The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 9, 1982-Page 3
OECD urges
West to exp
nuclear
PARIS (AP)- Western industrialized
nations risk serious harm to the nuclear
power industry if they continue to shy
away from atomic energy, the 24-nation'
Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development said
yesterday.
It said in its annual report for 1981
that unless governments make a firm
commitment to develop nuclear power
over the next decade the resources of
the nuclear construction and uranium
mining industries will rapidly disperse,
making it more difficult to meet energy
targets in the future.
The report also chided member
governments for backing away from
nuclear energy "even when there are
good economic and technical reasons
for taking the nuclear path."
Concern over safety, location, waste
management and public health remain
leading obstacles to the expanded use of
nuclear energy, the report conceded.
It also said many utilities abandoned
plans for new nuclear reactor plants
power
because of the length of time and size of
the investment needed for licensing and
construction.
Despite the steady growth of the
nuclear industry in some member
countries, the report predicted nuclear
energy growth by the year 2000 will fall
far short or previous targets.
France is ranked first among
Western nuclear consumers with
atomic power providing 38 percent of
its energy needs. Sweden is ranked
second with 1 37 percent nuclear share
followed by Finland with 34 percent and
Switzerland with 29 percent.
The report was prepared by the
Nuclear Energy Agency of the
Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development: The
United States, Western European and
Scandinavian nations, Canada, New
Zealand, Australia, Japan and Turkey
are members of the organization, which
was established in 1961 to coordinate
economic policies and promote growth
of the member states.
'U' hospital psychiatrists
treat "potential risk" infants
DUST FROM THE Union's exhaust system litters a recessed portion of the
roof below MSA's third floor offices. The inset shows a closeup of the dust on
a fourth-floor window ledge.
Union offies 'dusted'
in ventilation accident
By GEORGE ADAMS
Offices on the third and fourth floors
of the Michigan Union were blanketed
with a layer of dust late Wednesday
night - following an accidential
discharge from the building's exhaust
system.
The dust, a gray-brown powdery sub-
stance, apparently started coming
through the exhaust vent on the roof of
the Union at'roughly 11:15 p.m. Wed-
nesday, just as workers were finishing
cleaning the exhaust system's ducts,
which take airborn matter from Union
kitchens and vent it outside.
TO CLEAN the ducts, workers must,
crawl inside them with vacuums and
brooms to sweep them out.
"Someone turned a duct on too
quickly is what it boils down to," said
John Wanzeck, maintenance super-
visor of the Union. "It's no big deal. It
wasa mess and we cleaned it up."
The cleanup, however, lasted until
yesterday afternoon at the Michigan
Student Assembly's third-floor offices,
which were hardest hit by the dust. "I
left here at about 12:15 (a.m.), and
when I came back at ten this morning
(yesterday) they had just finished,"
said MSA secretary Janny Huisman,
who was working late and spotted the
dust coming in through the windows.
MSA TREASURER Jim Flaum was
also in the chambers working when the
dust started coming in. "I noticed some
dust after I had opened the window," he
said. "I continued working, then a few
minutes later I looked dawn and my
whole body was covered with dust."
Ted Palka, owner of the company
that performed the cleaning, said.
yesterday he was "very sorry" that the
incident occurred, and added that he
has "seen hundreds of these things
(ducts), and it's the first time I've ever
seen anything like this."
Palka said the dust was drawn into
the Union's upper floors because of a
difference in air pressure between the
building and the air outside. The low
pressure in the building acted as a
vacuum to draw the material in
through cracks in the windows and
around air conditioning units, he said.
THE EXHAUST system from the kit-
chens was inadequate, according to
Palka. "That's the wrong system," he
said, "it wasn't intended for the pur-
pose they're using it for." Palka said he
and his workers could not turn off the
fan for one of the dust-ladened ducts,
and when they disturbed the dust, it
naturally was drawn outside to the roof.
He also said that Wanzeck didn't know
how to turn the fan off.
"It was extra heavy dirty in that
duct. It hadn't been cleaned in years
and years," Palka said.
Those who were inside the building
when the dust seeped in expressed
some concern for their health. "We're
all breathing this wonderful dust,"
Huisman said, "and who knows what's
in it." Both Huisman and Flaum said
their lungs and throats hurt yesterday
morning, and that they had trouble
waking up.
THE UNIVERSITY'S Department of
Occupational Safety and environmen-
tal Health is analyzing the dust for
possible toxic content and will have the
results of those tests today, according
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child, for example, may reflect feelings
of neglect in his behavior, Solyom saidl.
BY SPOTTING such difficulties in a
parent/child relationship early, he ad-
ded, child abuse often can be preven-
ted.
Solyom said that psychiatric care of
infants has become more available in
the last decade and has emerged, as an
important subfield of child psychiatry.
The University's program has been a
success, officials report. Families
from across the state have participated
in the program, cited as one of the most
comprehensive in the country.
SOLYOM HESITATED, however, to
speculate on how widespread infant
paychiatry will become, but he did say
physicians are becoming more aware
of the field's importance.
"I would not want to propose that>
people seea childpsychiatristyearly as
they do a dentist," he said.
"Pediatricians are more and more
open to discovering changes in
children's mental attitudes, and might
consult a psychiatrist after they see the
children."
The program's most important
message, Solyom stressed, is that
parents must become actively involved
in their child's development.
Doily Photo by DOUG McMAHON
This sleek MG, packed to the hiltth a completeet of golf clubs, sitsready
to roll out at a moment's notice.