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Those Listed saleer March 27,1963 i
J Rodney L.. Southwick, Assistaat to the Naasser,for Public Inferiesties, SAN RELEASE BY BODEGA Puut? OPPCNENTS l
HisELS Attmahed are copies of am m e = =* and *8edega Say -
l The asete Zasues" whieb were distributed by eppenests of the PG42 medess say acclear power plaat at the time 'they filed suit maniast the seesma cemety Board of supervisors.
These are transmitted for your Laformaties.
Addresseest Joe Feuchard, DPI, RQ l
E. C. Shute, Manager, SAN
- 1. W. Smith, Dir., Div. of Compliance, Region V
%bert 1 onet.1=, otr., nua, un noserd x. shacer, ooc, an Encleeurest As stated above.
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SCIATZ pELEASE JOINT RELEASE '
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'.'0?2 TO EDITORS AND CORRESPONDENT:
The Committee to Precorve 3o;<
t and is a group of about 500 Soncea County citizens, banded cocethv.
informally to opposo the Pacific Gac & Electric Company's reactor t.c h Joga Head and to preserve the cito from industrial intrucion.
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'aicership of the Northern California Association to.precorve 3caeca
- .and and Enrbor is also about 500, centered in the San Francisco :e Area.
It is a California Non-profit Corporation, with purposes ide_-
t cal to those of the Sonoma County group.
l 3G AL TEST _OF BODEGA A-pL ANT The right of PG&E to build its controversial Bodega 3ay a o ic reactor uncer a use permit granted by Sonoma County was today cha - '
longed in Sonona County Superior Court in Santa Rosa'.
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,/O A lawsuit filed jointly by f*i-ve Sonoma County re idents and ne
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the use porcit granted by the County Supervisors in 19o0 failed to satisfy both county and state lawc which recuired public notice of such action.
If legal notice had been given, cne petition alleges, ic would have disclosed that PGLE planned a nuclear-fueled plant at 3odega Bay.
(The company announced ths.t it woulc build an atomic plant at 3odega Head in July, 1961.)
The petition further alleges that if public hearings haa been hold, they would hav,e disclosed tnat "the proposed nuclear-fueled Icactor at Bodega Head will discharge radioactive wastes into the a.
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a..d into the ocean water, contaminating surrounding ocean waters l
and the atmosphere of Sonoma County."
The petitioners ' property "will be substantially damaged" and their heces and businesses "conaced by radioactive caterials and ~
'!astes," the potition adds.
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dispu:od atomic plant from the U.S. Ato:ic Energy Co=ission.
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Usually they are halc in Germanccein, Maryisr.d.
Zoarings by the North Coast !!ator Pollution - Control Board to
. i ectablish maximum permissabic radioactive waste discharges aro.also yo; to be-scheduled.
1 PGLE began construction at.the site of the,, 5 housand kilo-I boiling-water reactor in early January.
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company announced that nuclear capacity at Bocega Bay veill be in-1 creased six-fold by 1978.
Attorneys in the action are Garry,-Dreyfus & McTernan of San 1
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Ir 1955 the State Livision of Beaches and Parks nov d 1
adding it appropriated $350,000to the system outlined in the Master Plan to acquire.:sta;a, o
1 for the purchase, The Logicle ur; part of which ic ccill ava;_:
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the Road for a marino recoarch stationIn 1955 the Unive
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ng to Ecqua o par; cito en the coast, with rich tideflats in the Bay,Unspoilad, this ic. he becu land in 1957 the Univenaity aico withdrew in the fac~eand ric bird habitat on s
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la Af ter wictfully scarching for other sites of PGLE's interce to what would now becosa a " Class-B site ", a fac ulty committee re tur..st-cito for a marine (research) facility is being exploitad f noting that "a unique Cices..
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plans f or, a heavy-duty road in the tideflats' or theThis decis or power.
plana to increase Bodega's nuclear generatine a;._
recently annoanced six within fifteen years.
cauacity by a f4eter _cf a
3 County's odly county park. Power lines from the plant will occup ark sandspit--Sonoma.
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county and the stato for powerlino easements is stillCondemnation a 1
pending.
