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Summary of 640603 Meeting W/K Steinbrugge to Examine Excavation & Proposed Locations for Various Facility Structures.Related Info Encl
ML20118D241
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Site: Bodega Bay
Issue date: 06/12/1964
From: Knuth D
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ACES SUE-CCMMI?I'EE MEETING AT ECDMA EAY CN JWE 3,1961.,

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The ACES Sub-Cc=mittee for the Ecdega Eay Reactor and its design consultant, K. V. Steinbrugge, met at the Ecdega site to era ine the excavatien and the preposed locaticns f:r various facility structures.

In additicn, a short meeting w&s held be-tween the ACES Sut-Commiuee members and PG&E representativan to discuss unresclved problem areas.

Those attending the site tour and the meetine were as follows:

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The ACES questionec the suitability of the seismic design l

criteria that have teen proposed by PG&E in view of the fact that I

the reactcr is to be founded en bedrock whereas the basic seismic i

data en which the criteria are based were chtained during the l

El Centre e'.rthquake from measurements made on alluvium.

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ACRS pointed cut that the respence spectrum at high fres.uencies was =cre in question than that for lett frequencies.

PG&E perscnnel respcnded b:. st sting that their censultants believed that the spectrum as presented in tue applicaticn was adequate for the Ecdega cite and that they would supply additicnal in-fcr=atio..n t.o. hdescrite how the spectrum has been modified to t

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splacements at the site.

Mr. Maut: cf PG&E stated that he vaz net convinced that a tethed of decigning fel displacements cf as great as 2 or ? feet was pcssible, and thut if the PG&E geclogists stated that such motien was credible that he would te the first to recc= mend a different cite.

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  • hat all of the PG&E consultants were in agreement ths t major displacements alcng this shaft fault vele too ce=ote to be ecn.

sidered credible.

Mr. Steint rugge stated that he knew of no ctruc cure which has teen dec1gned to withstand thenr displacements cf the tagnitude discussed (2 to 3 feet).

He further stated that he has authored technical papers en this subject and his positicn had been that 4

cne chculd nct build a normal structure acrcas a fault ccne vnere ccre than small shears are expected (small sheara were interpreted by him to mean fracticns cf an inch or e few inchec at aczt).

LE. Steinbrugge stated that he was not experienced in reactor designs but rather in the designs cf ncr=al structures, such as effice buildings and the like.

He indicated that he did nct wish to ctate that a building design to acccamcdate 2 to 3 feet cf shear was impcceible, but, rather that it would be extremely difficult and veuld require design techniques that are not standard.

Frcm his co= rents it appeared that he had not examined the = cst recent design proposal of PG&E's seismic design con-sultant, Dr,.dcusner.

Other PGLE personnel present, parti alarly C. C. Welchel, were of the opinion that a structure designed as propcsed by Dr. Housner could accc=modate displacements ci the magnitude suggested in the staff questions dated hhy 19, 1964 With respect to the staff questions, PG&E expressed the opinien that the questions were open ended, and that discussicns over hem could continue over an extended period of time without reaching any agreement.

C. R. Williams and R. C, Stratten stated that, in their opinion, PG&E's position had been shifting at the previous ACRS meetings on Ecdega, and PG&E'c tone had been "What do you gentlemen (the ACES) vant in the way cf design?"

3. C. Ctratten stated that PG&E needed to firm up their design prcposals before a letter could te expected to be ferthecting from the ACRS.

He further stated that enec PG&E had a firm rasiticn, a hearing would be in order to determine the adequacy of the design regardless cf the AEC's ctaff pccition.

Further discussicns as to the i=plications cf the ctaff gaesticn:

vere deferred until the June 17,19% meeting with the JC staff.

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When.the Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that D, B. Luton it bad abandoned plans for a nuclear power plant on Bodega Bend, ww.am renn uvie. fr.

it was cicar that the company's management oad been surprised by m mosro,6inson In that one the findings of the Division of Reactor Licensing.

g,,,,,,,,,,,3 respect our organization's reaction was $4ntical to PG&E's.

I'* "* # d' Cs reflection the finest surprise vasitbat the. staff's cav.d E. resonen And for this findings were cssentially philosophical in content.

