ML19317G962
| ML19317G962 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Rancho Seco |
| Issue date: | 09/19/1968 |
| From: | SACRAMENTO UNION SACRAMENTO, CA |
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| References | |
| PR-680919, NUDOCS 8004020622 | |
| Download: ML19317G962 (3) | |
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SSIUD's proposed nuclear plant Standing are William J. Nolan.
I receives a clear. bill of health S51UD's acting general manag-31onday from Norman B. Liver-er, and E. K. Davis, the firm's-more Jr. seated, administrator general counsel. The plant will of the State Resources Agency.
be nearIone. (Staff Photo)
Hearing Today On SMUD's Plant THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS A pubbe banng on 2e Sac. nuclear plant.
rsmento Municipal Utility Dis.
5 MUD,in return, promised:
tnet's proposal to construct a POOR QUALITY PAGES sleo,gi7,,n=ln,r pm e,,j,',,,f,5P',g Jg p,
it can be washed into streams begin at 10 a.m. today in room.widout spa & authonzation.
i 21Dof theStateCapitol The heanng will be conduct-
-To protect fish f om water ed by the Atomic Energy intake facilities.
Commission's Atomic Safety
-To conduct wat.. Quahty and Licensing Board.
and radiological s-venhance SMUD Monday received programs.
approval of its proposal from
-To cooperate with local or theState Resources Agency.
state orgamzations interested The agency agreed not to in developing recreataonal fa.
oppose SMUD's plans for a
' uties near the plant.
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_3'c m o p.'_3C. P o W e.r w e r m, y At By TED TI!OMAS Clancy sad, however, that tion of this plant-which is fine Sacramente Union Rancho Seco was a " feasible if it works."
Staff unter project."
Winters based his statement Gas Gerling. secretary of the on the fact the 8180 million An Atomic Energy Commis. Galt Irrigation Distnet. cr.
plant,10 miles west of tone, ston hear.ng on the Sacramento pressed concern that the plant would generate much of Ma:ncipal Utility District's would monopolize water sup. SMUD's electricity, proposal to build a nuclear phes and that industrial water The board member, a re.
plant near lone produced al. might escape to other areas search scientist for Union Car-most no controversy Tuesday.
through underground channels, bide Corp., commented that The hearir.g will continue at 9 The remamder of the day. some nuclear plants have been i
a.m. tooay m room 2170 of the long hearing was devoted to forced to close down for ex.
State Capitol.
techmcal discussaos betweeri tended periods.
Only two persons in the audi. the AEC's three member At-Charles L. Hair. S\\fUD's '
ence expressed concern about omic Safety and 1leensmg system planning engineer, said the proposed Rancho Seco Board, the AEC staff and the distnet also tapped hydroe.
plant.
SMUD spokesmen.
lectric power from its Ameri-Dr. Patricit J. Clancy, a pri.
Board member Dr. Charles can River project and had ac.
vate specialist in occupational E. Winters asked if SMUD cess to power produced by the medicine, said valley weather wouldn't be overly dependent Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and was condacive to aar pollution. upon RanchoSeco for power.
the U.S. Bureau of Reclama.
He urged the AEC to carefully "It seems to me," Winters taon.
consider the effcet of discharg. said, "that this leaves the dis.
The district wili be required ing waste from the atomsc trict m a position where it's to obtain an operatant permat Dlant IAto the atmosphere.
highly dependent on the opera. once the plant is constructed.
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hiY.t]l1 AEC Ends Hearing on
.SMUD Plant An Atomic Energy Commis..
sion hearing onthe Sacramento '
Municipal Utility District's' proposal to build a nuclear-power plant near Ione conclud-ed Wednesday morning.
The Atomic Safety and Li-censing Board is expected to:
' rule on SWUD's proposalwith '
in 30 days. If the AEC does not.
rule within 45 days,SMUD may *.
begin work on the new plant.
The hearing, which began -
., Tuesday in the State Capitol, continued Wednesday with two hours of technical discussion ?
the AEC's three -
between I
member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board,the AEC staff
, and SMUD spokesmen..
Board member Dr. Charles E. Winters elaborated on a -
question he had proposed ear-
, lier - would SMUD be overly.'
dependent upon the Rancho :
Seco nuclear plant for power? '
"It seems to me the degree t a
of dependence the district (
would have on this power plant <
wouldbeunusuallylarge,"said :
0-Winters, a research scientist Y for UnionCarbideCorp.
Prior to the AEC hearing on the Rancho Seco plant, the,
proposal had been reviewed and approved by the Advisory -l Committee on Reactor Safe-guards, as specified by law l '
and the AEC staff.
1 During the two day hearingc 4
' only two persons in the audi
- ence expressed concern about" the proposed plant. The men
' were. concerned with the~'
plant's effect on air and water i
resources.
Norman Livermore, state administrator, resourcesan agreement with,
signed SMUD not to oppose the con
- s structionof theplant.,
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