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Iraq resumes blitz
of Iranian targets,
damages tanker
*q
resumed its aerial blitz of Iranian oil
targets Sunday, severely damaging a
Liberian-flagged supertanker. Two
crewmen were reported killed and
four others missing in the attack.
An Iranian surface-to-surface
missile exploded in Baghdad, the
Iraqi capital, as Iran retaliated for
the attacK on tankers.
Two Exocet missiles from Iraqi
jets crashed into the engine room of
the 239,435-ton Rova, setting the
ship ablaze, according to gulf-based
shipping sources.
It was one of three raids an
nounced by Iraq against tankers
along the Iranian coast since Satur
day morning.
Shipping sources identified one of
the three targets as the Merlin, a
215,925-ton Cypriot-flag tanker un
der charter to Iran. An Exocet mis
sile crashed into the ship but did not
explode and damage was minor,
they said. The unexploded missile
was still aboard.
The identity of the third ship was
not known, the sources said.
Both Baghdad and Tehran re
ported that a long-range Iranian
missile was fired into the Iraqi capital
overnight but disagreed where it hit.
Iran claimed the missile struck a ma
jor military garrison, while Iraa said
it landed in a residential area, killing
“numerous” civilians. No figures
were given.
The attack on Baghdad was the
first since two of the projectiles,
lieved to be Soviet-designed Soii
Bs, hit the city of 4 million last Mot
day.
In other developments, a con™
of four U.S. reflagged Kuwaititai
ers was moving north up the Pens
Gulf under U.S. Navy escort, ih
11 th since America began theoptn
tions in mid-July.
A U.S. spokesman said the cono
had passed the Strait of Hormui!
the gulfs southern tip withoutino
dent, and other sources reported
was off the United Arab Emirate
coast at midday.
The convoy included theoiltani
ers Sea Isle City and Ocean Gti
81,283 and 79,999 tons respective
and the gas carriers Gas King
Gas Princess, both 46,723 tons.
They were escorted by four l.
missile frigates and the 8,600-t!
amphibious landing dock ik?
Mount Vernon, enteringthe
the first time.
Another U.S. Navy ship,simikt
the Mount Vernon, was sailings
the convoy. Although witnem
could not immediately identifyitt
spokesman for the U.S. forcessaidi
may have been the Raleigh, anotk
landing ship.
The Raleigh’s hospital unit n
caring for four Iranians wounded
Thursday’s clash between U3. Id
copter gunships and three to
Revolutionary Guard
the northern gulf.
Human fire detectors
at nuclear power plon
cause experts conceu
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) —
Donna Vohnoutka passes her hours
at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant
fighting the boredom that comes
with the job of staring into space to
see if a fire will erupt.
Vohnoutka, 30, is among dozens
of people at Pilgrim who have been
needea to do what machines take
care of in other plants. For 20 hours
a week she watches for sparks or
smoke because technical problems
and flaws in the fire protection sys
tem require human stand-ins.
“Basically, we play human smoke
detectors,” Vohnoutka said. “We
make sure everything’s OK. We rove
or sit in a room for an hour. . . It’s
pretty simple. It’s pretty basic. It’s
pretty boring.”
Fire watchers must be on full alert
to earn their $6-an-hour wage. Dis
tractions like eating, reading or lis
tening to the radio are prohibited
while watching for something to
happen, workers say.
“I sing to myself,” Vohnoutka said
in a recent interview.
Fire watchers are used occasion
ally at other nuclear power plants,
experts say. But more have have
been employed at Pilgrim than most
other plants since 1985, when prob
lems with malfunctionirij
and poor management began
troubles shut down the 15-year-
plant in April 1986.
Robert Pollard, a former Nud
Regulatory Commission official
developed fire protection guidffl
for nuclear plants after the 197ii
at the Brown’s Ferry reactorin.l)
bama, said Boston Edison appeani
have the w'rong attitude totW
fire watchers.
“This is a temporary measurer
tended to be taken infrequtui
said Pollard, now with the Unioi
Concerned Scientists in Washings
“My experience is, they're using;
watchers at Pilgrim with apparel
little effort to correct the si®
that required them in the 6
place.”
Allen Blough of the NRC,»i*|
overseeing the inspection ofi
provements at Pilgrim, agreerH
the number of Fire watchers2-1
grim is remarkable enough loci
concern.
John Fidler, spokesman for5|
ton Edison Co., the plant's
said the only fire ever to occurul
grim was in a shack outsidethepif
and it was quickly put out.
DOE studies salt tunnels
as nuclear waste dumps
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — In a
year, if everything goes as planned,
the first truckload of nuclear gar
bage will arrive for burial at the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near
here.
Workers spent the past 18 months
readying the $2.1 billion facility for
radioactive waste generated by de
fense projects.
By the time workers store the first
barrels and canisters containing con
taminated lab coats, test tubes, ma
chine tools and other articles in the
salt tunnels, officials hope to be sure
the waste will pose no danger for
10,000 years.
They say they’re almost certain al
ready. WIPP managers say the salt
formation in which the waste will be
buried is 225 million years old. They
figure that if the formation has
lasted that long, it’ll last another
10,000 years.
The U.S. Department of Energy
has stressed that WIPP is primarily a
laboratory and secondarily a waste
disposal site.
“When you try to tell people
what’s going to happen 10,000 years
hence, it’s hard to earn their confi
dence unless we’ve tested adequate
ly,” said Robert Neill, a supervisor
with the state’s Environmental Eval
uation Group, an independent state
agency funded by the DOE to mon
itor the repository’s development.
Sandia National Laboratories, in
an attempt to predict what will hap
pen in the repository during the
next 10,000 years, has been per
forming experiments to determine
exactly how the salt tunnels react to
pressures so far underground com
bined with the heat emitted by radio
active waste.
Wendell Weart, senior project
manager for Sandia, saidsall-'l
able like Sillv Putty.
“The walls, ceilings and floa-J
gradually moving together s
you can’t perceive it,” Weart£ : J
DOE project supervisorJadf
man said, “In less than 100#|
predict the floors, ceilings anil
will come together and conf
encapsulate the drums."
Fire chief
cites powe
of powdef
FORT WAYNE, Ind.
The fire chief in this city
powder to water for puttinj
fires.
Chief Ronald Brown, ^
been a firefighter for
and head of the local depart 1 *
for three years, says not nj'
powder cheaper than water
also has “five times the
guishing power of wateranj*
far less damage than water
The department respo» ;
about 245 tires each year,aj*
40-year-old fire chief f
antees” that in his city OOp 1 *
of the fires can be dealt f 1 *
powder.
The chief admits that
won’t put out all fires, bti
will water.” Powder is -.
mainly against fires in ►
no higher than two stories *
must be applied direedy 1
flames, he says. ,