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Dear Doctor Seaborg:
With respect to your previous correspondence
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l Any comment or clarification you can provide on l T-the apparent interpretation of the. letter by the news writer also would be appreciated. It would be particularly helpful to Senator Engle to know whether a public hearing still is M,4, contemplated at Santa Rosa; and if so, approximately when in 5
your judgment it is likely to be held.
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c!fic G s & Electric Company to spcIl out in detail liowThe Atomic Energy Com tly a thousand feet west of he taken to protect against the edge of the San Andreas tsunamis ( t id a l w a y e s ) I it proposed to protect ita Dodega Hecd atom power plantfr. alt wne, to withstand as greater in size than the
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feet, would the: company's w"I discuss the m a t t e r iicen. apphcation cannot design. retult in a contain - again.
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tect the a, tom plant against Would thesafety scram" do not satisfy it, the delay W
carth shifts of two inches. systan for shutting down in coming to a d ec!81on
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i Harold i. Price, director of the company said, the renc-W uld the nucle,ar pile asked to design for an acci-l l e-rj regulat'on for AEC, to C. C.
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the ~ movement were two i r plant (needed to carry a discunion of the Bodeg? feet,. the steel container out safety and. shutdown given thia burden.
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tetting the reactor and its Price underscored the' except by its conservation-contcInm~at versvl on a bed new standard of credibility: 1st foep,; the Northern of rond and surrounding "A primary question con-California' Acsociat!on to tha whe!e th!r.g with "a cerns the ability of' the layer of comprcraible ma-plant, located approximate. Preserve Bodega Head:.
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