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thelantern ‘Sully’ assumes veteran responsibilities No. 1 Buckeyes remain unbeaten by leaning on freshman during crunch time Tra vis Koze k For The Lantern kozek.2@osu.edu With the score tied, 17 seconds to play, and a No. 1 ranking and unblemished record at stake, most teams in college basketball would turn to their savvy veteran to deliver the win. Not Ohio State. When the Buckeyes’ perfect season was in jeopardy against Northwestern on Saturday night it was freshman forward Jared Sullinger who was called on to lead his team to victory. “As soon as we got the steal, I looked up and there was 15 seconds on the shot clock,” senior forward David Lighty said. “Coach (Thad Matta) kind of looked at me and I said, ‘Keep going, keep going,’ and they had the play set up for us, and we just ran it right then and there and it worked to perfection.” “Perfection,” in this case, meant finding Sullinger in the post, where he was able to draw a foul and drain one of his two free throws to secure the nerveracking 58-57 win. Despite Sullinger’s relative inexperience at the collegiate level, his teammates said they have total confidence in his ability to deliver. “That’s a play we like to go to, throw it to him
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Freshman forward Deshaun Thomas hasn’t been shy about shooting the basketball this season.
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OSU performs 1st U.S. implant of device to fight sleep apnea
Cody Cou sino / Asst. multimedia editor
Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger (0) goes over Northwestern center Luka Mirkovic (12) during the first half of an NCAA basketball game between the Buckeyes and the Wildcats held at Welsh-R yan Arena in Evanston, Ill. on Saturday. OSU won 58-57.
Food galore The Pakistani American Student Association performs cultural dances as thousands of Ohio State students pack into the Archie Griffin Grand Ballroom in the Ohio Union on Friday. The performance was part of the annual ‘Taste of OSU’ event, in which student groups representing a wide range of countries serve authentic food from their native regions. Check out the story online.
Adam ha wkins Lantern reporter hawkins.326@osu.edu Ohio State doctors performed the first implant of a device used to combat sleep apnea in the United States on Jan. 21. The device, known as the RespiCardia System, is used to treat central sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that limits a person’s breathing while he or she is asleep. Dr. Ralph Augostini, an electrophysiologist, led the procedure at OSU’s Ross Heart Hospital. It was the fourth implant worldwide. Current treatment of central sleep apnea is limited to a tightly fitting mask that blows air into the lungs to keep the patient breathing. Dr. William Abraham, professor of internal medicine and director of cardiovascular medicine at OSU, said many patients just can’t tolerate the mask. “The potential (for the RespiCardia System) is that it is implantable, automatic and doesn’t require any work for the patient,” Abraham said. “If proven effective, we want to demonstrate that this device can adequately treat central sleep apnea, and if we can, there will be a lot of appeal for the device.” Central sleep apnea is a major problem in people with heart disease and people who have suffered a brain injury, Abraham said. “There are six million Americans with heart failure; about 80 percent of those people have sleep apnea and about 60 percent of those people have central sleep apnea,” Abraham said. “So obviously
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OSU nuclear reactor used for research JUDy Sa mson Lantern reporter samson.27@osu.edu
OSU’s reactor compared to a commercial reactor
The water in the pool was a lighter blue than the chlorine water of a swimming pool. The pool had several rods sticking into it. The core of Ohio State’s nuclear reactor was sitting at the bottom. OSU’s nuclear reactor is housed in the Reactor Building on 1298 Kinnear Rd. It was built in 1960 and first operated in 1961, according to the nuclear reactor lab’s website. “This was kind of the era of atoms for peace,” said Andrew Kauffman, associate director of the reactor lab. “Post World War II, where people were looking for peaceful uses for nuclear (power). In that time period a lot of research reactors were built at universities.” Marion Poole, a physics professor, and graduate students Walt Carey and Dick Bailey started the lab, said Don Miller, a retired OSU professor in nuclear engineering and the director of the lab between 1979 and 1997. OSU students in the nuclear engineering master’s or doctorate program or the nuclear engineering minor program can use the lab for research. Several other universities around Ohio, such as Cleveland State University and Case Western University, have used the lab. High school groups have also toured the lab. The reactor is used to expose materials to radiation and detect how the material might degrade or enhance. The reactor can also be used to see what a material is made of by ways of neutron activation analysis, or NAA. The water inside the pool is purified through filtering processes so it won’t become radioactive. If regular water is put in the pool, the minerals in the water, such as chlorine, sodium or calcium, can become radioactive when they are exposed to neutrons. “If you just put tap water in the pool and ran the reactor for the first time, you’d have a radioactive pool,” Kauffman said. The water in the pool helps keep the reactor cool, moderates the neutrons with its hydrogen and acts as a barrier.
Ohio State research reactor
Davis-Besse nuclear power reactor
• In operation since 1961 • Located on Ohio State’s west campus • Ohio State run • Pool-type reactor • Used for research and instruction, including neutron activation analysis, radiation-damage evaluation, evaluation of neutron and radiation sensitive detectors, isotope production, and biomedical experiments • Max of 500 kilowatts of thermal energy • Does not convert energy into power
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In operation since 1978 Located on the southwest shore of Lake Erie Run by the FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Pressurized water reactor Used to generate power The core inside the reactor vessel creates heat that turns the pressurized water into steam that turns a main turbine generator, producing electricity Max of 893 megawatts of electric energy (equal to about 2,700,000 kilowatts thermal energy)
Source: Nuclear Reactor Lab, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission MOLLY GRAY / Managing editor for design
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