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lAIUK- jgey altr wv -yf MiMMMmMrwitri By Rick Brand Long bland Lighting Co initiated a 48-hour shutdown of the Shoreham nuclear power plant yesterday to determine what is causing two water level indicators to give different leadings to control room operators Company officials said the shutdown occurred at 9 am and that the planned work can only be done when the reactor is not in operation Charles Fetrone an onsite inspector for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said plant staff feels that an air bubble in one of the lines connected to the water level indicators is cauaing errant readings on one of the instruments in the start-up Fetronesaid 11 important in that it must be fixed but not unusual" Hie problem first surfaced Saturday when the plant experienced a "hot shutdown" after a valve toiled because an air line connected to it broke The valve regulated the amount of water that flowed to the reactor core Wheb the water level dropped to 1755 indies above the fuel core an automatic shutdown occurred within five seconds However one instrument indicated seven to eight minutes before the other gauge that the water had readied that level To find the problem Fetrone said the plant staff will do a "walk down of the That means they will inspect two lines of stainless sted tubing each several hundred feet long to deter-mine whether there are any high or low spots which could allow an air bubble to form He also said they may use handheld ultrasonic equipment to find the source of the air bubble Although NRC inspectors said the plant staff has tentatively ruled out calibration as a cause of the instruments problem LILCO officials said the staff is perform- ing further tests during the shutdown Robert Follard of the Union of Concerned Scientists a generally antinuclear group said "You do see these kind of problems during testing the system Those are not the kind of things that are easily -spotted ahead of Meanwhile a consultant to the state Public Service Commission said that Niagara Mohawk Power Carp will miss by several months its proponed Feb 24 1986 fuel-load date for the Nine Mile Point 2 nuclear power plant Frank Giacdo a consultant hired by the PSC said the delays will push the plant above the current estimate of $535 billion Any cost above $54 billion will have to be absorbed by Niagara Mohawk and its four utility partners rather than be passed on to ratepayers LILCO owns an 18 percent share in the plant While a strong effort is being made to meet the target date for fuel loading it is being slowed by poor labor productivity equipment and pa- perwnrk and emthming engineering ngM Aim do said LILCO officials had no comment 2 Killed in Accident At Construction Site By Frances Gnuidy New York Two workers killed and two others iqjured yesterday at a West Side building site when a 30-foot-high construction elevator they into position slipped from and fell on them police said said the workers were positioning the elevator with a hydraulic jack et the construction site for the Equitable life Assurance Tower West at 787 Seventh Ave near 52nd Street shortly after 2 pm when the structure fell for reasons yet to be determined The building is being erected by Turner Construction IncThe workers are employed by Heydt Construction which ia responsible for the temporary scaffolding outside the building Kevin McCluskey 87 of Brooklyn was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital and suffered massive trauma and multiple fractures according to a police spokesman Thomas 52 ofthe Bronx died at Roosevelt about five hours after the accident from fractures and internal and head injuries The accident the latest of several at construction sites around the city drew Mayor Edward Koch' and Buildings Commissioner Charles 8mith to the scene Smith said that there did not appear to be any construction violations and that all the permits were in order "An inspector was here two weeks ago and again today just before the accident happened and there does not appear to be anything out of Smith said "So far I don't see anything more than a construction accident Turner is one of the best most cautious construction companies in the fimltli Hm wliUnt nt tn ffjpij table building occurred when the men were raising the elevator a "personnel hoist" used to transport workers and equipment and it tipped over "the' same way a car being jacked up might slip off the He added that Koch said there was no indication that the accident was in any way similar to one on May 30 when a 50-ton crane operated by an unlicensed worker toppled at an Upper East Side construction site pinning Brigitte Gerney for six hours She was recently released from Bellevue Hospital after having undergone sev-y oral operations That accident spurred a city check of cranes on construction sites and uncovered a number of violations The two men hurt in the accident were at St Claire's Hospital last night where Cosmo Ursine 47 of Brooklyn was described as in serious condition with a fractured wrist and multiple bruises The other man who suffered a broken ankle was not imp mediately identified In a statement yesterday Joseph Vumbacco a vice president for Turner Construction Cow said "We deeply regret the accident that occurred on West 52nd Street and we extend our deepest sympathies to the families of the work-ers involved Turner is undertaking a thorough investigation of the accident and we will be unable to make a state- meat concerning the accident until we have completed our investigation" nwsifiii mm Elevator Bee in pieces where it fell at the Equitable tower construction site Protests of Mary Faze NCC and some government officials had pressed the school to cancel the play on the grounds that the Obie Awardwinning satire demeaned Car tholidam Further they opposed the staging of such a play at a community college supported with county tax dollars But in a meeting Monday college trustees voted 4-2 to let the show go on Yesterday TJnHtw urid the protesters to begin scrutinising the college by attending August budget gwni and fixture Board of Trustees By Ann Nowak Mitchel Field Nassau County Community College President Sean Fanelli said yesterday that the school remained undaunted by protests its staging of the controversial "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains til For But the head of one of the groups that organised the protest said he thought there would be an effect nev-erthcleM "We wanted to make sure they didn't put on a play like this William Lindner president of the Religious a i and present and former students "If we presented The Best little Whorehouse in which we did two plays ago not saying promoting be explained "Our role as a college is to present ideas even ideas that offend some people If you stop the expression of one idea then where does it end? If we begin to tell students what they can and cant express then academic freedom is Fanelli who was educated at parochial schools said the outcry over the jday "made me stop and think but did not change my conviction about the rights and responsibilities associated with Mdwmic freedom and the First Amendment" flitiialie groups many individuals count the community they live in they don't live in a Iindner said that "the university is the one by allowing the play to be staged "They've been damaged in the qyes of the he said "Now going to much more closely monitor But Fanelli said that the demonstration by 400 pickets outside the theater before Wednesday opening performance "will not force us to take on a censorship role in the The play is scheduled to run for lltTaddecTthat allowing the play to be staged did not mean that the school endorsed its contents The play is a satire about a Catholic nun and her attempts to justify church dogma to 8 Fanelli said be hoped the group budget would not push for cuts solely because students i "to punish the would be punishing Civil Rights said in an interview yesterday "They would have to have learned a lesson from this a very valuable lesson that got to take into ac- i'5 li Vt i A-vC Jt tfl i'I ft -i 2.