ML20010B705
| ML20010B705 | |
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| Site: | 07000474 |
| Issue date: | 07/21/1981 |
| From: | Cvijanovich G UPSALA COLLEGE, EAST ORANGE, NJ |
| To: | Jonathan Brown NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| 19423, NUDOCS 8108170424 | |
| Download: ML20010B705 (2) | |
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Dear Mr. Brown:
i I am sorry for the delay but the pressure of the end of the semester was con-siderable. According to our new program schedule we will no longer offer 2
j Experinental Nuclear Physics. Therefore, Dr. Rodney Felder, President of the College,has requested the removal of the plutonium Pu-Be neutron source from the college premises. I will therefore not reapply for the license.
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The original license was issued February 2,1970 under the number SUM-450, docket number 70-474 for 32 grams of enclosed plutonium Pu-Be neutron source, i
to Professor Hsui Pei Wei, who died in 1970.
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Please advise us as to the necessary legal and other steps to effect the removal j
of the source.
Please send any further correspondence to Mrs. Audrey Rannou, at Upsala College, since I will be on leave of absence for the coming year. Mrs. Rannou can reach me at any time.
Your prompt attention to this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Declining Science Literacy We're in trouble. We-society, scient e, teat hers-are about the two efrects now seem ta he feeding on each other. Super.
to reap a meager lurvest in the coming years. The need for ficially, the current fbcu s on " basics" seems a positis e move, scientifically literate citirens anil tet hnically trained people but unfortunately science generally is not considered as one is at an all-time high and it is pr eilk ied ta continne at this level of the"hasic skith."Thus,in a pers erse way,ihe importan(e in the foreseeable future. An unhkely confhience of events of science in schmil+ which stress basic skills is diminished.
appears to be poised,Imwever, to malermine the usual pro.
Sone observers note that the basic skills 3 tressed in mathe-cesses lay which scientifically literate citiiens and technically matics are often only simple romputat ional skills; quantita-trained persons are educated. llistorically, a s.gnificant tive-thinking skills are rare'y deseloped. A report ("Siience number of persons achieving intermediate ami advanced and 10ngineering IMucation for the 19Ma and lleyoml")
sci:nce degroce entered the tac!dng proft oen. Sudt per w<,
prepa?ed by the Ntional Science Fomelation enrl the !L although they may have had lower salary expet tations, sought partment of Education suggests that t he most likcly cause for intangible, but person.dly important, rew ard3 in other a reas.
the decline in adequate science and mathematics preparation The.ystem seemed to be workahle,esen tbough some detait 4 in high schools is a simrtage of well trained tcat her-brouaht appeared to be in precarious balam e. In recent years im;nt-about by the growirn: disparity hetween salaries inside and tant factors seem to have shif ted at all levels so that the outside of educatime.The theme is familiar because it reflrs ts number of well trained seit nce tea (hers is insuf ficient to rm et the problems already faced by the engineering profession at the need,and the pool of students wlm have the prerequisite the college / university level. In many schoola, sciente and skill to emlurk on science oriented careers has de< reased.
mathematics tenhin; positions nre being filled with under.
For example, the im reased indust rial salary scales hn.ught trained persons, wha probably communicate their uneasinesi about by an acute shortage of en,:ineers has drastically re.
with these subjeds ao their students. Such teachers cannot duced the nmnher of persons waling to undertake advanc ed be expected to chaih-nge Iheir students, to communicate m studies. Thus, although the number of masters and profes-enthusiasm for the subject, to inspire uentive thinking, or to siunal engineering degrees rose by 11% in the la3t decade, t he mount a !fettise arguments to upgrade laboratory facilities, number of doctorates deireased by about ? t% in the s.une and they need continuing education oppor tunities for facuhv periml During Ihis same period, undergraduate enrollma.ts dest loptnent.The support systems w hit h were once avail dde in engineering increased by about lM. The demand for through federal and state funding hase be en curtailed. The qualified enic.eers by indu,try has seriously affected the effect of these developments in secondary schools will uhi.
trathing function in many institutions. The di~ parity betwe en mately be felt at t he on!!egiate les el, imleed, some bra e n! ready academic and imf ust rial salaries has increased -in some sensed the initial effa ts.
stances industrial 8.daries are ha!f again as much as t> pical l#ven enore disturhing is the fact that many students take tra(hers' salaries-to the point where the "adsantages" of no mathenutirs and se ience after their 10t h ycar in sc hool and academic rinployment can no longer offset the realities of thus effectis ely climinate t he possihdity of a rarcer in sciem e economic factors in the mind 4 of m my young people.
or engineering by the age of 16. Such trends will inevitahiv Noncompetitive salarice, are not the only problem con-increase the proportion of the population which i4 scientiti-tributing to a shortage of faculty at the rollege or uniser.sity cally illiterate. The Icvel of s sentific literacy in the general level.The attraction of working with graduate students ami population must remain high because citi7em influence the conducting research in an nt roosphere i f relahve freedom h v regulatory and poh y decision = u his h wt dim tian f or cet been blunted by the instahihty of researt h fumling and entific impiiry and technologi al deselepment in thii rount ry.
problems associated with inadequate and outdated equipment Cititens reap the benetit of science and iet huology: iherrfae and facilities.The shor tage of graduate students and fatulty they need some knowledge in these areas to make inforn.al has tc9dted in unusually heavy tras hing loads in many schools decisions, which makes academic jobs es en less attractis e.
Numerous sugge.tions base been of fered which incorporate l' actors affecting the size of the pool of students who are rational ways to at tack the problems desi rihed lu ie. Ur.mr-qualified to embark on science-oriented careers base been t unately, t he crisia we face is not obs ious to Ihe genend pubiic slowly developing; the result is (Icady apparent now. Since and t herefore it will not stimulate the citizenry to action. On about 1970 there hn heen a tremi toward reducim: high school the contrary, there are too many examples of American graduation retpiirements in science nod mathematics.Today, achievements-Nobel priics, coloral pictures fnnn Saturn, only about one-third of t he high school dist rict s in this rount ry etc.-for the informed public to take discussions sui h a, t his require their graduates to take more t han one year of science seriously.They fail to recogniec hat the persons respon3ibir or mathematiis During the same penod the amount of science for such achievements are cibicalinnal produt ts of an carher and mathematics required for admission to colleges and uni-era. Tragically, the nencral public and many people w ho are versities has been reduced. Various arguments can he in a position to be able to respond do not seem to s ealize that mounted as to whic h of these trends is the prime effect, but we are consuming our seed corn.
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