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Battalion/Page 9 April 19, 1982 Nuclear plant fire Doses no danger, NRC official say AGGIES! Douglas Jewelry 10% AGGIE DISCOUNT economic nounced coalition ibed the' ind would n law. iren, D-0 lilar pai ided a s held by ntrols an United Press International SURRY, Va. — No appreci able amounts of radiation escaped in a fire at the Surry nuclear power station, but it will take another day to determine exact levels of radiation leakage, a Nuclear Regulatory Commis sion spokesman said Sunday. No injuries were reported in the Saturday afternoon fire in a storage building. The storage building housed contaminated reactor parts and equipment at the Virginia Electric and Power Company facility 50 miles south east of Richmond. Officials said smoke carried low levels of radiation into the atmosphere and water con taminated in extinguishing the fire ran into the James River, but neither posed any danger. NRC spokesman Ken Clark said the levels of contamination were well within federal safety standards. He said the radioactivity that escaped into the atmosphere was 0.0025 percent of the limit the government considers safe. He said the contaminated water contained .02 percent of the allowable limit of radioactivity. Vepco spokesman Dennis Hedgepeth said the storage building is not connected to the reactor buildings, and neither of the facility’s two reactors was affected. Hedgepeth said Vepco offi cials thirjjk the fire may have been caused by an electric heater used to dry mildly radioactive parts. He said about 30 percent of the storage building was se verely damaged, but no specific damage estimate had been made. ON ALL MERCHANDISE WITH STUDENT ID (Cash Only Please) We reserve the right to limit use of this privilege. Downtown Biyan (212 N. Main) and Culpepper Plaza n m outstam Senate ay tee will hear ictim, assailant often ; response. Paula Hattti ad minis™ would incrti s issued by a strangers to each other [he agency SO [ United Press International imic emergst WASHINGTON — Nearly It also woufo three of every five violent crimes d resource w are committed by people who m that forces! are strangers to their victims, loan low-intf and men are more likely to be idvantaged ffvictims than women, a Justice department study reported Sunday. clutch of W The department’s National s — include Crime Survey reached its con- lavid Pryor ; l dusion by examining data for las Eagletoicjf rape, robbery and assault from f a letter®df 1973 through 1979. It said an leinanding estimated 23.4 million of these emergencyf! crimes were committed in the e made avail'" United States during this period could notot®v —an average of about 3 million re and per year. -oduction-bs The study did not cover mur der and kidnapping. The survey said men were evelopmen 1 three times more likely than jartments 1 women to be victims of violent weekpreda c-ime at t he hands of strangers, ouldbeunlif p sa j c { were more than twice as likely as whites to be rob- ock was f'| bed by strangers, but whites fying befortj were more likely to be victimized ibcomniit® fi; by simple assault. The likelihood licted reco'J 0 f rape by strangers was about 1 the niid-f even for both races, difficult toffl “Americans age 12 and over >f uncertainj were victims of violent crimes by sstic and "1 strangers at an average rate of 20 victimizations per 1,000 peo ple over the 1973-79 period,” the survey said. “Robbery and rape were the two violent crimes most often committed by stran gers.” During tha,t, six-ye^t: period, 59 percent of violent, crimes were by strangers. In rapes and assaults by stran gers, the study said, the typical criminal was a white male over 21 years of age. 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