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Venting of
krypton
gasfrom
Ti~i OKd
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) voted unanimously yesterday to
allow radioatice krypton gas to be vented from the
damaged Three Mile Island reactor containment
building.
A senior staff official said the controlled venting
could begin "by the end of the last week of June."
CHAIRMAN JOHN AHEARNE slated a vote
tomorrow on final guidelines of the order permitting
controlled containment venting and another granting
temporary changes in the reactor license so the
proposed purge can be accomplished.
The draft orders allow both quicker venting of the
57,000 curies of Krypton-85 and larger radiation ex-
posures to persons near the reactor than were en-
visioned in a lengthy briefing for the commissioners
last week.
The new concept is also a departure from the con-
servative, slow venting recommendation made by
the staff in its final environmental analysis issued
late last month. That would have taken 60 days.
Dr. Bernard Snyder, NRC Three Mile Island
program director, conceded the new plan, which
could disperse the krypton into the air in a month or
less, took shape in private discussions during the two
weeks since the environmental statement appeared.
The new plan anticipates venting will begin slowly
and speed up after the containment's krypto concen-
tration is diluted in a couple of weeks.
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Pentagon research
up, but not at 'U'
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"the Mansfield Amendment is now
considered passe."
During the past few years-Pentagon-
supported research has found itself
back in college laboratories again.
University administrators are unable
to give concrete reasons, why the
University has not felt this resurgence
as have its peer institutions, and only
cite the University's "diversity" as a
possible reason.
"WE ARE MORE diversified than
some of our peer institutions in both
sponsors and programs," Cebulski
said.
"They (other universities) don't
always have a choice of sponsors,"
Leach said. If, for instance, a university
is verystrong only in engineering, he
explained, it must rely on selected
sponsors for most of its research, such
as the Department of Defense.
The University, Lesch said, is strong
in many areas and has a larger selec-
tion of sponsors, ranging from the
National Science Foundation to the
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare. HEW is the University's
largest sponsor and funds ap-
proximately $35 million.
ACCORDING TO spokespersons at
the Defense Department, although
research objectives are published, the
department does not actively recruit
researchers. "It could be that in-
dividual researchers have not submit-.
ted propossis to us," said Acting Direc-
tor of Procurements for the Air Force
Office of Scientific Research John Lin-
ter. If few proposals from the Univer-
sity are submitted, he said, few
proposals can be accepted.
Very little of the research conducted
at the University is classified, and that
which is, must first pass a screening
committee. According to Laura
Nowosielski, a student who sat on the
University's Committee on Classified
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Research, only five projects came un-
der the group's scrutiny in 1979
"because they (the military) know the
University has very stringent rules."
The rules are contained in the
University's Policy on Classified
Research. They state the University -
will not accept any project which would
"destroy human life or . . in-
capacitate human beings."
A project must also involve graduate
students, otherwise "it defeats the pur-
pose of the University," Nowosielski
said. This would include, according to
the policy, a project "which limits open
publication of results."
Some faculty members say they feel
although classified research is limited,
the Pentagon should not sponsor any
projects at the University. "The reason
( the Pentagon sponsors pure research)
is to make them look more palatable,"
Mathematics Prof. Art Schwartz said.
"It isn't their function to sponsor basic
research (at universities) - they have
other places to do that."
Despite Schwartz's opposition to the
research, Lesch said increases in the
nation's defense budget cause him to
expect the University's dealingswith Some pig
the Pentagon will increase in upcoming
years. gLassie, a pig trained to perform various tricks at the Brookfield, Illinois
zoo, awaits her next command during a performance last week. The
performing pig is part of an "Animals in Action" show at the zoo.
Common Market says. it Won't
jeopardize PLO autonomy talks
By the Associated Press
Leaders of the European Common
Market have ruled out any Mideast,
move that might jeopardize U.S. efforts
to untangle the issue of Palestinian
autonomy, and sidestepped formal
recognition of the PLO as the authentic
representative of the Palestinians.
A draft of a declaration for the heads
of the nine member governments to
consider at their meeting Thursday and
Friday in Venice, Italy, was read to the
Associated Press yesterday on condition
that extracts not be quoted.
THE GENERAL content of the
declaration suggests the Europeans are
,-rknc -nnatho n i .
* The dispatch of a special mission to
the region to hear the views of all con-
cerned parties, possibly but not
definitely mentioning the Palestine
Liberation Organization. The un-
derlying purpose is to promote an Arab-
European dialogue during what Com-
mon Market leaders think might be a
perilous vacuum period while U.S..
leaders are involved in the presidential
election campaign;
" Reaffirmation of the Common
Market view that the legitimate
aspirations of the Palestinian people
must be realized and that they should
participate in the negotiating process.
A decision on whether the PLO should
be mentioned in this context has yet to
be taken; and,
" Israel's right to exist behind secure
frontiers is reaffirmed.
THE CONTROVERSIAL issue of
Israeli settlements in the West Bank of
the Jordan River was discussed Thur-
sday by Prime Minister Menachem
Begin in an interview on ABC's "Good
Morning America" program broadcast
from Israel by satellite.
Begin called the settlements in the
occupied West Bank "a defense line
against the terrorists who come to kill
our people" and said Israel will, stop
building them after 10 more are com-
pleted.
"The next batch of settlements will
be the last settlements. This is the end
of our settlement policy," Begin said.
Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon,
chief of the settlement program, ex-
plained that Israel had planned to raise
the number of settlements to85 from
the 25 that existed when Begin took of-
fice three years ago.
Responding to Begin's statement,
State Department spokesman Thomas
Reston said in Washington the United
States opposes "unilateral steps on
existing settlements or new settlements
which might undercut" the Palestinian
autonomy negotiations.
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