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Charles de Yourt: Tideriot, Editor and Publisher Gaarse T. Canseron. Publisfer 192s su H55 Founded 1863 by Charles and M. U. de Young 7,PAGE 42 Monday, May 27,1963
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' ' SECRETARY OF TIIE INTERIOR Stewart L.
,U.dall has entered the heightening controversy
.over construction of a nuclear power plant at Bo-dega Head on the Sonoma Coast. Noting that the site of the proposed plant lies close to.the San
'Andreas fault-cause'of the San Francisco earth-juake of 1906-he expressed grave concern overc
.its hazards to public health and safety.
<.f In a letter to Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman.
s of the Atomic Energy, Commission (which will' ~-
make final judgment on the project), Secretary q
..,Udall observed that a major nuclear accident at l
- 1his power plant could make the Government diable to as much as $500 million in indemnities.
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. Spokesmen for the Pacific Gas and Electric
Cb. reply that they have consulted the best sci '
'entific and technical authority and have been ade-i'uately assured that a nuclear power plant may.
t he safely sited on Bodega Head. The Atomic En-
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s crgy Commission, itself, has recently received a -
-report from its Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, which submits the opinion that-un.
' der certain specified conditions "the proposed
'i,eactor can be designed and built at the proposed
'Jpeation on Bodega Head with reasonable assur-i ance that it can be operated without undue haz-ard to the health and safety of the public."
FROM ITS INCEPTION, this project has raised numerous grave questions and excited vig-
- orous opposition. Feelings have run high on both sides. Involved, besides the issues of public safety and. Government liability, is the dilemma posed by the conflicting public need for a new source l
of powgr (now afforded by the nuclear reactor) and
.for conserving irreplaceable natural values. The
-participation of a Cabinet officer now serves to
, point up the extreme importance of this contro-yersy.
Clearly, the right decision will not be reached
' "through emotionalism. The public interest alone, Eit must be hoped, will influence the Atomic En-
<ergy Commission after it has studied.the facts
!and heard the opinion of experts soon to be ex-
> pressed in a hearing at Santa Rosa.
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art L. Udall's objections to SAbdAikk i
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' Free'of Polib'* cal Taint the proposed Bodega Bay lA legislative inquiry into nuclear power reactor
- health and safety hazards that were labeled " specious and
' might occur from establish.
The Pacific' Gas and Elec-company 'and its stockhold'.
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phony" by Representative l
Craig Hosmer (Rep-Calif.)
ing a nuclear reactor at Bode.
tric Company formally 'de.. ers. They are not passed on yesterday.
ga }{ cad in Sonoma County nied yesterday that its'cus. to the customers.
was demanded Saturday by tomers "are / billed for' the
? Thirty nine disguntled cus-;
Secretary Udati warned Assemblyman Philip Burton.
company's, political, _ promo, tomers last. month claimed f he Atomic Energy Commis-The. San Francisco Demo.
tional and ~advr%ing activ., th,ese c,olsts were reflected t
sion that the Bodega Bay crat noted recent misgivings itles.,
- ,. the monthly bills.and as plant, being planned by the of Secretary of the Interior These expenditures, accord-tue commission investigate; Pacific Gas and Electric Com/
Stewart Udall over the loca.
Ing to a brief filed with the The PG&E's* brief ' asked I pany, might be hazardous be-tion's proximity to the San
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t he complaint,be' dis.
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the San Francisco Bay area Hosmer, a member of the are a scant 40 miles from t'his joint committee on atomic site," Burt'on said. "A large energy,' declared in Wash.
perc ntage of the dairy prod.
ington that earthquakes do ucts consumed in the San Francisco area come from this l
not present any "particular region'. San Francisans are hazard" to nuclear power re.
particularly aware of the im.
actors
- pact of disturbances along the San Andreas fault. One such "They are safe enough to disturbance resulted in the be put aboard ships at sea, San Francisco earthquake and have been designed for use; fire of 1906.
in airplanes and rockets and "I will introduce a resolu-I
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have been built to be hauled ftudy of he otent healti over rough terram on heavy and safety hazards of ' con-trailers," said liosmer, of structing an atomic j
Long Beach.
plant in this area... power
. The public.should be fully in.
liosmer said Udall might formed before a finaldecision have
- uiterior motives" in is made in this matter."
questioning the Bodega Bay
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retary was "trying to grab j
control" of all the Nation's t electrical energy.
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