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Attached La a story from the 3.F. Meus Call Bulletin of January 27, 19 M, em PGEA's h e Me. 5.to its applica-tien for construction of a power reacter at Bodega.
Alae attached is a release by oppements of the application, a--ing a news ceafarence sa Jeamary 29,19M, in San Fran-ciace.
La addition, a copy is attached of an editorial whfeh appeared in the Ja==ry 14,19M, Sacramente BEE. Gene 31ame, Califerata Coordinator of Atomic Energy, has written the editor a rather lengthy letter en the subject.
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As stated cca }'RoWi;Meein, lifAE, 54, w/ attacks.
Harold Frice, REG, EQ, w/ attacks.
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J. D. Lyman, DF1, MQ, w/ attache.
R. W. Smith, Comp 1. V., 5&N, w/sttacks.
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Tilere in no evidence of By George Dusheck quartz diorite under Bo-any earthquake fau2 ting on offset by T o c h e r and ably a mile east of the re-dega Head were fractured.
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actor pit, although the and s h I f t c ; by strong I
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. They make these scien-eastern. boundary of the earthquake ra o ve m e n t s San Andreas Fault may ex-
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tend to within 1000 feet of from 2% to n feet.
bedrock more than 40,000 tific points:
The PG&E consultants' years ago,'two independent e FR ACTURES and the plL Major earthquakes believe the dikes were e x p e r t s hired by the faults in California rocks am almon certain to tah fractured at the time the P.wific Gas & Electric are well-nigh universal.
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Company told the Atomic e The quartz diorite un. farther off.
about S0 million years ago.
Energy Commission today. derlying Bodega Head is Conclude. Seismologist "as good as the i;ock that e Sec ndary faulting in e Lack of clear ruptur-3 l
the hedrock on B o d e g a ing in the overlying sedi-lu Tocher and Geologist might be f o u n d at any I.. C. Marliave:
site up or down the coast Head during a large earth' ;ments is proof there has "The site is suitable for for many miles, and is quake along the San An-been no major carthquake dreas Fault is not likely to faulting on Bodega Head in I
the proposed plar.t."
su p e r 10 r to most" as a be a hazard to a soundly the past 40,000 years, say Their findings conflict building site, constructed nuclear re-Tocher and Mar 11 ave.
e Those offsets or faults in several respects with actor or electric power Evidence for such earth-those of U. S. Geological found in the upper sedi, lP ant.
quake m o y e m e n t may Savey scienLists released ments are probably due W the AEC last week. The "to slumping on a grand '
e D o z e n s of 'Califor. be obscured by differential scale" of water-saturated nia cities, dams, aque. absorption of earthquake i
c.nflicts must be weighed r.r.d resolved by the AEC's sediments long, long ago. ducts., power plants, and energy in the overlying bridges are buiit on or sediments, say Schlocker Domic S a f e t'y Licensing e TIIE PIT IIAS been near m a j o r carthquake and Bonilla.
Eoard, which will hold a excavated down to 73 feet faults.
The two reports show 7.Qlic hearing in Santa b e1o w low tide level at Pcsa sometime this winter. Bodega Bay, but there is The two most important clearly that psychiatry is f a u 1t in the great no seepage of salt water conflicts between Tocher-n o t the o n 1y discipline a
n. c 1 e a r reactor pit, as-into it. showing the bed. Marliave and Schlocker-where e x p e rt s disagree.
enbed to carthquake move-rock of quartz diorite to be Bonilla are these:
The AEC's own board of l
it' 'nt by Julius Schlocker sound.
- The USGS geologists experts wi!!, like a jury,
! M. G. B o n i 11 a of e The active zone in the believe thht two dikes or have to make.up its own
.U.iGS, fs called "a minor San Andreas Fault is prob-thin walls of instrusive mind.
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7 PRESERVE BODEGA HEAD AND HARB03B(~ calcy 5, 2820 Tbl6.aph Avsnua TH 1-6399 (Area Coda 415)
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All metropolitan newspapers and radio & TV MEMORANDUM to Editors:
Press Conference; Wednesday, January 29, 1964; Sheraton-Palace Hotel, Market & New Montgomery Sts.
Subject:
San Francisco; 9:30 a.m., Room 262.
The prolonged controversy at Bodega Bay moves into a new, more vigorous phase at a 1964 " kick-off" press conference by the Northern California Association to Preserve Bodega Head and Harbor this week.
The Association will publicly release its latest publication, a 100-page document titled "The Battle of Bodega Bay."
It is a searing indictment of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's plans fo a nuclear power plant over an earthquake fattlt at scenic Bodega Head.
Recent events, as the Association will document,. indicate that t utility is attempting to " stiff-arm" approval of the project through the California Supreme Court and the Atomic Energy Commission--despit widespread opposition from public officials, goverment scientists, and the general public.
The corepany's public relations have taken a savage turn lately, said an Association spokesman in scheduling the press conference.
The' bompany has been trading on the public's trust and lack of f
political focus in one of the most cynically conceived projects in 1
the history of Northern California, he added.
I Furthermore, the company has counted on its ability to outlast i
public ill-feeling over powerlines, power plants and advertising Their strategy has been to roll with the punches unti:
power plays.
The " Battle of Bodega Bay,"
the opposition caves from exhaustion.
however, shows that an informed citizenry can muster enormous stayi:
power. There will be a display of all Note to editors and correspondents:
literature printed by the Association during 1963, copies of the year's financial accounting, as well as recent maps and geological diagrams.
Coffee will be served.
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.Th' *t "SC energy com..
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(Quclear Power Ru,lesp mission has done little to' hfbf'rrioFe^than passing
'airsureTthel ~publicT'of!the'~
r safety ~of, nuclear power' interest to California that the
{ahts and this apparent re' Consolidated Edison Com.
tacence has magnified the pany has dropped plans to
- l natural fear of the unknown. EET construct a controversial nu.
Nuclear plants should not clear power generating plant be built in populous regions i
in New York City.
or,.as in the case of the e
I The project was protested
^ Bodega Bay proposal, in a co NOT by residents in the Queens choice recreational area if PASTE section of New York who they can be built in 'more BEYOND Claimed nuclear installations remote places. Does not the are not safe enough for recent development of extral operation in large population high voltage ' transmission centerr De atomic energy lines make the location of.
1 commission had had the util-m these plants feasible la dis.D.OOING PROM I
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ity's application under con.
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since December, In any event,,,the AEC4 sideration l$1091 C " * I'* " ta tf2a l I
California's interest stems pubi,lcjust what. hazards it' i
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involved in..the j
j atanic power _ plants, Untilj J
troversy exists here over plans of the' pacific Gas and that is done there cannot be, Electric Company to build an an. In gent * * = %
atomic plant at Bodega Bay, M Y' 1
some distance north of San Francisco.
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a Nuclear generation 'of e!cc.
tric power is one of the-PLEAsg DO NOT OVERT.AP CUPPINGE great hopes' set forth for the f!
peacetime use of atomic
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The consumption of elec.
tricpower is increasing much more rapidly than the popu.
l lation. At the same time the I
prime hydro sites are being i used up and oil and gas for i
i the operation of conventional steam plants are exhaustible resources.
Nuclear energy poses an.
ideal solution of the problem, of the growing demand for i
electric energy. But it has' i
been presumed that to beof.
l maximum effectiveness the atomic power plants should i
be located close to the popu.'
lation centers.
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