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Forwards Background Info on High Energy Physics Program & Proposed Stanford Linear Electron Accelerator Project, 1961 Rept to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy,Per Re Const of Reactor at Bodega Head.W/O Encl
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 06/08/1964
From: Case E
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To: Mateker E
WASHINGTON UNIV., ST. LOUIS, MO
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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

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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

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tulating an accident which w!Il The issues, it says *must be F

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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.

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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/

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