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. WOMEN'S INTERNflONAL LEAGUE FOR P JV' y.-
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FOUNDED IN 1915 JANE ADDAMS, FIRST PRE 5404NT INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 12 RUE DU VIEUX COLLEGE CALIFORNIA STATE BRANCH GENEVA, SWITZERLAND VICE PRESIDENTS MRS. MARY L. 51550N - NORTH
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NATIONAL LEG 15LATIVE OFFICE TREASURER 120 MARYLAND AVENUE, N.E., WASHINGTON 2, D.C.
MRS. CHARLES D. HORNIG 1885 BLEWETT AVENUE, SAN JOSE 25 BERKELEY - LA JOLLA-5AN DIEGO - LOS ANGELES. MARIN COUNTY - PALO ALTO - PASAD SAN FRANC 15CO - SAN JOSE - SANTA CRUZ Feb. 5, 1963 i
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Atomic Ener67 Commission Washington, D.C.
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Dear Sirs:
We want you to know our official position on the proposed building of a nuclear reactor at Bodega Head. Enclosed you will find a copy of the letter we have sent to newspapers, representa-tives and other government and public persons.
Sincerely, CadO UWJ (Mrs.) Carol 'old Chairman, Bodega Hoad Cncmittee, Marin nILPF l
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-s The Marin Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is deeply concerned about the proposed nuclear reactor to be built at Bodega Head. Prompted by this concern some of us, accompanied by our families, went on.a picnic and inspection tour of that peninsula on Sunday, January of. rare beauty must be abandoned as a site for a nuclear reactor and be preserved as a state park and marine biological laboratory.
From the tip of Bodega Head we' could see Point Reyes and the mouth of Tomales Bay. Knowing that this bay follows the San Andreas fault zone, visible on the headland itslef as a line of small sandy hills, we could not help but wonder why this site had been chosen for the building of a nuclecr reactor.
We have studied available material on this proposed PG&E project and feel that the operation of the atomic plant will pose a great danger to the public. We rocognize that the use of atomic energy to benefit mankind has unlimited possibilities we also recognize that the risks $nvolved in its use a,re greater
- however, than any risk man has yet encountered.
The generating plant at Bodega Head will be an experiment all put together into one working reactor. There hav questions as to the safety of the standards to be used in the I
disposal of radio active wastes. Accidents have occured in atomic plants of similar design. One in a reactor of this size could be catastrophic. Considering the continuing controvery among scien-tists about the effects of radiation on biological systems seems quite irresponsible to pla ce such a large nuclear fueled
, it generator less than sixty miles up wind from San Francisco.
We object to the fact that this electric generating plant will also be producing material destructive to mankind. Plutonium a by-product of plants of this type, will be sold to the Atomic Energy Commission to be stored for use in nuclear weapons. The low purchase price of the atomic fuel plus the resale of the feel that in the lighplutonium, makes this project economically feasible for generating plants can,t of the above fact, nuclear fueled electric i.
development of atomic energy.hardly pass under the guise of peaceful We left Bodega Head greatly disturbed. Excavation is well I
under way in spite of the fact 'that all the requirements of the 3
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i Public Utilities Commission interim permit have not been flulfilled.
PG&E has not yet secured proper authority from the AEC to construct its nuclear energy plant,. and a survey to determine if the project l
would be adverse to the public interest has not been conducted.
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It is obvious that if work is allowed to progress at its present rate of speed, by the end of the two year survey period
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required by PUC, the plant, if not already completed, would i
certainly be in the final stages of construction. Any survey would
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be completely valueless should the results prove that this project would indeed be detrimental to the public interest and it seems i
highly unlikely that PG&E would abandon its enornous investment at such time.
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, therefore, urges that all work at Bodega Head cease until thorough surveys conducted by impartial scientists prove beyond any doubt that the proposed nuclear reactor will not be adverse to the public interest in any way.
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