European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday april 9, 1989 licensing of nuclear plants streamlined by commission stateside Washington a the nuclear regulatory commission Hopes its streamlining of inc nuclear licensing process will keep the Industry alive by culling the Lime needed to build a nuclear Power Plant the new licensing procedures approved by the five member commission without dissent on Friday have been under development for More than two years and have been the subject of hearings and briefings. The commission Salt. Utility executives and other analysts said there was no Chance anyone a put Ever build another Plant Wilhour some licensing simplification even Hough no utilities Are close to seeking approval. ,. The procedure Are designed to resolve All major issues before a decision is made to go ahead with a Plant. They provide for Advance approval of Plant de signs and Sites that utilities could designate far in and Vance. Also the commission would go a Long Way toward he much discussed one Slop License by issuing a combined construction permit and operating License. License applicants could still use the old procedure but the commission docs not expect anyone to do so. Is in approval would be Good for 20 years. Without new legislation which the commission has been unable to win the procedure cannot be comply be by a one Slop operation. Commission chairman Lando Zach told reporters he did not think legislation would be necessary now because of he new procedures. Under current Law the commission still will have to hold both a licensing hearing and a hearing after a Plant has been built and before it can be started. The new combined License would be issued Only after safety and site issues such As planning for Emer gency evacuations have been resolved. The Range of issues that could be raised at the second hearing on whether License conditions had been met would be narrowed. At the second hearing issues would be limited to allegations of material and uncork cycled non con for Mance with License conditions or that adequate Protection of the Public is in jeopardy. Failure of state and local governments to cooperate in emergency planning has held up licensing of the completed Shoreham Plant on Long Island in new York and inc Seabrook Plant on the new Hampshire coast. However under the new procedure an applicant would Only have to show a Good Faith Effort to win such cooperation in evacuation planning and hat he plan could work even without that cooperation. These issues arc not even considered under the old procedure until the Plant is finished and the question before the commission is whether to allow operation. Huge Cost escalations in building a drastic reduction in the growth of electricity demand during the past decade and fears generated by the 1979 partial Core meltdown of the three mile Island Plant in Penn Sylvania and other accidents All combined to kill new orders for plants. The Industry now provides is per cent of inc nation s electricity. Anti aids sex Survey to be revised offer Agency is accused of prying Washington a a sex Survey designed to help Stem the spread of inc deadly aids virus must be revised to ensure that the government docs not pry needlessly into americans personal lives. Health Secretary Louis Sullivan has ordered. Ii Edin the advice of budget director Richard Dar Man Sullivan on Friday ordered the Public health service to conduct a thorough review and revision of inc that it is scientifically sound Stive and appropriate to the proper role of had been pressured to act against the sur vey by a few conservative republicans in Congress who have organised letter writing and Telephone campaigns expressing outrage at the Survey proposal Paul Cro a spokesman for rep. William Danny inc scr k-calif., who has been rallying opposition to the Survey said we Hope Secretary Sullivan will Lake it Darman s concerns to heart and put this thing outto pasture where it the proposed project includes a Pilot Survey of 2,300 americans to icam the intimate details of their sexual lives including when they last had sex what they did and whether their partner was a Man or woman. Oiher questions asked about such things As masturbation As Well As Oral and anal sex. A subsequent Survey at an estimated Cost of $15 million would question 20,000 people. Sullivan1 said he Feco Gelms the Survey is needed to but tar understand americans sexual behaviour so health experts can improve Trie sexually transmit cd aids virus. But the Survey should gather Only data which is essential to Public health needs he said. My initial review of the Survey instrument docs indicate to me potential problems with the tone and Content of the questions he said noting it was pre pared before he took Over Ai the department of health and human services in March. Sullivan acted after receiving criticism from Dar Man in a letter thursday. I have a great Deal of difficulty understanding How Many of the questions Are related to essential Public interests the Teller said. The office of management and budget which Dar Mah Heads must approve All government surveys As part of the paperwork reduction act put Only for purposes