its
charm, poignancy, humor
and heartache. A magnificent
film After you see it, you'll find it
impossible to shake out of
your mind or heart!’
AARON SCH1N01ER-
Family Circle
“LIES MY
FATHER TOLD
ME is a warm
and funny
and
touching
tale!'
JUDITH CRIST -
Saturday Review
“Under
Jan Kadar's sensitive
guidance, this journey
back to lost youth
but touchingly
modestly reveals
people as authentic as
the settings in which
An they are captured.”
AH WELER-NY fiMES
step into
the m/c
nnis Holt said the plant will be
computer-automated, needing only
eight workers. Holt said the plant
will purify and liquefy the helium by
compression and cooling, and will
store the non-flammable, non
explosive and non-toxic product in a
planned 32,000-gallon tank.
Last year Union Carbide built a
helium purification plant with a
daily capacity of 300,000 cubic feet
at Bushton — about 30 miles north
east of Great Bend — and has been
marketing the gaseous helium since.
With the addition of the liquid
helium plant, Holt said, Union Car
bide will become the nation’s lead
ing supplier of helium.
Helium, one of the lightest gases
and difficult to liquefy, is extracted
from supercooled natural gas. About
95 percent of the time, helium is
used in gaseous forms for such
things as a breathing mixture for
deep-sea divers, as pressuring and
purging systems in the space pro
gram, for cooling vacuum surfaces
and as a shielding gas to prevent
fires in certain welding applications.
Laser fusion
breakthrough
sparks hope
United Press International
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — The
successful testing of a powerful laser
may be a breakthrough in develop
ing a virtually inexhaustible energy
source from a chemical found in
seawater, report scientists at Los
Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
“This was a major step toward de
veloping the data we need to ac
complish the laser fusion goal,” said
Jim McNally, associate division
leader of the LASL’s laser division.
The eight-beam carbon dioxide
laser, tested April 12, gave scientists
hope in their work with fusion reac
tion, which can generate energy
from deuterium. Deuterium is an
element found in seawater, and
generated energy from the virtually
inexhaustible matter could answer
much of the world s future energy
needs.
A second phase of testing the de
vice is scheduled within nine
months, when the beam will be fo
cused on a tiny pellet of deuterium
and tritium. Tritium is an element
produced during the fusion reac
tion.
Scientists hope that when the in
tense laser beam is focused on the
tiny fuel pellet, it will be condensed
into extremely dense matter and
will produce a fusion reaction
generating heat. The heat from the
fusion reaction could theoretically
be used to power electrical
generators.
McNally said successful testing of
the device was important because it
will lead to practical experiments to
confirm calculations for creating fu
sion reactions with lasers.
“Until now, we just haven’t had
machines with high enough power
to get the experimental data in hand
to verify the calculations,” he said.
The laser delivered a beam equal
to 15 trillion watts for less than a
billionth of a second — in contrast to
the nation’s total electrical generat
ing capacity of half a trillion watts.
The 15 trillion watt laser is the
prelude to an even more powerful
laser which scientists hope will be a
“break-even” device. In theory, the
break-even device woidd produce
more than enough energy needed to
operate the lasers which bombard
the fuel pellet.
“This machine tested April 12 will
very definitely help us toward de
velopment of a break-even device,’
said McNally. “We are, of course,
cautious and conservative — but the
feeling right now is great. Now we
can get on with the experiments and
get on with the program of achiev
ing successful laser fusion.”
The more powerful laser
machine, expected to be completed
by 1983, will cost an estimated $55
million. Ground was broken last
summer for the device, known as
Antares.