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Responds to to President Kennedy Expressing Concern Re Proposed Construction of Nuclear Power Reactor at Bodega Head,Ca.Forwards Pamphlet Describing Procedures Re Licensing of Power Reactors by Aec.W/O Pamphlet
ML20234C734
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 07/19/1963
From: Price E
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To: Joann Ireland
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1, protesting Pacific Gas & Elec-as possible "last stoppers,"

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steam plant at Bodega Bay, President William Bennett's Wednesday, but he said ho view on preserving the esthe-T
, doesn't know what can be ties of Bodega Head.

cD done about it.

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Commission-and that is ful place," Brown commented.

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Brown said yesterday he l thinks a planned nuclear power. plant on Bodega ;,

Bay will mar a-scenic a

coastline, but he doesn't I

know what the State can l

do about it.

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steam plant out there on that beautiful stretch of coast," he 'old his news con-

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Commission had declined to U,

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' sel William M. Bennett that f.$'1 s l aesthetics were an important i

consideration, but that the

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tion would have to come 4;

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Energy Comminion.

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favor of gaining new indus-j...

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weigh other considerations, l-'N '

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We would point out,once

, again that the property in question is not public land.

It is a very small parcel of the North Coast and it has been and continues to - be privately owned land. The plant and p r o p o s e d park landscaping will improve-the

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appearance of the Head, not despoli."

He said the Sonoma Coun-ty Planning Commission "has said our plant would be com-patible with the area's master plan."

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and outrageous misuse of the Said ' Arrogance'

, language in this context is far

' EDITOR: 'Ite comments by

' more serious than Mr. Grendon Alexa'id'er Grendon, advisor to seems to reallt.e. It is certainly the. Gove.mor on radiation af.

more important than the real or '

fairs, as published in your July Imagined ernrs he is trying to 11 issue, raise sotne very grave

, correct. It is simply the latest points. The point of view of the.

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Governor's advisor is essentially the arrogance of experts who

( the same as that of the publi.

tell us not only are these mat.

cist for a well known power ters beyond our undert,tanding.

company who has been styled but that we have na bus!ncss

" Atomic Information Specialist,"

. trying to questSn their decisions.

but in addition Mr. Grendon ap.

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parentif claims to be an expert where the Atomic Energy Com.

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mfssion declares that a local I

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application of atomic energy

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in the English language, and to we are told that "no" is to instruct us that he is using "no" mean one thing to us, and ap. k

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and "none" in the " layman's

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" experts." This evidently means

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,M Iodine 131 is emitted" he really

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ence, and thereby has con.

3 firmed the very things he is }f tning to deny.

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concedes that "some" milk was 'N 4a impounded as a result of the e

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3.tj's eral thousand gallons? Are we 3 -..

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matters, is supposed to' under.

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' apparently do not mean 'the same thing to us that they do to'Mr.

Grendon, has he not, by $3 stren.

tously denying so many points in the Nation article,'corJirmed its essential truth? If the Na.

l tion article frightened the Gov.

ernor, he should be'even more

. alarmed by this sort of double.

talk.

JOEL W. HEDGPEn!

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