Eseennee seererary reason the October 26,1% Summary Anslysis by the, Division of Reactor Licensing in Vocitet 50-205_ should be enshrined in the.

archives of the atoede age as' a testament' to human control of The staff observed, this potentially mindless technical marvel.

for example, that tb. matter of the company's proposed a-seismic design was ons "on which reasonable men any d And the Dr. J. B. Neilands confiraeu that these were reasonable men.

at the University of California--long an opponent of the Bodega installation and a frequently bitter critic of the AEC--observed

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Commissionb 1962: report on " Civilian Nuclear: Power."

We should like~ to offer co-apologies for any harsh vords in the past, our appreciation for a brillisct definition of the dilemma of nuclear power, and our gratitude for the staff's careful and sober aseessment of the merits of the Bodega site.

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The sooloc, tate of the U. s. oeol-Ja-t survey reported today that the excavation for the i.efd Bodega Bay reestar as 2.ous to rock in the southmest (undrant at aggraximately 40' j

elevetica (360 feet below mean sea avel). Most of_the rock is now exposed and there is good evidense that the taals-dis-covered in the sedimoots at elevaties -20' extends into the rock. The murimaa vertical offset in the sediments was ap-proximately fourteem ineh== and e 0808 geologists believe t&st the relative displaceness in the rock any be wrom greater.

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estermines. 0038 will contimum to watak the esenvatiam as it progresses into the rock ant will give m a further interaml i

I report of its f1=d4=pa.

PCM is ocasidering digging a treach outside the excavation and scraos the fault in an effort to enT*ahlieh whet.ber there ans been any rooest idovessant. USGS geologista seau to feel i

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TO PR 1RVE BODB',A HEAD AND HAE30B, Ill P.O. Box 964 Bert.eley, California December 14, 196h Oear Friend of Bodega Bay:

Betvoen the years 1957 and 1961, when the Bodega controversy was taking shape, there was a point at which a strong posture by the administration or the faculty at the University of California might have stopped PG&E and made our long and difficult fight in subsequent years unnecessary.

But, for various reasons, the University bowed to PG&E's interests; the faculty was given to understand that it was not to oppose FG&E; and few of us will forget the h ailiating performance of the Chancellor's representative at the Public Utilities Commission hearings in 1962. All too often the administration seemed to fulfill a "If we ce.n't have policy described in Clark Kerr's book, The Usen g the University:

the best at least we can avoid the worst."

'a'hatever pressures were brought to bear on the administration (and whether they came f: om the AEC or FGLE is not important here), it is likely that they were effec-tive only because the faculty involved in the Bodega Marine. Laboratory was divided, uncertain, and, most importantly, subservient to the administration.

Thus perhaps the most important and far-reaching consequence of the recent events on the Berkeley campus is that the faculty has reaffirmed (and, in a very real sence, reacquired) a dignity, courage and moral insight that is rare in am university. The faculty has shown a profound cense of its rightful role in the conduct of the University--a rcle that was cruelly denied at Bodega. It vould be tragic if this outgrovth of the Free Speech Movement vere to evaporate through a public (or Board of Regents) misapprehension of its nature, cause and consequences.

It is indeed a matter of free speech--but the larger benefits may be du the aret of freedom for the faculty rather than in freedom for the students.

There is a possibility that in a few years FG&E vill again attempt to build a nuclear power plant on Bodega Head, after the present opposition has dwindled and dispersed. But at this moment the University is constructing the Bodega Marine Laboratory on Bodega Head, while,PG&E vould have to start from scratch to I am confident that 1.f the present sense of freedom build another power plant.

and dignity in the faculty can be sustained, the principal opposition to a revival of FG&E's plans or. Bodega Head vill come from the faculty at the Bodega Marine Laboratory.

Thus this assoc' tion has a deep stake in the " bonus" effects of the Free Speech Movement, if not directly in the central objectives. For this reason the recommen-dations of the Academic Senate adopted on December 8th are our best insura,ce against a revival of the Battle of Bodega Bay in four or five years' time. And it is for this reason that we are enclosing the position paper of the FSM for your information.

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The Association has incurred no costs in connection with tne mailing of the FSM enclosure.

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J. F. Novell, Chisf Site-Environmental Branch, Division of Licensing & Regulaties BODEGA BAY - TELEPHONE CCpVERSATICH WITH MR. AL CLIBSCH go-: d About 4815 FM on Monday, July _27, I received a telephone coll f rom the U. S. Geological Survey who volunteered the following taformation conceraias Bodega Bay..

Mr. Clebsch had just finished a telephem conversation with-Mr. Schlockar of the'U. S. Geological Survey, Meele Park, Ca11foreta. of fice. Mr. Schlocker advised Mr. Clebeeh that a M-Eoenig,who is a geologist with the State of California Division of Mines, had recent'.y ammoined the geology of.