4 The plant will discharge controlled amounts the marine environment at " safe drinkiof radioactivity into characteristics of f Bodega Head are unusual-and th ng water levels." But nixin; crganisms to concentrate artificial icotopes is r s
e.peger of carine emarkable.
5 Since PGiB has announced a number of nuclea in the Delta, sacrificing tho unique valuce of B dr plants down the coast neceasary for " competitive" nuclcar power.
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It has been argued that AEC requirements for th
' so strinecnt that "safet7" should not be an issue 3cdosa Bay planc are o
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But roactor in the world,the Bodega reactor vould be the largest b.
The safety critoria im power in the lact four yearspoacd by the AEC have been liberalized but to percuasion from the utility ind ustr-in responso not to operating
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Thic has been franr.ly y.
By POL 3's admission, the safety cycte c.
It consists of underground pools into whichfor Bodega :t11 be " novel "
would be condensed, in the event of accidentradioactive catorial chocon because it is cheapar than the usual contai The system was However, Bodega Head ia ancient, nment doce.
of Intensity IX can be expected eventuallysito is The reactor ault.
An earthe includa:
" ground c:a A nuclear accident at the time of ceverecrackod conspicuously.
This is defined to Underground pipas brokan."
fission productc,te the environment quake would reloace d.
According to PGhS'c testimony at the pUC
" Hazards Rsport," thors will be
- canj st and :.c outlinet in the activo liquids and gases during norn d onoratiata relcacas of radio-er3 Although some i
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forms cf radiation havo.always bobn procont on carth, most face o:
products do not occur in nature and are entirely alien to lafe t their lon; rance effectc are not
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Thoro havo been' nuclear accidenta of many forms in othcr r;
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host availablo sources outside the AEC list 34 atomic react:
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in tho United States cince 1946.
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Tho mat ter of nafety involves (1) n.philecophy toward the c:
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.}ucan c:ror in decign.and operation, -(2).the unprecodonted conscq;ences j
sfatalities in the thousands--epecially, insured by the A20) in the ovont I
of accident, and, (3) the right of people involved to participate in tho l
decision'to run the risks--no natter how remoto the. ricks may be.
These iscues have been clouded by countless and contradictory technical detailz
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In Fobruary 1960, when a construction pernit was granted, PGLE had not announced that the olant would be atomic.
PGLE said it MIGHT be.
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Even knowing this, the Supervisors ref used to. hold a public hearing, l
although public health and safety are in doubt.
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Althougl. the Zoning Ordinance roe,uires that PG&E file plans and i
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i specifications for the plant, the c ompany declined, saying that this j
would be "tdo e'xpensivo." The Supervisors' resolution agreed that it."would work a hardship."
3 The citizens of the County have never had an opportuni'ty to air the facts on safety or the location of the clant in public hearin+.
All cubatantive cuestions of safety have been doferred to the AEC.
The o
l ouestion of location was an unobstructed decision by PG&E.
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POSE'has begun construction, despite the fact that AEC hearings are yet to be scheduled.
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PGLE.and' the 'AEC claim that the Ecdoga plant will be the first in the l
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country to produce economic nuclear powar.
3ut, this is becauce :ho AEC will underwrite a large portion of the operating expense of this 1
plant through subsidies in fuel coats.
The Director of Oak Ridge Kational Laboratory has said:
" Current pricos reprosent a' substantial l
government subsidy for the 3odega B1y plant developing [Uoiling J
water feactorc--such as at 3cdegf71c not a terribly idportant tack."
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This, plant will."b' urn" the rarest icetopa.cf uranius, ethich is 7/10the
.4 of lb of the carth's uranius resourcoc.
A' growing number of' reactor speciald ats. feel that, if atomic power is to bc 'uced on a wide scale, reactor ; whi'ch "burno abundant iso. totes and " breed" now fuel are the answe?--if the waste problom can be ' olved.
It, appears that the 3cdega-s plant -is boing' cponsored to keep alive what the ABC has called an "over capitalized and urider used" reactor industry.
Senator Clinton Andorcen has caid that the utility industry is building' porier reactors to " stake
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i Conclusion Tha.7erthern California Association to pracerve Eodoga Zond and Enrbor foal; that 3cdoga 3ay shnuld not be caanally "sta.:cd cut" by anyone.
j 3cauca was once to be a state park and a Clasa-A carino labora ory.
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