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by Kate Dixon U;P.E.|.'s Chemistry Club undertook their first field trip of the year, when on Feb. 29th, the group visited the Point Lepreau Generating Station in New Brunswick. After leaving U.P.E.|. at h:h5 in the morning, the van arrived at the station by ll:00 a.m. . The site of the station is a treed, sparsely settled peninsula which projects »into the Bay of Fundy; a

huge, cylindrical reactor building dominates the site.

' remove spent bundles.

enough to store ten year's worth of used fuel bundles. At that time, either an- other pool will be built, or the fuel will be perma- nently stored elsewhere.

The next major structure. that the group saw was the face of the calandria or the actual reactor. Into the 380 horizontal fuel channels of the calandria, giant fueling machines will push fuel bundles of uranium oxide, and simultaneously These proCesseioccur while the

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The tour began with the storage facilities for the end product of the nuclear process, the spent fuel bay. The water-filled bay, or “swimming pool”, is large

O B,J.ECTIV ITY? Dear Sir, ,

Cn February 28th, the day which marked the beginning of the upcoming Student Union presidential campaigns, the SUN published an article featuring Philip Brown, a candidatefor the position of President, as ; being a former student of Colonel :Grey‘ﬁigh School . This article} however, did not leave it at that. It included a format of his

Point LePreau, H.B.

reactor is “on power”. Throughout the tour, the; guides emphasized the many

— \ ‘ l / '1 From left to right: Darlene McNevin, Geraldine l Johnston, Jeff Szabo, Barbara Foster, Twila Shea, Janet MacKinnon, Dr; L.F. Loucks, Katherine Dixon, Bob Pharoah, Steve Dixon, Peter Wentzell.

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an earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale. The strOngest previous earth-

I quake in geologic history

to occur in this area was, on magnitude 6. The con- 'trol room of the station will monitor every part of the process.- There will be two safety shut-down systems

I in case of an emergency.

The tour took the group

that houses the turbines and generators; this part of\ the plant is essentially no

safety features of the station; different from any other

all the buildings on the site

‘were designed to withstand

policies and_an obviously‘ biased statement regarding his personality qualifi— cations for this position; Also, the qua-be "Ivan Who" in the Rumor Hath It » column and the comment in the article on Rory Beck as being a supporter of Brown are equally biased. Since Brown is a member of the SUN staff, and a recent one at that, the _ Student body, who inci— dently pay for this news:

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paper, can only assume that

the SUN has deteriorated into an instrument of Since the damage is al— ready done, the SUN is obligated to feature an article on Ivan MacArthur, the other presidential candidate, in order to

Euphold the objectivity 'of journalistic standards ,that apply to any news—

paper ._ Yours truly , *

g Ginny Bulger

'THE PROBLEM “W'ITH"‘*PIGS'

Dear Editor, _

PIG 'N WHISTLE FOR SAIE :EH! We decline in attendance at the Pigs, to many, did not come as a surprise.

For one thing, perhaps it is an eloquent testimony of ‘the rejection of the only monotonous social event on the campus.

through the enormous building

Cooling‘

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_ be obtained from the Bay of

Fundy. Environmental studies have shown that a variance in discharged water temperature up to eleven degrees Celsius

will not have a signifi4 cant effect on the wild- life of the Bay. ' The station will have a net output of 630,000 Kw when completed, supplying one third of the energy needs of New Brunswick. The members of the Chem- istry ClUb owe Professor Loucks their thanks for spending his time and his patience to make.the trip to Point Lepreau'a success.

the Pigs bad performance this semester, one is in- clined to think that the is not too sure Whether the Pigs main . purpose should be to pro- vide good entertainment for the» students or a' big revenue source.

‘ Therein lies the problem!

I should imagine that the Student Union cannot make ' the Pigs fulfill both functions -— at least not withthe type of bands I, that play. "

’ Sincerely

Chinedu Ibeanusi‘u'.

n ‘311 Blanchard

KEEP ‘CIMN,

Dear Editor, ‘ .,

This article is bein written to give an opti- mistic .look at questicn "Should CID/N Cmtinue2". ' paring the past two I'havebeen- a devoted "reader of the UPEI Sun Newspaper. ' There are two—articles: which 'I will refer to. » "V