Stu< oLh ^ Student Counseling etp£in Tuesday, April 22, 2003 SCI|TEC THE BATTALIO Are you a good listener? Do you want to help others? fyduKteeM TtucUd.. .A(l mafiu tuelcme/ Brochure & application - Room 104 of Henderson Hall. For more information call Susan Vavra at 845-4470 ext. 133 or visit www.scs.tamu.edu/emergency/volunteer.asp Reactor leak found in South Texa Boric acid leakage not as severe as 2002 Ohio bread UNIVERSITY SPORTS & FAMILY MEDICINE Christopher W. Miars, D.O. Board Certified in Family Practice Certificate of Added Qualifications in Sports Medicine Subspecialized in sports medicine in addition to traditional family medicine Family Medicine Services • General Medicine • Annual Physicals • Dermatology • Gynecology • Pediatrics • Minor Office Procedures • Minor Emergencies • Office and Hospital care • Same day appointments Sports Medicine Services • Pre-participation Physicals • Sports Injuries • Joint Pain • Therapeutic Injections • Exercise Prescription • Osteopathic Manipulation • Structural Evaluations • Gait Analysis • Management of medical conditions related to sports The Physicians Centre • 3201 University Dr. E. #440 • Bryan,TX 77802 Office: (979) 776-2800 • Fax (979) 776-2805 Ag Class of 1994 By Mark Babineck THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOB FAIR Can you afford not to attend the Brazos Valley Chambers of Commerce, Brazos Valley Workforce Centers, KBTX- TV & Texas A&M sponsored Part-Time/Full-Time Job Fair featuring entry-level to professional job openings? Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I Calling All Job Seekers! Saturday, April 26, 9:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Reed Arena Texas A&M University For more information, Contact: Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce 979-260-5200 Brazos Valley Workforce Center 1-800-386-7200 979-776-7444 HOUSTON — The unusual leak discovered beneath a reactor at the South Texas Project nuclear plant, while a cause for concern, is nothing on the scale of a similar problem being treated at an Ohio reactor, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday. “There’s a huge difference in perspective here” between the South Texas leak, which caused a boric acid accumula tion smaller than an aspirin tablet’s worth of boric acid residue from cooling water, and an accumulation discovered last summer at the Davis-Besse nuclear plant west of Cleveland. “The Davis-Besse problem was with boric acid leakage on top of the reactor head,” said Victor Dricks, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Arlington, Texas. “It was a massive amount of boric acid crystal.” Dricks said employees used shovels and crowbars to remove the residue. “It was that bad, and because it sat on top of the reac tor vessel it had eaten a foot- ball-sized hole in top of the reactor head,” Dricks said. The seepage discovered April 12 at the South Texas Project near Wadsworth, about 70 miles south west of Houston, is different because it occurred on the outside of two instrument guide tubes where they enter the bottom of one of two reactors there. Test results indicate the residue came from reactor coolant fluid, plant officials said, which would be unique for the 69 U.S. nuclear plants like South Texas and Davis-Besse that used pres surized water reactors. “We just haven’t seen this before. Bottom temperatures are (about 40 degrees) cooler than they are at the top,” Dricks said, adding that stress corro sion cracking — if that were the cause — typically occurs at higher temperatures. Dricks added that inspectors found the problem at South Texas while following an inspection order related to the Davis-Besse problem during a routine shut- Coolant fluid leaked at nuclear facllit (To) 25 mi 0 25 km TEXAS South Texas Project nuclear facility Test results on residue founc inside a reactor containmenl building at the South Texas Project nuclear facility indicate it came from reactor coolantk OKLA. 1 N.M. Ba; Wadsworth, Gulf of Mexico TEXAS Austin . 0 250-