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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1988
Page
5
Ms. Apter reports 15 workers touched contamination on shoes and 3 on hands after the Oct 26 release at SRP. No one ingested or inhaled. Radiation monitors now operate at the exit and renovation aims to move filters closer to stacks. The release involved plutonium-238 with about one microcurie, far less than a smoke detector, and came from F-Area as part of dual production of plutonium-239 for weapons.
DOE and its contractors focus on planning to do the job right. The Ahearne Committee will externally review the reactors program. Restart targets for P and L Reactors remain uncertain. Savannah River Operations plans to add public affairs staff and simplify public criteria with Westinghouse aiding communications and process upgrades.
Five military astronauts in bulky escape suits prepared to leave the craft seven miles from the pad as weather delays stretched to two hours. Commander Robert L. Gibson, with seven prior postponements, faced another scrub while NASA eyed a last minute save. Cost of a scrub was pegged around 250 000, weather criteria tightened since the Challenger disaster, and blacked out countdown limited liftoff details to nine minutes prior.
South Carolina's unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.6 percent in October after a 4.3 percent September, the Employment Security Commission reported. Seasonal factors, led by declines in trade and tourism, accounted for most of the change, while manufacturing, construction, and transportation and utility jobs posted modest gains.
David predicted the state's jobless rate would hover near 4.5 percent for the remainder of the year. The October rate stood at 5.0 percent in 1987, with 1,458,500 people employed in non agricultural jobs in October, up about 6,000 from September and about 42,000 from October 1.
Charleston's Charleston Museum hosts the seventh annual Winter Conference of the Sea Grant Consortium titled Freshwater Wetlands Wealth Of Wastelands. The daylong program runs Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is free. Call (803) 727 2078 for details.
The forecast calls for clear skies and very cold conditions tonight with a low around 25 to 28 degrees. Tomorrow will be sunny and cool with highs in the mid 50s. Over the next 3 days expect sunny days and clear nights with mid 50s highs and upper 20s to around 30s for lows.
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