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How nuclear dumps are sold said is that it costs Beierle more to generate a kilowatt-hour of electricity than the utility pays him Another project is a pickup truck he has adapted to run on hay wood weeds and other waste products To dramatize the potential Beierle and his brother once drove it from Los Angeles to New York The family business in rural Washington state though may be the best example of knack for juggling interests In two small metal buildings on the outskirts of Prosser Wash (pop 2000) Equipment has managed to serve two unrelated industries: It has fabricated food-processing equipment and it has repackaged liquid radioactive waste from power plants Next: odyssey continues Do Soviets have cruise of their own? LONDON (UPI) The Soviet Union has developed its own probably pirated vmrsion of the US cruise missile jfcd it is expected to enter service in early 1984 the authoritative Defence Review said today Soviet version of the US cruise missile the SSN-X-21 is currenty creating a great deal of concern among decisionmakers in Washington" the periodical said The review is put out by Publishing Co an international authority on military hardware It said the Soviet cruise uses turbofan and microelectric technology which the Soviets have obtained from the One specialist said that meant at least some of the technology must have been obtained clandestinely seen Beierle in action: part of you says you ought to know better about some of the things he tries to tell you But so convincing you find yourself believing him when you know you Although Beierle approaches nuclear waste with an evangelical fervor he is a man of many interests He is a creationist a person who eschews theory of evolution believing instead that the earth and all its life forms were created in much the way the Bible says Creationists believe that the earth came into existence not millions of years ago as evolutionary theory holds but only about 10000 years ago at the most In between efforts to set up nuclear-waste dumps he has led archaeological expeditions to debunk evolutionary theory and to prove creationist views On one such outing Beierle unearthed fossilized tracks that he later wrote lent proof to the notion that giant man and all lived at the same When not trying to establish radioactive-waste burial grounds or excavating for dinosaur tracks Beierle experiments with exotic energy sources He has promoted a gasifier that according to published accounts runs' on a secret material that converts cherry pits cornstalks wood chips rubber tires paper sacks and chicken manure into synthetic gas Beierle eagerly shows off the gasifier to interested parties saying that it powers a generator that gives him excess electricity to sell back to the local power company The utility district said that it did purchase power from Beierle's generator but only rarely A spokesman for the district said that the generator usually operated only when Beierle was showing it to a visitor The reason for the infrequent operation the spokesman people you are interviewing project it" Indeed it is likely that from point of view he has been doing this nation a major favor The kind of low-level nuclear trash he deals with is piling up at an ever-increasing rate all over the country and it has to be put somewhere If Beierle and other entrepreneurs find the sites they might ask who will? Not the federal government for sure It abandoned that responsibility years ago A one-time nuclear reactor operator from rural Washington state Fred Beierle has gone a long way on his ability to persuade and his knack for selfpromotion Operating out of Prosser a small town in the agriculturally rich Yakima Valley he has made a career out of showing up in other small towns across the country quoting from the Scriptures in the same breath with pronouncements on the wonders of nuclear energy in an effort to persuade locals to let him bury nuclear waste To those who have witnessed Fred Beierle over the years the effect has been nothing less than mesmerizing Says a businessman in a small Texas town where Beierle once tried to establish a nuclear-waste dump: he just walked in this door and I knew nothing at all about him I would think he was a preacher When you talked to him for long you were just made to feel he was a man of God that he was standing there right at the foot of the Says a state regulatory-agency official who has known Beierle for years: really fools people funny-looking with freckles all over his face He seem at first very impressive But then he (starts talking and you listen Very few people can talk as well asv Fred Says a Kansas man who has 2A King port Times-News Wednesday November 16 1983 Briefly in Kingsport Scott elected head of park association HA Scott has been elected president of the Bays Mountain Park Association by the board of directors Scott a leader in the formation of the Kingsport city park is a former president of the association and former member of the Bays Mountain Park Commission Scott replaces A1 Voskin who became president of the association when former President Dick Poduska resigned because of a job transfer Voskin has recently taken a work assignment in Japan Final portion of US Highway 23 to open The final portion of US Highway 23 around Kingsport will officially open Thursday with 3 pm ribbon cutting ceremonies near the on ramp from West Stone Drive Tennessee Transportation Commissioner Robert Farris will shear the ribbon which will open the four-lane highway from Stone Drive to the Virginia state line Kingsport Chamber of Commerce President Frank Brogden said the opening of the route will add to the economic development