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Measure 14 casts shadow
Trojan closure
worries residents
of nearby town
The shutdown of the Trojan
nuclear power plant near Rainier,
Ore., would halt the state's only
commercial power plant, but for
local residents, the outcome
could be devastating.
Ballot Measure 14. if passed,
would shut down Trojan Dec. 4
until the federal government
licenses a permanent, high-level
radioactive waste repository.
In the town of 2.000. Ballot
Measure 14 supporters say the
shutdown is necessary to halt the
buildup of spent fuel rods on the
plant’s site and avert the increas
ed possibility of an accident oc
curring at the plant.
Opponents of the measure say
revenue from taxes and from the
operation of the plant is necessary
to keep the town’s public services
operating. Many of Rainier's
residents are employed at Trojan,
and they see the closure of the
plant as a ticket to
unemployment.
"I have no qualms about Trojan
being there." said Walt Purer, a
Prescott. Ore.. resident of 66 years
who opposes the continued
operation of Trojan. Furer’s home
is adjacent to the plant boundaries
and is the closest residence to the
power plant.
The plant, which lies around a
bend from his house, goes un
noticed except when the plant
shuts down, sending billowing
clowds of steam from the cooling
tower. Purer said.
What upsets Purer is the fact
that Portland General Electric
representatives told Purer spent
fuel wouldn't be stored at the
plant more than two years when
he sold the company 18 acres for
the 635-acre site, he said.
‘We got along pretty good before Trojan,
and we can do without it just as well. ’
— Walt Furer
PGE, which operates the plant,
has stored the spent fuel rods
from the plant on site for 10 years
and is licensed to store the fuel
there until the year 2003.
In a recent interview. PCE
spokesman Steve Sautter said
P11E had a contract with an East
Coast company to reprocess the
plant's spent fuel, but President
jimmy Carter banned reprocess
ing in 1977. and the spent fuel has
V
remained at Trojan.
“Now the plant has 10 years of
the crap, and they are talking
about another 15." Furer said. He
believes it is inevitable that a
mishap of some sort will happen
— if not in his lifetime, then in
the lifetime of his children,
grandchildren or great
grandchildren.
Furer also believes the measure
will not pass.
share of Trojan tax revenue. For
the 1986-87 school year. Trojan
will pay $3.3 million in school
taxes.
The Eugene Water and Electric
Board, by permanently assigning
its 30 percent of the plant output
to the Bonneville Power Ad
ministration. pays the district
$1,762 million in lieu of taxes
while the BPA pays EWEB’s
bonded indebtedness for con
■fraction of the plant and EWEB's
share of Trojan's operating costs.
If Trojan’s property value were
to drop, the tax burden would
then shift to other property
owners to make up the lost
revenue. If Trojan were assessed
at zero, the school tax rate would
have to rise from $10.40 to $28.05
per $1,000 of assessed property
value to collect the present
7 can see (the measure) bankrupting the
whole area. If that thing passes, you couldn't
give a house away. It's frightening.'
— Borgny Corbett
“People retired on fixed in
comes like us think, ‘Good God,
wo can’t afford the increase' " in
electric costs that opponents of
measure 14 say would occur as a
result of the shutdown.
Furor said he believes many
local residents feel as he does, but
the plant's central role in the
area's economy dictates their ac
tions and their position on the
plant.
"We got along pretty good
before Trojan, and we can do
without it just as well "
September unemployment in
Columbia County, where Trojan
is located, ranked fourth highest
in the state at 10.2 percent.
Trojan employs between 360
and 400 people at the plant year
round with a payroll of more than
$30 million, and another 850 are
hired during the plant's annual
refueling, which adds another
$10 million to the local economy.
In addition. $6 million in taxes
are paid each year to governments
and schools in Columbia County.
The Rainier School District
presently receives the largest
amount of taxes, said Janice
Welter, director of fiscal services
for the Rainier school district.
