European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Three mile Island cleanup comes to a virtual standstill As experts Ponder next step the water is pumped from the containment through Niters to remove Large particles and into a holding the water then passes the water is stored in through a series of Ion exchanging inorganic zeolite and organic resin liners housed in 55 gallon stainless steel Large pending final ii would still contain trivium and traces of other radioactive contaminants How radioactive reactor water might be purified the containment building sump is filled wittier feet of highly radioactive water spilled during the Accident in March preliminary rough and Fine Recycle do charge damaged reactor Core submerged containing an inorganic Ion Exchange medium final of organic Ion engineers entering contaminated containment up by Richard Severo new York times there is a great Deal of Hustle and but in the Gray chill of a Winters nothing is really happening at three mile uniformed guards Are Busy with Park ing lots tickets Are issued to cars improperly and platoons of workers in hard hats show up promptly for their scheduled in the bitter tourists shiver on the adjacent Banks of the Susquehanna their cameras recording the Stark architecture an entire nation knows Only too Well the four huge Cooling towers of the Power Plant that has become the Symbol of nuclear everybody agrees that something ought to be but they do not agree on what or How or where or in the cleanup of the crippled three mile Island 2 nuclear Power Plant has come to a virtual a Complex knot of envy procedural and emotional issues surrounds the question of what to do with Between and Gallons of highly radioactive water that flooded the sump and basement of Tim 2s containment building 20 months internal systems of the Plant Are still leaking into the sump at the rate of on tenth of a gallon a the water in the containment building is now eight and a half feet deep and is rising by about an Inch every the water is Only one legacy of the Accident that be Gan at 4 on March but there is agreement that it is the most important Issue of the clearly More pressing than the question of whether Tim 2 will Ever run until the water is nothing else can be done nor is it yet known what will be left to although the company has calculated the Bill for cleanup and repair will approximate billion in 1980 there is no Agenda for restarting unit the cleanup of which would be Complete with the removal of the damaged company officials originally hoped they could remove the Core by but have moved it Back to 1985 and say it May be delayed even in addition to replacing damaged machined parts in Side the reactor the estimated million would also go for replacing All the wiring in the modify ing the control room to make it less confusing to opera tors and replacing a company spokesman called the million Only a Ballpark estimate because the at has no specific knowledge on what damage has been done to the inside of the reactor Robert a former reactor safety Engineer who is now a nuclear safety specialist with the Union of concerned has his own Ballpark estimates As to damage and he thinks that the final Cost of the clean up will be a multiple of billion and the reactor vessel will never be used but what is Clear is that the cleanup of the site and restoration of Tim 2 will be measured in years and in huge sums of nowhere in the world has a Core Ever been damaged As severely As this one said although neither he nor anyone else has yet seen what lies inside the reactor he suspects that once the head of the reactor is taken the Core will be found to be damaged beyond any repair that is financially he is Basing his speculation on the enormous heat that was measured in the Core during the Accident rising at one Point and place to degrees but the Core is the last thing that is going to be he first they have to Deal with the water in the containment pollards priority is shared by the company that frequently disagrees with there is no question that the water is the most significant problem we Are facing said Jack the Engineer in charge of the Tim 2 recovery estimate of the contaminated water is Gallons less than that of the nuclear regulatory commission but he says that if you have an Alligator in your base ment it Doest matter whether it is six feet Long or seven feet Devine and his associates feel that the Best thing to do is to filter the water through a series of devices called a submerged demine Walizer Robert chief operating officer at estimates that the company has already spent around million to install such a designed after consulting with the nuclear regulatory although the commission has not yet Given the company permission to use the the submerged demine Walizer system employs an inorganic Ion Exchange and certain Man made organic which Are also Ion these materials will strip away the radioactive such As cerium and from the water soluble compounds in which they Are now and concentrate those elements in the demine Walizer much As a Home water softener removes the Calcium from Dis solved Calcium compounds that plug the water contains a spectrum of radioactive elements with a Gross contamination of 200 Micro curies per Milli which Devine Calls a pretty hefty the Prin Cipal radioactive ingredients Are cerium which accounts for 156 Micro curies per Millilitre and cerium which accounts for 26 Micro curies per there Are also radioactive isotopes sometimes Sev eral of americium and in the water contains a radioactive form of Hydrogen with a Hal life of around 12 which easily combines with oxygen to form the Ion exchangers cannot Tell water made with tritium from any other nor can they remove once the water got As clean As the system could get metropolitan Edison would store it in two recently installed steel each with a capacity of asked just How clean the water would a company spokesman said that remaining cerium for would have a contamination Factor of Only Nan curies per the company feels that the water ultimately would be clean enough to discharge it gradually into the Susque Hanna and regards this As a practical disposal Arnold said the company will make no for Mal proposal to the nuclear regulatory commission for