CHEMISTRY CLUBGOES 
     
    
   
   
    
     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 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     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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     "aflflla nucaup..._ gmas 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
            
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     campaigns. . 
     
    
   
   
    
     type of power plant. 
     
    
   
   
    
     water for the turbines will 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     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‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     'S.U. 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ 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