Bodega Head. Koenig reported. in the Divielen of Mines weekly

" Newsletter" last Friday (July 19th) that he had verified the existenes of Johnson's Fault and the existence of f ault-ruaning through Horsewhee Cove, Mr. Clebsch stated that the U. S. Geological Survey does not

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U. S. Geological Survey comaludes that Jab==an'e' Fault does l

not exist. Similarly, the U. S. Geological Survey has not verified the emis*emee of the fault at Beroeshoe Cove.

Mr. Schlocker also told Mr. Clebech that the Sunday issue of the San Francisoo Chrealote (July 21, 1963,' issue) earried a hree page supplemoet conceratag the proposed Bedega Bay reactor. _

Mr. Clebech stated he plans to obtata copies of the California Division of Mines " Newsletter" and of the three page article in the San Franct: ice Chronicle sad sesi a copy of-each to us.

Schlocker was. ac the site on Wedneedsy July 17 to see the

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excavatioa. :Engelkom and Spencer of_Coupliance accompented Schlocker, and requested a complete rundown on what U.' S.

Geological Survey had learaed to date concerning the geology'.-

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further escavatten of the site in order to fee 111 tate the.

geological emandmation. Apparently Schleeker worked this out with Mr. Neuts settsfesterfly. Recently, Mr. Koenig and ses other geologist fram the California Division of Mines happened to be at the asesvatten site while Benilla and Schlooker were These examinina the North and South faces of the enosvatten.-

faces had.been washed down to expose the details. Based on a dif f erence in coloration of these two f aces, Mr. Koenir; elaimed this was evidence of a f ault running through the excavation site.

In order to prove to Mr. Koenig that his interpretation was wrong, Mr. Schlocker had the west face of the excavation washed down so the interbedding of the different colored iornetione could be seen.

Apparently Mr. Koenig was convinced that his interpretatier, was wrong.

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B The USGS report is presently in the " Interior Department,"

presumably "under consideration" by the office of Mr. Rettie of the Resources Program Staff and by the Science Advisor's office.

In this regard the report was sent by Dr. Baker of USGS to the " Interior Department" about the first of July for transmittal by the Secretary to the AEO. At that ti ae Mr.

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Rettie and the Science Advisor sent the report back to Dr.

Baker with comments that seismic aspects should be considered in addition to the geologic study performed by the USGS.

Dr. Baker apparently did not agree with the position taken by Mr. Rettie and the Science Advisor and transmitted the report back to the " Interior Department" with his comments to this effect, there, as indicated above, the reoort is still under consideration.

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Apparently Mr. Rettie and the Science Advisor are con-tinuing io withhold the rercrt and to urge Dr. Baker to include a study and report on the seisrology of the Bodega site as i part of the geologic report.

To date Dr. Baker has not agre d, although, of course, the USGS undoubtedly would carry out such a study if formally requested by the Secretary 3 In this respect it was my irpression from the conversation that Dr. Baker has insisted tha+ - he geologic report should be sent to the AE0 vithout waiting. r a study of seismology even if such a study were requested, cc:

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rT YILL BE no censolation to the people of Alaska. buti 4 'f

^ meir tragedy may prevent the much iscussed Bodega :

nuc'. car power plant from being built near the San Andreas ; Ni fault.For a couple of years, many in the San Francisco Bay l j Area base been trying to bicek Pacific Gas and Electrie f y

{ from building a nuclear reactor on secluded Bodega bay on:, the coast north of the a!

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} results from nature lovers who cr( opposed to spoilirg this j spot by the icvasion of industry, the most effective oppost-p i tion has compfrom experts wbu hase objected to its being f\\ g, i

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v for the 1906 temblor that wrecked San Francisco, j

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g imal decision now lies with the Atomic Energy Commission ! KV\\ki in Wa:,hington.

9 Prio) to the Alaskan eartisquake, :. was a foregone cenclusion that the AEC wo:.!c OR. the Bodega boy site.

]N%jt B' t the San Andrecs icult, extendihg from centrcl Alaska clung the Cahforma Coast, abug the Scn Franetsco Penin-h sula, to a point ecst of Los Angeles, now is shown to be g y t

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O i-where he once was governor.

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k(8 tative of the American Merchant Mar ne Institute, sent a note to Freeman offering to block th labor leaders who' g?

j were plannm; to go to Minnesota to work against him.