ultimate disposal of the water until some who live near the Plant do not regard the pro posed solution As practical at it is very Nice to talk about cleaning up the said Jean counsel to the Susquehanna Valley Alli a group of Pennsylvania residents concerned about the Public health problems that May be associated with the Tim the problem is that when the water is run through those the radioactive wastes become extremely concentrated and in the the radioactivity is moved outside of the containment building and it will be in canisters that May leak on an Island that is in the Middle of our drinking Kohr says that radioactivity has been found in sumps near where the canisters used by the company in a Simi Lar cleanup Are and she suspects they Are until they find a Way to get the concentrated a Dirac Tiv Erastes off the our position is that they should do Kohr she agrees with Howe that it would be unwise to leave the water in the containment but they have got to work out this institutional impasse bet Wien the department of Energy and the nuclear regulatory commission and there is a policy that Doe should not handle anything but military Donald a member of the Tim program office at the nuclear regulatory said the commission shared the Susquehanna Valley alliances concern about storing highly radioactive resins on three mile but he warned it would be premature to say that they metropolitan Edison Are going to get the godhead to use their we have been urging the department of Energy to take Possession of the wastes that would accrue in the proposed Brinkman but they have not responded to us As at the department of George Cun assistant Secretary for nuclear said the department wanted to make certain that the resins contemplated for use would not cause a rup Ture of containers within a few asked if he would have to get the permission of con Gress in order to participate in the he replied permission is a stronger word than i would it would certainly involve their the nation has Michael Filerman to thank or blame for nighttime to soap a by Jerry Buck associated press Michael Filerman spent five years pre siding Over lbs daytime soap now he is the Man responsible for the explosion of nighttime Filerman developed Dallas with creator David and at Lorimar productions in los an Geles he is the co executive producer of knots Landing and secrets of Midland Heights on and Flamingo when the networks saw that this form was successful they began coming to us and we want to get on the says Filer the Only primetime soap opera that has escaped personal touch is abcs dynasty prior to the Success of the networks had made several attempts at nighttime soap lbs tried with sons and daughters in 1974 and the most successful of these was abcs Peyton a Sud ser that ran for five years in the up to three times a i think part of the Success of Dallas is that its larger than says sons and daughters was a very Middle class show and you  take As much License with the stories you were you  have As with and i think part of the Success of Dallas is not Only that larger Hanife Quality but the youve got the Beautiful Beautiful and All the toys that go with i think that very much and it came along at a Good times Are you cant afford to go out and see a movie every so people kind of liked looking at the Glamor and the wealth of the and the knowledge that for All their Money and Power theres not a lot of happiness in that according to the Public finally grew tired of the cop i think there tired of knowing How its going to seeing car helicopter supposedly cute repartee Between two goo looking he says the audience is interested in character rela what goes on Between people and among peo and not knowing How its going to end or How its going to people on serialized dramas their attitudes their characters their relation ships and i think people Are finding that a Little More in not saying that it mirrors its drama and dramas not real its and i think in these times we need a Little fantasy in our i think that has a lot to do with the Dallas has come under attack from some for its sexual but Filerman says such shows simply reflect contemporary sexual attitudes Between men and were living in a More permissive he Filerman that the shows Are not so much permissive As they Are i think theres a lot of Romance in says Filer certainly theres but theres Fidelity in a lot of other i Joan Bette Barbara All these wonderful stars of the 30s and they made their reputations in movies about just the kinds of things were talking about we Deal with the seven deadly but i think we Deal with greed As Well As All the things that we sitting at Home like to fantasize he and when people take them too Ive got to say its their we feel were providing the audience with a Little bit of escapist you cant take these shows i if you then youre in bigger trouble than we Filerman grew up in Chicago and got his degree in communications from the University of he was working at the Commerce Clearing House briefing Law his life changed when he joined the army Reserve and was assigned to the psycho logical warfare i had my degree and i wanted to get into he i didst want to go to some Small i wanted to work in my and i got i met this Guy in the army that Guy in the army Reserve was named Fred Silver and he had a Job at he got Filerman a Job at the and when he went to new York to join Filerman took Over his after a few years Silverman asked him to come to new Filerman said he said no a second the truth was he was afraid to leave the third time Silverman called and told if you dont accept this time you should see a so he moved to new York and eventually became head of daytime programming for theres where he spent All that time studying soap Filerman worked for several other production Compa Nies in Hollywood before ending up at Lorimar in one of the first things he did was develop Filerman agrees that the development of the primetime soap opera has about reached its the next step is and Filerman already has himself covered on he has a series in development that pokes fun at the night time shows the Way soap does at the daytime a is asked if he watches to when he goes Home at he sighs and i read that what i Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 13