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o a Nuclear Powcr 'Tylyt 'yc Editor-It would terribly weaken
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- Bodega Head location only. The Editor--PGas,8 Plam t a nuclear build proponents rather make the con 1 #9' venient but inaccurate blanket in- ' Head seem au h # #'
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plain, one extremely important in. lic utility. One wonders how this consistency: If atomic plants are can possibly be guaranteed con.
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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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calculation of'a " maximum I trous earthquake caused radla.
credible accident"in the plant,
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- Bodega Bay nuclear power plant compares it to a IM7 Atomic are explored in a publication by Enctgy Com
- r.!ssion study of 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.
! f leased today - and produced de14 Bay "would c;c within the as scaring a reaction from a first day." -
l utilities company spokesman, -In Sar,ta Itosa "many of j who called it " astounding for (Continued on Page 10, Col 3) ')
, its deceitfulness . . . sabotage."
, . The magazine, Nuclear Infor.
L mation, deals idth the possibill. ,
j ty t'.at an earthquake along the .
! 4 San Andreas fault zone near the site might cause release of radiation.
I It warns that " innumerable i
variables intervene to decrease or magnify any reactor accl.
dent," and says not , enough !
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predict results. i But'It adds the splitting of i
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underlying bedrock. l the people exposed would be of nuclear fission to the atmos. I i Although the company empha-very cisco, with sicir." and in Uie "more San Fran phere.It is critical of PGLE for not,s' zed it does not e likely" L
'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
-ondition that would trap re- AEC for permission to build the "would a fractionnot of anamount inch," thc to more than!
leases, the article speculates plant. amendment says an "Incredi.il . ,
j that some would be !!!, there It reviews statements by some b!c" one-foot movement wouldo' mean no damage or impair. I would ,be long. term radiation geologists-including a t e a m cffects, and finds the "sugges- from the U.S. Geological Survey ment of function and even with tion" that crops would have to --that a IWmagnitude earth- a two foot movement the reac-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 I says it is " unreasonable" not The ' Nuclear Informadon ar.
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ticle says "an expert in earth P t
The SL Louis group is de- to consider an earthquake as a quake resistant structures saidl i l
scribed as a committee of " credible cause of the maximum the techniques for (protecting tho u j l 9 scientists and laymen; the Bo- credible accident" to the plant. reactoM had been developed un.h l l k dega article was written by It is "also unreasonable," the der AEC auspices and the im.,1 1
.Lindsay Mattison, a layman, article says, to " rely on the fact l
and Richard Daly, holder of a that all the radioactivity will be p riant informatica about ite re-lb l mabs class!fied."
,mastcr's degree . In electrical contained in the intact drywell."
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 matician at the Argonne Labor- rounding the reactor, p'us as,'or unusual," and called the ar,"ci f ticle's statement " ridiculous."
atory. Both are magazine staff sociated pumps and piping.)
Mr. Stroube said today that The artic!c says, after discus-
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the reactor "will be designed sion of the possibility of radio i The article was reviewed and
] approved by the publication's so carefully that even under the active releases from the plant.0 severe earthquake action that with "such an accident pos Y a
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scientific advisory board, made
., 1 up of 25 scientists. that scientists expect it would sible, and in fact made more A l I ( not breach and release fission 3 products."
likely by the siting of the Ba f dega Reactor . . . PGLE's case i PG&E Itcacts. 8 I Hal Stroube, PG&E press rep- What the authors of the ar. before contested the AEC will not be un/
ticle are doing, he said, is "pos-resentative, called the article a The issues, it says *must be tulating an accident which w!Il F " completely one sided review of given the most deep and scarch I s
- not happen."
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 facts or explanation . . . the avoided .
be ly the fully risksacquainted involved for them with exact.h' article is astounding for its de- m such a project." lp ceitfulness. It is biased and in. R w Des.ign In 'an editorial note on The flammatory . . ..a clever and l
dangerous sabotage not only of It deals also with a recent:
PG&E amendment to its appli-l Peaceful Atom, the magazine the Bodega project but by ex- cation that oIIers a %shn tension, of the nation's civilian wecon-l balance poses theofproblem the value a nu- of "How can 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
- i those plant is also of needed."
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