There would be no way to make
up the revenue paid by EWEB,
which could be “devastating as
far as the school district tax valua
tion goes," Welter said.
The school district, determined
to inform the public of the effect
of Measure 14. passed a resolu
tion against its passage Oct. 6,
said Annetta Hamlik, Rainier
School Board chairperson.
Hamlik. who voted against the
resolution, said the measure is a
touchy issue with few proponents
and many opponents. Ultimately,
voters should make up their own
minds instead of following the
recommendations of others, she
said.
The Rainier City Council
unanimously passed a similar
resolution Oct. 6 against the
passage of Measure 14. said city
council member Borgny Corbett.
“I can see (the measure)
bankrupting the whole area. If
that thing passes, you couldn't
give a house away. It's frighten
ing,” Corbett said. The shutdown
would have a very depressing ef
fect on the area if Trojan reduced
its permanent, full-time person
nel, he added.
Corbett, who was on the city
council when the plant was con
structed, said she initially was op
posed to having a nuclear power
plant built within four miles of
Rainier, but is now satisfied with
the operation of the plant.
"After this long (of operation)
and seeing and knowing people
who work there, 1 suppose I've
been converted,” Corbett said
Similarly, the Rainier Chamber
of Commerce Oct. 7 passed a
unanimous resolution against
Measure 14 identical to the city
council resolution.
"Our official position is pro
position 14 does nothing but shut
down Trojan,” said Steve Peter
son, president of the Rainier
Chamber of Commerce and local
attorney. If the measure passes.
Peterson said he might as well sell
his house and set up practice in
another city because of its finan
cial impact on the town.
The Rainier Rural Fire Protec
tion District receives $357,000 of
its funding from Trojan, which
amounts to 63 percent of its total
budget. It too has gone on the
record as opposing measure 14.
"People don't live in the fear of
Trojan." said Vince Donner.
RRFPD division chief. Instead,
"they are more concerned with
Weyerhaeuser logging trucks”
that race through Highway 30,
which runs through the middle of
Rainier.
Through PGE, the fire district is
able to train officers and attend
schools in case of a nuclear fire,
said Ray McKee, a RRFPD board
member. PGE assists the fire
department in many ways, in
cluding funding the majority of a
bond issue used to construct two
rural fire stations in nearby Fern
Hill and Goble, he said.
“I'll probably lose some
friends” as a result of his position
on measure 14, Furersaid. Hut he
hopes the action will send a clear
signal to the federal government
to speed up the process of finding
a nuclear repository site.
By Stan Nelson
Stan Nelson currently is the
Oregon IJaily Emerald's Universi
ty Affairs reporter. He grew up in
Rainier, near the Trojan plant,
and graduated from Rainier
Union High School.
Photo by Sian Nrlton
Ballot Measure 14, which would shut down the Troian nuclear
power plant, has ignited a battle between supporters, who say they
hope to avert an impending nuclear accident, and opponents, many
of whom depend on Trojan for jobs and local services.
Research
Continued from Page 5
about six weeks.
V.]. Balan, a graduate student
studying biology, had three rab
bits stolen in Sunday's break-in;
however, he does not think that
his work will be hindered by the
loss of the animals, he said.
"A week ago. I had collected
blood that would last me for a
while.” Balan said.
Balan is studying the an
tibodies from a certain fly pro
tein in rabbits. The research that
he has spent about one year on
was almost at an end when the
rabbits were stolen.
' There are a lot of graduate
students who have spent about
three or four years on research
work that has now just gone
down the tube.” Balan said.
Research work may be tem
porarily halted as a result of
Sunday's break-in. but he said it
will not end.
“The fact is that this sort of
terrorism will not stop research
work.” Balan said. "Research
work on animals is necessary.”
By-pass surgery first had been
tested on animals before it was
done on humans. Balan said.
Also, animals are used in
research concerning certain
allergy medicines and aspirin.
"If it is not done on animals,
or if animals could not be used,
testing would have to lie done
on humans.” he said.
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