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Nuclear Powcr 'Tylyt 'yc Editor-It would terribly weaken the arguments of the Bodega plant proponents to admit that our op-position has primarily been on g eOch e,tJo points of conservation. The safety issue has only come to the fore
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!r the meanwhile, to paraphrase One hundred Mr. Feeney (Letters, April 30),
. safety should be the goal of a $
PG&E has failed miserably to ex.
lic utility. One wonders how this plain, one extremely important in.
can possibly be guaranteed con.
consistency: If atomic plants are sidering the location PG&E h the future, source of supply for the chosen.
steacily inc easing demands of PAUL BOLER.
power, and if the Bodega site is San Francisco
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The possibilities of a disas. calculation of'a " maximum I
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tion accident at the proposed credible accident"in the plant, Bodega Bay nuclear power plant compares it to a IM7 Atomic are explored in a publication by Enctgy Com:r.!ssion study of i
the St. Louis Citizens Commit. major accidem. and emeludes:
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The searing criticism of the b!e aftuation" of a westerly or i
Pacific Cas & Electric Co. smithwesterly wind at ihdega power plant proposal was re. Iread, "ncar'y overyonc" in Bo.
leased today - and produced de14 Bay "would c;c within the f
as scaring a reaction from a first day." -
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j who called it " astounding for (Continued on Page 10, Col 3) its deceitfulness... sabotage."
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mation, deals idth the possibill.
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San Andreas fault zone near 4
the site might cause release of radiation.
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variables intervene to decrease or magnify any reactor accl.
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the people exposed would be Although the company empha-I very sicir." and in San Fran phere.It is critical of PGLE for not,s' zed it does not e L
cisco, with Uie "more likely"
'condidon of a northwest wind evaluating the results of such an' movement if ' any occurs it't and a temperature inversion accident la its application to the "would not amount to more than!
-ondition that would trap re-AEC for permission to build the a fraction of an inch," thc amendment says an "Incredi.il leases, the article speculates plant.
that some would be !!!, there It reviews statements by some b!c" one-foot movement wouldo j
mean no damage or impair.
I would,be long. term radiation geologists-including a t e a m ment of function and even with cffects, and finds the "sugges-from the U.S. Geological Survey a two foot movement the reac-tion" that crops would have to --that a IWmagnitude earth-tor suppression system wou!d re-be destroyed and agriculture re-quake might produce shifts of main inact stricted "for distances of hun-rock of Bodega Head itself, and The ' Nuclear Informadon ar. I 5
dreds of miles."
says it is " unreasonable" not ticle says "an expert in earth P The SL Louis group is de-to consider an earthquake as a quake resistant structures saidl i
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scribed as a committee of " credible cause of the maximum j
u the techniques for (protecting tho scientists and laymen; the Bo-credible accident" to the plant. reactoM had been developed un.h l
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and Richard Daly, holder of a that all the radioactivity will be p riant informatica about ite re-lb mabs class!fied."
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engineering and. with a back-(The drywell, as defined by Mr. Stroub says it is PG&E's)J ground as an assistant mathe-PG&E, is the steel shell sur., concept, that it is "not radical f
matician at the Argonne Labor-rounding the reactor, p'us as,'or unusual," and called the ar, ci ticle's statement " ridiculous."
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Mr. Stroube said today that The artic!c says, after discus-The article was reviewed and the reactor "will be designed sion of the possibility of radio i
] approved by the publication's so carefully that even under the active releases from the plant.0 scientific advisory board, made most severe earthquake action that with "such an accident pos Y a
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that scientists expect it would sible, and in fact made more A 1
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not breach and release fission dega Reactor... PGLE's case products."
8 What the authors of the ar. before the AEC will not be un/
I Hal Stroube, PG&E press rep-resentative, called the article a ticle are doing, he said, is "pos-contested..."
tulating an accident which w!Il The issues, it says *must be F
" completely one sided review of not happen."
given the most deep and scarch I s l
the Bodega situation..."
The article, however, s a y s ing attention by experts of com b '
The w r ii e r s "never ap-,,the hazards of such an acci-plete integrity. The public mustjE proached PG&E and asked for dent m u s t be evaluated not be fully acquainted with exact.h' facts or explanation... the avoided.
ly the risks involved for them article is astounding for its de-m such a project."
lp ceitfulness. It is biased and in.
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flammatory....a clever and dangerous sabotage not only of PG&E amendment to its appli-l Peaceful Atom, the magazine It deals also with a recent:
the Bodega project but by ex-cation that oIIers a %shn con-l poses the problem of "How can we balance the value of a nu-tension, of the nation's civilian cept" for bedding tne reactortclear operation against the risk atomic power program, all done on sand and surrounding it with of possible harm, and thus ce/
with a pseudo scientific air of a compressible material to ac-cide whether the project is wor:h authority."
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formation argument is that an
.' It says an "indepcadent evalua-carthquake might result in a t'on of the benefits of a nuc' car,
[ breach of the reactor's protec power -p1a n t, over and abovej those of a conver.tional pov.cr'l i
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