of reducing burdensome Federal paper work. Citing that Law Darman told Sullivan in the letter that Umb officials do not have the authority at this Point to Stop the proposed study that department said the Survey is intended to pro Duce .1 comprehensive picture of americans sexual behaviour to help health experts better fight the spread of the aids virus and other sexually transmitted Dis eases. Darman said he recognized that need but Asim portent As it is hat is a considerably narrower subject than the More general subject of sexual mores preferences and behaviour patterns in american society while i in no Way question the rights of private researchers to explore this subject 1 do question the selent to which it May be appropriate for ire Public sector to subsidize such research the budget chief said. Nurse testifies she was called too big Providence . Up a Florida nurse has testified that she was lucked out of the nursing pro Gram and humiliated by faculty at Salve Regina col lege because inc was Loo Sharon l. Russell told a . District court jury on thursday that nuns at he roman. Catholic school in Newport told her that they used her to demonstrate the difficulty of caring for fat patients. " sister Maureen mines had me get into a bed to show the class it s difficult to make a bed with an overweight person in it. 1 was embarrassed and humiliated testified Russell who refused to Tell reporters Bow much she weighed but she acknowledged that she was about 200 pounds overweight Russell sued the College and five teachers after she was told in 1985 that she could hot return to finish her senior year. She claims the school violated its implied contract invaded her privacy and caused her emotion Al Russell was accepted into inc nursing program in 1983, and she said that soon afterwards her teachers began making sarcastic comments about her weight. After one class she said an instructor told her there was to uniform to fit her. I was shocked. I did t know How to respond. She said my weight was going o cause problems. She said you la never make it around the bed because you re too big Russell said. Russell did receive a Bachelor s degree in nursing from St. Joseph College in West Hartford conn., in 1987 and works at All children s Hospital in St. Petersburg Fla. Company to cease making boots from elephant skin Nashville Tenn a Acme Boot s $200-a-pair elephant skin boots will gradually vanish from stores because the world s largest Boot maker has dropped the line out of concert Over possible poaching in Africa. Acme based in Clarksville said its Pur chases of african elephant hides made through an importer arc Legal. But special in Terest groups have questioned inc treatment of elephants by others. We have Wen increased concern by Environ mentalists and consumer groups about illegal poaching for tusks not for hides said Bill Whitlock vice president of marketing Ai Acme. They have run ads showing grotesque Pic Tures 1, he said. We thought it Best to disassociate ourselves with it in general even though this involved tusks and not hides crime curbing olympics proposed in los Angeles los Angeles a a Community Leader in los Angeles want to organize a form of olympics for gang members to curtail violence that often occurs during summer. We want to take the uzis and ak-47s out of the hands of the Young members of Pur Community and put shot puts and javelins in their place the Rev. Charles minis said. The games proposed for july 10 through aug. 18, would include academic As Well As athletic events and will be open to contestants aged 12 to is Kli dims events would be organized so shot members of opposing gangs would be on the same teams in an Effort to build tolerance Between rivals mints said. Tomcat delivers trouble to Home of mall Carrier Delray Beach. Fla. A Many postal carriers get accustomed to confronting hostile pets while they make their daily rounds bul they can usually expect peace and quiet at Home. Not so for Bob Walker. His wife Pat opened their front door and he family cat Blondie rushed in with a tomcat hot on her Tail. The walkers tried to whisk the intruder out with a Broom the tomcat responded by Biling Walker on the foot. I m a mailman,1 said Walker now wailing to see whether the eat has rabies i be been bitten. A few times but never in my own House. The walkers called police and firefighters wearing protective gear joined in the Chase. An animal control worker finally removed inc Tom cat. Wendy s ads serve up satisfied Burger eaters Dublin Ohio uple Wendy s old fashioned hamburgers restaurants launches a Cus Tomer testimonial Money Back guarantee Adver Tising Campaign this week. Wendy a the nation s Chain said its commercials will be customized to the Market featuring nearly 400 customers in nearly 100 different markets. The Campaign also will feature the company founder a David Thomas offering Consumers a special Money Back guarantee if they don1 agree that the hamburgers Are inc Best in the business. The Campaign also includes results of a National tracking Survey of 1,500 Consumers can ducted quarterly Over the past two years. The poll found that Wendy s beat Mcdonald s 2-to-l in a taste contest. ,
