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gf Dr. Leslie Silverman Chairman, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards i
U. S. Atomic EnerFy Commission Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Dr. Silverman:
Transmitted herewith in connection with site visits by members of the ACRS to oossible locations for large nuclear power plants in the L6s Angeles and San Francisco areas is additional information consisting of the following:
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Sites in Los Angeles area Temperature diffusion atudies surrounding cooling a.
water discharge structure (2 copies) b.
Maps showing 2 alternate site locations (2 copies each) 2 Site in San Francisco area a.
Map of Bodega Bay (3 copies) b.
Picture of Bodega Ba Map Drawing R-33hh (y (J conies) c.
3 copies) d.
Corps of Engineers Bodega Head Quadrang10 Map (3 copies) v p; As discussed in my letter to you of June Ib, 1960, the Companies have requested that this information be considered as company confidential; and that it not be used in a public way at this time.
Sincerely yours, Harold L. Price, Director Division of Licensing and Re M ation bece Eber R. Price Enclosurex As stated HEB:DL&R HEB:DL&R DL&R D3 Case: alp:vm
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4 DL&R NDti FEB 151961 Dr. Certrude Vr.n dteyn 651 Cherry street Santa Rosa, California Dear Dr. Van dteyns Reference is made to your letter of January 11, 1961, regarding the plans of the Pacific Ces and Electric Company to build a nuclear power plant at Bodega Bay, California.
Although the Connaission is aware that the Pacific Gas and Electric Company is studying the possibility of installing a nuclear power plant at this location, no application has been received from the Company for the necessary license to construct and operate such a facility.
i Your letter indicatad that you were "...under the impression that an atomic power plant was supposed to be built at least 100 air miles from any large city and on a specified amount of acreage". The AEC has never specified a 100-mile minimum distance. The suitability of a site snust be examined for the particular case involved and its location with respect to a city evaluated in tenas of the size of the reactor, the safety features incorporated, including containment, and the environ.
mental conditions associated vith the site. Recognizing the variability that results from taking into account all of these factors, an' acceptable site may he as near to a city as a mile or two or it may be as far as 20 to 25 mileo. Vith regard to the amount of acreage, the size of the exclusion cree is also dependent upon the particular circumstances as indicated above and can vary from several hundred feet to a half mile or more.
In considering any application for a construction permit or an operating license for a nuclear power facility, a detailed safety review is made by the Coassission's technical staff and by the Advisory Coosaittee on Reactor 3&feguards. If PGLE submits an application for a facility at Bodega Bay, the rgview will include examinatico of the environmental characteristics of the site such as the geological, hydrological, 9 Y.
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