Daily Collegian Thursday, Aug. 30, 1984 PSU educator attends meeting in Orient By NAN CRYSTAL ARENS Collegian Staff Writer The University’s director for the Limerick Com munity Education Program was one of two Ameri can nuclear science educators to attend conferences on nuclear energy education in Japan and Korea earlier this month. Lanier H. Schlegel said one conference held in Tokyo, Japan, titled the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy Education, focused on the status of the American nuclear industry and programs to edu cate the American public on nuclear issues. Timothy DeVries, an energy education pro grams consultant from Crystal Lake, 111., was the other American educator who attended the confer ences. “The Japanese were interested in Three Mile Island and the kinds of programs we presented to the community,” Schlegel said. “This was of interest to the Japanese because they don’t have programs of this type.” Forty Japanese, including educators, represen tatives from industry and the government, at tended the conference, Schlegel said. . He said the Japanese seem to accept nuclear power because they recognize the need for electri cal generation, but the public is ignorant about the facts of nuclear science and radiation, Schlegel said. mvinui 3KIKI*: m 111111111 yil? E. Beaver 238-7281 • Large Selection of Frames • Glasses Professionally Selected and Fitted • Reasonable Prices • Repairs & Adjustments ‘ Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00 ' Cart You Keep Up With Rising Education Costs? 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At the conference, Schlegel also discussed his work as a nuclear science educator in Limerick, Pa. near the site of the Limerick nuclear power plant where 200,000 people live within a 10-mile radius of the plant, making good nuclear education especially important. Schlegel said that during part of his presentation he described a program in the Limerick area where radiation detection equipment is made available to nuclear science teachers by the Phila delphia Electric Co. “This raised a lot of eyebrows in Japan,” he added. “The Japanese were surprised that indus try was loaning out $lO,OOO worth of equipment to an individual teacher.” Schlegel also presented nuclear science text books, slides and other educational resources in an ipipipipipipipipipipipipipipipipipipipipipiffip I The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity | | presents the Phi Tau Iron Plan# lit ’ //{? —Swim V 2 mile & ' /7WK Jk* ~ Bike 10 mi,es 4 & —Run 4 miles 4 1 i # Date: Sunday, Sept. 9 10:00 AM 4 4 Registration Sept. 3-7 in Ground It 4 floor HUB or at Phi Tau House ? Held in cooperation with I.C. Light arid I.C. Golden Lager, A the Ski Station and Computer Land of State College Tjf I* BENEFITS EASTER SEALS # t K> t Z TTfVHT 4 v u - 103 Muiii j It’s time. 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Public information of nuclear science and radiation is also almost non existent in Japan, he added. Poor nuclear science education in Japan is partially caused by the poor image of nuclear technology in general, he said. Schlegel said the Japanese word for “radiation” translates to the English equivalent of “nasty.” “The only thing the (Japanese) public knows about atomic energy is the tremendous devasta tion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that’s not a pretty picture,” Schlegel said. He said although most of the Japanese educators thought more public information was needed, government officials were more reluctant to insti tute nuclear science information. The Japanese educators are seeking to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy through educa tion, Schlegel said. Following the, week-long conference in Japan, Schlegel and DeVries attended another week of meetings in Seoul, South Korea. Fifteen educators attended the conference, ti tled the Status of Education on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy in the United States and the Republic of Korea, Schlegel said. Fourteen-year-old Adrian Walton, of Chorlton-dum-Hardy, near Manchester, England, being visited in the hospital by his parents. Adrian was given the heart of a nine-year-old boy on Saturday night by surgeon Magdi Yacoub. UNIVERSITY CALENDAR Thursday, August 30 Microcomputer Information & Support Center, Intel Vendor Day, 1-4 p.m., Room 101 Computer Bldg. University Concert Committee meeting, 6:30 p.m., Room 217 Willard. P.S. Sailing Club meeting, 7 p.m., Room 205 Boucke. Alpha Kappa Psi meeting, 7 p.m., Room 306 Boucke. HUB Craft Centre, Open House, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Room 312 HUB. Come in to the Bookstore on campus and see the Kodak representative for details and examples on September 5!!! 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