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Discusses NRC 641026 Summary Analysis of Util Proposed Seismic Design.Author Offers Gratitude for Careful & Sober Assessment of Merits of Bodega Site.Los Angeles Time 641101 Clip Scientists Plan Study of San Andreas Fault Encl
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 11/05/1964
From: Pesonen D
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE BODEGA
To: Price H
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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BAY- AREA CHAPTER Northern California Association 051 To Preserve' Bodega Head and Harbor a m a mamemann . s.rk.i.y 2 com.cni.

2820 Telegraph Avenue j ADVI5 ORS Ansel Adams 'E '

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John Emmons Harold oilliam Mr. Harold L. Price, Director .

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Francis Herring Dear Mr. P & e-D. 8. Luton William Penn Mott, Jr.

When the Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that Thomas Parkinson it had abandoned plans for a nuclear power plant on' Bodega Head i ,

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th9 8 p*d D l * "'Y" 'd ' findings of the. Division of Beactor Licensin6 In that one. ,

i respect our organization's reaction was identical to PG&E's' .

1 David E. Pesonen (

necutive sceretary "

On reflection the ' finest surprise was that the staff's i

findings were essentially philosophical in content. And for this l reason the October 26,.1964, Summary Analysis by the Division of i

l Reactor Licensing in Docket 50-205 should be enshrined in the l I

archives of the atomic age as a testament to human control of ,

this potentially mindless technical marvel. The staff observed, I for example, that the matter of the company's proposed a-seismic j design was one "on vhich reasonable men may differ." And the accompanying discussion of the meaning of " reasonable assurance" j confirmed that these were reasonable men. Dr. J. B. Neilands '

l at the University of California--long an opponent of the Bodega . (

installation and a frequently bitter critic of the AEC--observed after the analysis was released last week: "We can never be  ;

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l cynical again." This may be an overstatement; but there is no doubt that great courage was required to disagree vith the ACRS and the sanguine tenor of certain references to Bodega in the Commissions 1962 report on " Civilian Nuclear Power."

We should like to offer.our apologies for any harsh words in the past, our appreciation for a brilliant definition of the dilemma of nuclear power, and our gratitude for the staff's 1 careful and sobar aseessment of the merits of the Bodega site.

The entire performance was in the best tradition of'the public g g tfust. I hope that our feelings can be conveyed to each member ,

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mo t colitmuu,t81v m a.!irec nistained, it is hoped, w :ll j6e: tim opposite to ihat on the is etul in predicting earthiother side. One ol' the pt.rpo-quakes. Scientists know theLes of the new study u to find out if treeping is going general earthquakes, location but theyofcan.

future lon at any other place on the not tell when they m.ll oc- great fault.

Stewart Smith,' associate cur. professor of geophysics, will Understanding Needed set up a bank of a dozen sta.

=w*e need to understand tions to measure the strain along the fault. The stations the San Andreas Fault.,%11 probably be installed in which slices along 70;o o the length of California,,f,ithe Lake Hughes area,' 45 Imi. north of Los Angeles, wad Robert Sharp. chairmani of the Caltech division cf'where from 2theto 4fracture zone is mi. across, geological sciences.

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"Many turred quakes hiong have and this fault. oc bly will be comple ed by the we need to understand itslend of the year.

nature, mechanics and evem Measurements Goal i

.ts past history better thani Barclay Kamb, prefeuor we do now," he said. tof geology, will try to mea.

Sharp said the fault can be!sure the distortion of the i

considered a window in the ground by using a triangle of earth's crust. mirrors ancho"ed in the rock <

"It's true that it is a dirty about half a mile apart. TheI and cracked window, butjmirrors will reflect light into Mth skill and natience we'll an interferometer," and be able to see' mote deeply any movement of a mirror m ,

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planetary science, and Leon Its fracture zone is G milesjKnopoif, pmfessor of geo<

wide in some places, and is nowhere less than a mile l physics tigate at UCLA, the possibility thatwillinves.l' wide. The exact depth of the earthquakes release heat' fracture is not known, but it #

pmbably is about 30 miles. from the earth's interior.

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According to Caltech geol- professor of geophysics, will ogists, that part of California measure changes in the elas-west of the fault-that is, all ticity of rocks, and this infor-the coastal counties as far.mation could be usefulin an-n o.-th as San . Francisco:ti Couaty - is continuously l cipating earthquakes.

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rnoug north at a speed off part in the two-year study al about 2 inches a year, orith e f a mou s ia ult a r e more than 16 It. in a century.. Clarence Allen, professor of

'~'l geology, and Frank Press, Iprofessor of geophysics and l director of the Caltech seis-t mological lab.

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