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"The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey website at http://www.kgs.ku.edu/. All Rights Reserved." [1]
At about the same time, however, the Survey was drawn into what was probably its most visible role ever in state politics. In the mid-1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission announced its intention to locate a nuclear waste-disposal plant in an abandoned salt mine on the edge of the central Kansas town of Lyons. The AEC's intention was to place the waste in canisters and store those canisters in the bedded salt. The work began with several projects designed to show the feasibility of such an approach, and was to be followed with larger amounts of waste. Originally the citizens, and most of the state, seemed to accept the idea as a boon for economic development. Concerns about the location began to surface, however, and they grew with the increased strength of the environmental movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Survey was asked by then-Governor Robert Docking to take a look at the Lyons site, and did so. Though the Survey's report did not criticize the notion of placing waste in bedded salt, it was critical of the Lyons site, particularly because of the possibility of old, unrecorded and unplugged oil and gas wells in the area, thus allowing ground water to move into the mine (Angino, Bayne, and Halepaska, 1972; see also Angino and Hambleton, 1971). The combination of the Survey's report and growing statewide disenchantment with the location eventually convinced the AEC to abandon the project, but during that deliberation the Survey received considerable public exposure and was intimately involved with state and national politics (see Hambleton, 1981).
Perhaps the figure most identified with the Survey's involvement with the Lyons site was William W. Hambleton. The Survey's assistant director from 1956 to 1962, and associate director from 1962 to 1970, Hambleton was a native of Pennsylvania, had an undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall and a master's from Northwestern, and then came to KU to earn a Ph.D. in geology. Hambleton's research interests focused mainly on geophysics and he taught for a time in the KU geology department before joining the Survey. Working with Frank Foley, Hambleton dealt with a continually increasing realm of administration, so that by Foley's retirement in 1970, he was the obvious choice as Foley's replacement. Hambleton was involved with the Survey's study of the Lyons site and was its most visible spokesman during the political debate that revolved around radioactive waste. That identification was strong enough that Hambleton made it an area of expertise and served on national panels and committees that studied radioactive waste well into the late 1970s.