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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1982)
Utilities differ on decisions despite study MotnDaiimg costly, abandonment cheap... SEATTLE (AP) — If work on two nu clear power plants under construction in Washington state resumes after a 20-month delay, the projects could cost an additional $15 billion to finish, a legislative study says The Washington Public Power Supply System, which is building the plants, wants to mothball them until the summer of 1983 Should WPPSS terminate the plants immediately, instead of mothballing them, it will save ratepayers at least $200 million, the study says The Washington Energy Research Center at the University of Washington and Washington State University were authorized by the Legislature last year to study the future of WPPSS plants Nos 4 and 5 There are five segments to the study, the first, released last week, es timated a significantly lower regional energy forecast than utilities predicted i ne second segment of the study in cludes projections of future construction costs of the plants compiled by a panel of construction managers The panel ex amined what it would cost WPPSS to delay construction until 1983 and what it would cost to abandon the plants im mediately The final segments of the report will be released Thursday “If WPPSS delays those two $12 billion plants two years, the study says it can add another $15 billion to their con struction costs," said Terry Husseman, staff director of the Senate Energy Com mittee, who is directing the study "Because of the delay, they (the panel) project there will be added interest costs and it will cost them more to restart the plants.” WPPSS has not seen the report yet and has no comment on it, said Jim Hughes, supply system spokesman The report also states WPPSS overes timated the speed at which it can build the plants if construction is resumed after the mothballing The panel determined the cost for work already completed would total $2 064 billion if the plants are terminated immediately If WPPSS waits until 1983, construction bills would total $2 269 billion PUDs support mothballing, snub study SEATTLE (AP) — Four public utility districts in Washington state have of ficially decided to go along with a plan to mothball two partially completed nuclear power plants The Grant and Douglas county public utility districts voted Monday and the Benton County Public Utility District vot ed Tuesday to participate in the moth balling The Richland City Council Mon day night approved participation in the plan by Richland Electrical, operated by the city The Okanogan County Electric Cooperative, which serves about 1,500 customers in the Methow Valley, voted Mjnday against participating in the mothballing plan Richland Electrical has a 1 965 per cent share of the two nuclear power plants, while the Okanogan co-op owns a 045 percent share of the two nuclear power plants The Benton County and Grant County PUDs each own a five percent share, and Douglas County PUD a 01 percent share The Washington Public Power Supply System is building the two plants, one at the Hanford nuclear reservation and the other at Satsop east of Olympia, for 88 public utility districts In Oregon, the Drain City Council vot ed against mothballing The city-owned utility, which serves 620 customers, owns 067 percent of the projects The plants have been on hold since last fall when New York money markets refused to loan more money to continue construction and serious questions were raised about whether the electricity from the plants would be needed Three private utilities and 12 large industrial firms, mostly aluminum com panies, have agreed in principle to par ticipate in the mothballing but the details of their participation have yet to be ham mered out. If the mothballing plan fails, the supply system will have no choice but to aban don the plants Outright termination would cost between $335 million and $800 million and more than $2 billion worth of bonds would have to be paid off Dropout— Continued from Page 12 tries to help students with per sonal problems Meanwhile, as the University scrambles to increase the re tention rate of its freshmen, many colleges around the country also are experiencing high attrition rates, he says The problem actually began in the late 1960s when colleges went through an "explosion of growth with enrollment in creasing up to 50 percent in 10 years, Lobisser says Colieges weren't concerned with attrition and retention levels then, he says Institutions spent millions and millions of dollars to build facilities to get ready for the unlimited horizon of students They were caught off guard when the student body sudden ly began to diminish," Lobisser says To complicate the attrition problem, the pool of Oregon high school graduates the University recruits from will steadily diminish through 1985 There's also been an increased effort by out-of-state recruiters to attract Oregon students to their campuses, he says Yet the administrative em phasis on retention is more than a matter of keeping bodies around the University,'' Lobisser says He says there's a new consciousness" among the adminstration to offer sup port services to students who have invested time and money into a four-year education The academic advising office is located in Room 164 Oregon Hall No appointment is neces sary Office hours are from 10 a m to 5 p.m Monday through Friday The counseling center is located in 311 Susan Campbell Hall Students are requested to schedule appointments CASH For Textbooks Mon.-Fri. 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