Friday, May 6, 1983/The Battalion/Page 11
'hoice ‘political’
Nuclear site fought
United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — The
cagan administration is put-
lg politics ahead of the public
est in seeking a site for the
lion’s first high-level nuclear
repository, environmen
ts charge.
Environmental groups, voic-
their concerns in a second
ypfU.S. Energy Department
jings Wednesday, said the
two proposed Utah sites
ould not be considered be-
se they are too close to Ca-
fonlands National Park.
■ William J. Lockhart, a
r (okesman for preservationist
etu -mips trying to block the
T amp, told the federal panel it is
; lv, -»ing too fast in selecting a fin-
resting site for nuclear waste.
:ex ?«The proposed Gibson Dome
amp sites are located about 20
iles northwest of Monticello in
u inijuan County.
tv He said it is probably illegal to
|p public hearings only one
' ve tenth after the date when pub-
1111 : comments were due on
fidelines for site selection. Peo-
oncerned about the issue
more time to respond, he
“The Reagan administration
wants to assure that it will make
the crucial repository decisions
before political power slips from
its grasp in the fall of 1984,” said
Lockhart, representing the Na
tional Parks and Conservation
Association, Friends of the
Earth and Utah Wilderness
Association.
“Under pressure from the
White House, the DOE sees the
public participation require
ments only as a ticket to be pun
ched on the way to picking up
campaign contributions from
the nuclear industry.”
Lockhart called on the DOE
to conduct further hearings af
ter it releases final guidelines for
site selection. If the agency fails
to comply with the request, he
said, it should publicly
announce its decision to decline
further public comment.
Lyle Anderson, a Monticello
attorney who supports the prop
osed site, also was concerned
that the final decision would be
plagued by politics. He said he
feared DOE would listen to peo
ple in populous northern Utah
— “where the votes are” — in
stead of the 1,900 residents of
Monticello.
“The people of Monticello do
not share the views of the pre
servationists, but their voices
cannot be heard above the din,”
Anderson said. “Aesthetic
values seem to be controlling life
and death, health and safety de
cisions.”
He also said the dump would
not affect tourism at the park.
“It would be like another
thing we drive by on the way to
the park — like a concession
stand to the Grand Canyon,”
Anderson said.
In a hearing in Monticello
Tuesday, San Juan County offi
cials said they favored locating
the dump in southeastern Utah
to bolster the area’s depressed
economy.
Environmentalists argued the
drop in tourism would make
matters worse, however. An
ongoing public poll taken at
four of Utah’s national parks
showed 88 percent of those
queried said they would be less
likely to return if a nuclear
dump was located near Canyon-
lands, they said.
oiJying boy’s final wish
e(S to visit Texas uncle
I. United Press International
red PITTSBURGH — His wish
;edioisn’t that big, but for young
|n McClinton, who has been
ng cancer, the trip he will
Saturday will be like a
come true.
Ihe Make-A-Wish Founda-
taker n of Western Pennsylvania
andillSendthe boy, his mother and
araiioter to Midland to visit his un-
shonT,Tom Pitman.
mtman had taken a special
eth's terest in Bryan, whose parents
■ivorced, before moving his
hutBy from the Pittsburgh area.
I two “His (Bryan’s) comment was,
Idret Hit to ride on my uncle’s
icrilx one more time,”’ said Mar-
lark, who in April founded
local chapter of Make-A-
She Bii which is based in Phoenix,
and operates in a dozen
herli
Piggyback rides. Tom al-
t onrt did that when he came over
he house,” said Debbie
linton, who had to quit
i in 1981 after her son was
htiw nosed with neuroblastoma,
s whusually fatal disease in which
nl I: mors grow on the nervous
m.
aceliiTorhis part, Bryan, who turns
er ontheday he leaves for Texas,
s only a “yup” when asked
Be is looking forward to the
t-day trip and an “I don’t
” when quizzed on what he
do in Texas.
or some reason, they were
attracted to each other,
t’s all along wanted to go
n, ” Bryan’s mother said.
k feel he really is going to
fey it down there.”
i“rie’s crazy about dinosaurs
githey say they have dinosaur
prints in a park down there,”
said McClinton, whose family
lives in nearby McKeesport.
McClinton said the family
once considered moving to
Texas but Bryan’s illness pre
vented it. She also had hoped to
take Bryan and his sister, Kris-
teen, 8, on a trip to Texas but
money has been short.
Having Make-A-Wish pay for
the trip was suggested by
Bryan’s doctor, Vincent Albo,
who had been in contact with
Clark.
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Comet to pass
close to Earth
United Press International
PASADENA, Calif. — Sci
entists will have a rare chance
next week to study a recently
discovered comet that is com
ing within the “extremely”
close range of 3 million miles
although it still will be difficult
to see without a telescope.
Scientists at the Jet Prop
ulsion Laboratory said
Wednesday the new comet,
named IRAS-Araki-Alcock
for the satellite and two
amateur astronomers cre
dited with its discovery, will
give them their closest look at
the astronomical phenome
non in two centuries.
It will make its closest
approach to Earth on May 10
— passing about 3.1 million
miles from Earth or about 12
times the distance from Earth
to the moon.
Only one other known
comet — Lexell in 1770 —
came closer to Earth, JPL
spokesman Henry Fuhrmann
said. The only other compara
ble orbit was by Halley’s comet
in the year 1837 and it passed
Earth at about twice the dis
tance of the latest discovery.
“This comet is unusual in
two ways,” Dr. Gerry Neuge-
bauer, principal U.S. investi
gator on the international In
frared Astronomical Satelle
Project (IRAS) said.
“It is the first comet to have
ever been discovered through
infrared radiation — meaning
through heat emissions,”
Neugebauer said. “Secondly,
it is so extremely close to Earth
it gives us a chance to study a
comet really close to us.”
The comet will be difficult
to see without a telescope.
Although the accumulated
brightness of the entire comet
will be equal to the brightest
stars, its light will be diffused
over an area 16 times greater
than the area of the moon.
The new comet was disco
vered simultaneously by two
amateur astronomers in Eng
land and Japan using back
yard telescopes and scientists
monitoring data transmitted
by a sophisticated satellite
telescope launched in January
to map unknown realms of
the universe.
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