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THE GENERAL ELECTRIC Company stated today that it sees absolutely no
'ecn why the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's decision to withdraw its O ice.: ion for the 3odega Bay Atomic Power Plant should slow the intor-etional impetus of nuclear power.
George White, General Manager of General Electric 's Atomic Power I
Equipment Department, underlined that the same good reascns for applyinc 1
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"The decision on Bodega Bay hinged on the cuestior of the proximity of the plant to one of the world 's best known zones of
=eism".c activity, the San Andreas Fault."
White continued, " General Electric, PG&E and their consultants, the Advisory Committee on Reactor Sa feguards, and the Atomic Energy Commission all found the plant and its features would have provided for operation without undue hazard to the health and safety of the public."
White pointed out that the only doubt expressed by the AEC concerned the ability of the structure to withstand a hypothetical th ree-foo t shear movement brought on by earthquake, and the inability to provide any experi-mental or experience proo f-tes t of the novel design to keep the structure intact.
PG&E found this minority view to be sufficient cause to withdraw their application.
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"The Bodega site was the specific problem in this case," he said.
"With CaJifornia one of the nation's two highest fuel-cost areas, with the State running out of hydro-electric power sites, with the growing scarcity of fossil fuels in California, and the fact that nuclear power plants emi:
no combustion products, there is no question but that nuclear power will 1
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