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/f/ 2 2820 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley 5, California i

Phone: TH 1-o,399 lI El5ASE (Area Code 415)

R sIMXEDIATE RELEASE bnday, Farch 30, 1964)

I; NEW ECDEGA PETITION:

ERTHQUAjG RISKS SLIGHTED San Francisco (Mar. 30)--The risks of an earthquake-triggered atcmic holo-superimposed on an " ordinary" earthquake disaster "are too important caust to the people of this state to be lost in a procedural mo? ass," the California Public Utilities Commission was told today--in the wake of the disastrous Alaskan earthquakes.

The statement was contained in a new petition filed by the Northern California Association to Preserve Bode;a Head and Harbor., requesting a

the PUC to rescind the permit it granted the Pacific GTs and Electric CompanyforitscontroversialnuclearpowerplantatSodfgaHead.

The PUC has the " duty to safe;uard and protect the Eelfare of C:lifornia citizens," the petitlen stated.

The utility has been planning to c onstruct a 325-thoucanc kilcwatt atomic reactor on the scenic peninsula, about 1000 feet frc t r.3 San Andreas Earthquake Fault, which triggered the 1906 San Francisco carth-quake and fire.

The San Andreas is part of the same Pacific f_uit system' that chattered the coast of Alaska so violently on Good Friday.

"It is difficult to believe that POLE can still seriou 1y inc 5t Il that ' engineering safeguards' will protect against earthquak2 camsle, said David Peconen, Executive Secretary of the 1800-memb3r contarvation group.

"Most of the buildings in Anchorage were 'earthqua.c proof' too,"

he said.

Last January the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a secondary fault penetrates the bedrock at the plant site and that "displa cement on the order of a few feet, either horincntally or vertically, should

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l "The issue of safety has _ never been met squarely tar either" PG&E or the PUC, the petition charged.

Today's petition was filed on the heels of a decision by the Cali-fornia Supreme Court which denied the conservation association's earlier petition for a new hearing to cross-examine PG&E witnesses about earthquake hazards because it was not " timely filed."

But the court reversed the PUC majority, finding that the Atomic l

l Energy Comnission "has not pre-empted the field" of earthquake hazards, f

and that "the states' powers in determining the locations,of atcmic reactors are not limited to matters of noning or similar local interests y.

4 other than safety."

F "Californiahasarare,chancetodecidebeforehandi{itwantsto risk a catastrophe," Pesonen sa13.

The Eodega type reactor has been described as " delicate as a Swiss watch."

"It is sheer irrec;cnaible folly to place tons of radioactive poison on tcp of the world's T.ost l

I treacherous earthquake zone, with Swiss watch controls to keep it cen-tained," Pesonen charged.

"It dcesn't take a university professor to

- know that."

-Noting that PG&E has stated it is anxious for the Atomic Enary; "the Commission to hold hearings on the issue, Pesonen observed that the AEC.

Woodside powerline controversy should settle sny doubts about The AEC is as deeply cc=mitted to the construction of the Esse:a plant as it is to having juice for the Stanford Linear Acceleratsr."

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" leaves little room for tranquility," he added.

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PETITICN TO RESCIhD CERTIFICATE ORDER The Northern California Association to Preserve 3odega Head and Harbor, Inc.,

respectfully petitions the Concission to exercise its broad pcVers under Section 1703 of the Public Utility Code and to rescind the interim certificate of public convenience and necessity heretofore awarded to applictnt,.

and to set this pe-tition for hearing.

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E' the Supreme Court ruled that three members of this Co iscion erned when they i

decided that the issue of plarit safety las pree pted by federal 1 v.

Although the Suprete Court's decision in thih natter was cdverce to petitioner on procedural grounds, it vould seem that the Court's favorable rulin; c; prcerption is a recognition of the Commission's duty to safeguard and protect the welfar ; of California citizens.

The issue of safety has never been met squarely by either the applicant or the Con =ission.

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Attached hereto and made a part hereof are the declarations, under oath, or the following:

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Dr. Pierre St.-Acand and Oreste Lombardi, seismologists cnd ge ;c;i;;3, who vill testify to the hazards created by the earthquake faults on and.aar 3cdga Head.

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Dr. Joel Hedspeth, a marine biologist, who is prepared to :.estify to 27,e effects of fission product concentration in the su.-ou-ding ar<ne environment.

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Dated at San Francisco, California, this 30th day of :hren, lga.

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