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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1981
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Warm spell will stay awhile to honor Ryman
■ ^ A homecoming celebration First runner-up was Miss
Three Mile pushes ads,
then springs new leak
United Press International
HARRISBURG — The oper
ator of the Three Mile Island nuc
lear power station is pushing hard
for public acceptance of its plan to
: restart one of its nuclear reactors
i this year.
In four separate television ads,
f General Public Utilities empha-
| sizes it has “a new management
| team” since the nuclear accident
at Three Mile Island 2V2 years ago,
and that the team can operate the
i plant safely.
But even as General Public Uti-
5 lilies Corp. pushed its television
I advertising campaign, a new leak
spilled contaminated water inside
, the reactor building that was the
■ site of America’s worst nuclear
l accident.
Technicians baited a leak of wa-
; terSatuday from the damaged No.
2 reactor. Lake Barrett, senior
NRC official at the site, said no
radiation was released into the
environment.
Barrett said about 500 gallons of
| water spilled onto the reactor floor
between 5 p.m. Friday and 4:24
a.m. Saturday when the leak was
brought under control. Officials
then canceled plans for an entry
into the contaminated reactor
building.
The Atomic Safety and Licens-
5 ing Board has conducted a year of
hearings into the proposal to re-
f start nuclear reactor Unit No. 1,
twin of the Unit No. 2 involved in
I the 1979 nuclear accident.
| General Public Utilities prop
osed that Unit No. 1 be reopened
1 this fall. It was shut after the acci-
, dent at its twin by order of the
! Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The ads, which began during
the Labor Day weekend and will
continue through September, cost
$55,000 to produce and air, utility
spokesman John Fidler said.
! ‘ The reason we did it was to let
people, specifically people around
TMI, know about the tremendous
amount of study and research that
S is going on before restart,” Fidler
said.
“We are aware people are con
cerned about safety,” he said.
“That’s the big issue. That’s why
we are emphasizing safety in the
spots. ”
He said the ads, one which fea
tures radiologist Jon Shoup assur
ing residents the plant can be op
erated safely, were aired in Har
risburg, Lancaster, Reading, York
and Lebanon.
Although the government has
not decided whether to grant per
mission to operate Unit No. 1, the
ads contain the statement “When
the government approves restart,
we ll be ready to provide electric
ity dependably and reliably. ”
Fidler said the company did not
intend to suggest it believed gov
ernment approval of a restart
proposal was beyond question. He
said the company wanted to con
vey the message it was prepared
should permission be granted.
The licensing board is expected
to make its recommendation on a
restart to the NRC in November.
It is expected the NRC would rule
by the end of the year.
The ads note 1,400 employees
have been working to clean un the
radioactive waste left by the nuc
lear accident at Unit No- 2 and
that 100,000 pages of evidence
were collected in government
hearings on the proposed restart.
“In fact,” the ads say, “TMI has
been studied more thoroughly
than any other nuclear plant in the
country.”
A spokesman for the Three Mile
Island Public Interest Resource
Center, an antinuclear organiza
tion, said it considered the ads a
waste of money.
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Local residents should be feel
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June, July and August in the
Brazos Valley saw average high
temperatures in the low 90s. Last
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“The high humidity may have
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“It’s hard to understand that we
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Sistrunk said last summer’s
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the point of recovery.
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College Station usually average a
wintertime low of 41 degrees. On
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Having enough snow to play in
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day before Thanksgiving this past
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A homecoming celebration
for Miss Texas Sheri Ryman has
been scheduled for Oct. 30 and
31 by the Memorial Student
Center Hospitality Committee,
the sponsors of the Miss Texas
A&M Scholarship Pageant.
Ryman, formerly Miss Texas
A&M University, Saturday was
named fourth runner-up in the
1982 Miss America Pageant.
Elizabeth Ward, represent
ing Arkansas, was named Miss
America at the conclusion of the
televised pageant.
Ward will receive a $20,000
scholarship; Ryman will receive
a $5,000 scholarship for her
fifth-place finish.
First runner-up was Miss
Illinois, Sandra Truitt; second
runner-up was Miss Georgia, "
Kristi Anne Evans and Miss In
diana, Pamela Carlberg was the.',
third runner-up.
During last week’s prelimi-„
naries, Ryman won the talent
See related editorial page 2.
competition and a $2,500 scho-'
larship by performing a gym-
nastics-jazz routine to the mo
tion picture theme “Close En
counters of the Third Kind” —
the same routine she performed
in the Miss Texas Pageant.
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