of the Tri-City region by improving a major transportation route to companies and businesses in the area Salvation Army to serve turkey dinner The Kingsport Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held at the Salvation Army 505 Dale St Tuesday Nov 22 at noon The dinner is open for residents who are alone needy and hungry Salvation Army Capt Thompson will host the meal The dinner will consist of turkey dressing whipped potatoes green beans gravy dessert coffee or fruit punch Kingsport: Tax man cometh Nov 22 Board of Mayor and Aldermen adjourned last night's regularly scheduled session until 4:30 pm Tuesday Nov 22 to then set the property tax rate for this year's tax collections Council expects to receive the necessary information telling the total evaluation of city property the day before the meeting Tax collection will begin Dec 1 a one-month delay caused by this year's reassessment of all Sullivan County property AFG lease gets first OK Kingsport city council last night approved on first reading an ordinance authorizing the lease of about 10 acres in Kingsport Regional Service Park to Sullivan County Industrial Development Board The county board has agreed to issue $65 million in bonds to finance start-up operations at an AFG Industries-Chronar Corp plant which will produce photovoltaic cells The county board will sub lease the plant to the partnership The new high-tech industry is expected to initially employ about 110 workers in the region Half-day classes today and tomorrow JOHNSON CITY Elementary school students in Johnson City will only attend a half day of classes today and tomorrow so teachers and parents can conduct conferences both afternoons Students will be dismissed at noon nd lunch will not be served High school and junior high school students will attend classes as usual Keystone School teacher honored JOHNSON CITY Carol Kiener a fourth grade teacher at Keystone School was honored last night as conservation teacher of the year by the Washington County Soil Conservation District The selection was based on classroom and field trip activities Mrs Kiener provided her students last spring In class students explored the eco system they would eventually encounter during their overnight trip to Buffalo Mountain Methodist Camp The students were assisted by area professionals working in soil conservation and wildlife management Continued from page 1 For Fredrick Beierle the man who sold Sheffield on the idea of the waste dump in the first place the escaping radioactivity poses no problem at all Soon after the first waste-disposal trucks rolled into Sheffield he sold out and moved on to ply his trade in similar pastures near similar small towns The story of Beierle a 52-year-old father of six the supersalesman of the low-level nuclear-waste business is very much a part of the story of how radioactive waste has been managed in the United States for the last 20 years For contrary to the repeated claims of government and industry radioactive-waste management is not a carefully controlled tightly structured business run on proven scientific principles and held in check by responsible political decision-making and thoughtfully conceived regulations Far from it Rather as was reported in the preceding article it is a world in which scientific assumptions turn out to be wrong time after time a world in which politics are so divisive that unsound and temporary waste-management programs are implemented a world in which no one really knows how much nuclear trash is produced It is a world in which regulatory authority is fractured a world in which technologies fail more often than they work It is in this world that atomic garbage dumps are established by a spellbinding salesman who for 20 years has traveled from town to town across rural America peddling the wonders of nuclear cemeteries Fredrick Beierle set up two of the three commercial nuclear-waste burial grounds operating today in the United States in Richland Wash and Barnwell SC (The remaining site at Beatty Nev was established by a company once headed by a business associate of Beierle's) Taken together Richland and Barnwell account for 98 percent of the nuclear waste buried annually at commercial dumps Clearly activities have made him a pivotal figure in the management of low-level nuclear waste But he has received little national publicity He does not testify at congressional hearings delving into the problems of radioactive waste or the lessons that might be learned from the past Repeated efforts by Philadelphia Inquirer reporters to interview him in person or by telephone over the past year have been unsuccessful On one occasion when a reporter telephoned his Prosser Wash office a woman answered who identified herself as Mrs Beierle and said her husband would not answer any questions do not find that publicity with low-level radioactive waste ever comes out the way it is meant to the way we talk to people so our policy is no interviews" she said am Mr wife I have gone through all of these things personally Newspapers per se have such a poor reputation with us that you know it is very difficult for me to even be nice to you on the telephone people twist the words you leave out things just so it comes out the way you want it to come out not the way the PRICES Fly to Colorado with Piedmont Airlines and ski at Vail Breckenridge Copper Mountain Steamboat Springs Aspen or Winter Park Prices start at only $215 per week Colorado Ski Packages Tonr no JTPCSjq induces 7 nights lodging double occupancy andyday lift ticket per person at Steamboat Springs For details call your travel agent or Piedmont 's tour desk toll-free at 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