ML20234E096
Text
___
i,.
l l
i November 17, 1964 l
1 i
i Vice Admiral H. G. Rickover, USN
~
D[
Hanager, Naval Reactors
. Division of Reactor Development U. S. Atomic Energy Commission i
Washington, D. C.
Dear Admiral:
You may be interested in the attached editorial from the ELECTRICAL WRLD.
I suppose we can't hope-
')
to please everybody.
i t
Sincerely,-
.m
/W
/f:el f/l/LG' Y
s Harold L. Price Director of Regulation
=
i
Enclosure:
Editorial Comment -
" Post Mortem on Bodega Bay" j
c.- h d' y?
/
. rL -1. /. c.;,.
?
/
! 't,
-?
O REG : DIRlld b/'
omer >
/a-SURNAME >
~--
11/.17/649m 04rr >
Fbrm AEC-318 (Rev. S.63)
/'
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,n inw27s.i-s t'r.'
8709220281 851217 i
A 3.m._,
..a...
g. i..
I -
Q 4
- 2. '.-.
r _ _ _ __
fBOM T
6 I
'CONTR MBER' M
- 57 ACTICA CCMPLETION DE ADLINE V
l d
DATE HT 51.E LOCATION
~
d 1
(.T O ACTION PROCESSING DATES
'ggg INFORMATIONAL COPY DISTRIBUTION Ac knowledged
- - ChoIrman ADNS JOM
. c.
I"'" R
_00C 5LR i Fine k DESCRIPTION N ho,snnal D Capy D o'h r N"M*
_- RC
'ut *,
A.D.
3 e
REMARKS ifr-8* ting drafa editorial for aseeu6er 1sses of Baial
)
'Este,. Aer esaments.
ear
- T k
O """
g.
d
/
7u
[
~
=
. ~.
l@
h j REFERR!!O TO
_DATE ll PREPARE FOR SIGNATURE OF Ikr
- -M/sttach,t 11/16/
CHAIRMAN
__. 3 Il DIRECTOR OF REGULATlod '
4-
..f(Specify) f
}'l C l
h.
g 3~.
DO NOT DETACH THl3 CCPY
. t.,,.
E'.
4 DIRECTOR OF REGULATION COMMUNICATIONS CONTROL
., g.
"Fam HQ.32 V.44M U.5IAEC '
_ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ ~
.t
- s
?)
g So
.2 ef rar act$aa-5* * * * = 6au' 'h's -
'ar coaci MEMO ROUTE SLIP ninn AEC-93 mav. May it, IM7)
Note and retu n.
For signature.
For inf ormation.
r Attached are Bodess clips INifl ALS flLMARK$
TO (Name and unit)
Joe Fouchard, DFI, MQ
__1._L L_RKaminar._ll.f! 5A "What_Aditert.ata_Saying"
/ /
2e Santa Rosa Press Demscrat 11/8/64:
" Japanese _Shakan hy__%A=_m"
" Move Starts for State Park at Lodega Kead" i
ifarold frice, REC, ifQ ao-me.1, o,n i r, u.g 1,ec.c en ch, maten, PMt R@t" TO (Neme Sod unet)
Rote stei-
? (19
/
\\
f) :
oArt
['
j R. L. Doan, REG,llQ TO (Name and WNil INiflALS RLMAPK$
i R. W. Smith, Corapi. V., SAN DAIL t
FROM (Name and unit)
RLMARKS i
R;dn2y L. Southwick j
Anst, to the Mgr.
I for Public Information SAN j
PHUh1 NO.
DATE i
11/9/64 USC OT HER 5ept FOR ADDttloMAL RLM ARKS U $ GovtReutut FRiMriNG orrect <190 422007 l
s t
OPINION ROUNDUP What Editors Are Saying i
S>n rmum 4>>n,. m e
// 7 Here are cicerpts from recent edit rials /4y 1
distinguished contemporaries tu North ern California. published b11 s'om i
~
l non o
cto Afte
,t cep' a
rter a aign at ast uo na Bodega Safety (Stockton Record)
A divided opinion within the Atomic Energy Commission is almost certainly
,r, J'/;G. 'fL-~~,-Q responsible for the abandonment of plans Move SfGTlS e/7/6 /
for an atomic power plant on Bodega Head. The licensing division recom.
For Stafe Park /b meded againa conuructiom the ad+
At Bode 9a Head sory ' committee on reactor safeguards ruled ravarabir-t SACitMtENTO (UPO-The Evidently the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. interpreted this division to mean that chairman of the Assembly an AEC permit would be denied....
Committee on Natural ite.
i sources Saturday recommend, The PG&E has made a wise decision, one that will earn wide public approval.
ed the estabibhment of a state park at flodega IIcad, So strong was the element of imcertainty tegarding the Bodega installation that no Assembl man Edwin L.
3 Z'llerg. D Sacramento, asked amount of reassurance would have suf.
ficed to relieve the public's apprehension.
State itesources Adminntra.
l tor llugo Fishcr to proside l
(San lose News) the committee with informa-l tion on how the State Division The decision of Pacific Gas & Electric of Beaches and Parks feels Co. to drop plans for a nuclear power about the proposal, plant at Bodega Bay must have been a
{
s l
The lindega ficad site was difficult one to reach.
recently discarded by the Pa-
"We would be the last to desire to citic Gas and Electric Co. as build a plant with any substantial doubt a location for a nuclear power existing as to public safety." said Robert plan t.
II. Gerdes, PG&E president.
Z'flerg said it would be an PG&E has acted in the public interest ideal park propern.
in abandoning the Bodega Bay plan.
Though the Bodega Bay site is out, nu-clear power plants are destined to be the nation's future power sources. Gerdes re-affirmed his company's determination to pursue this line of development. It is to the interest of Californians that PG&E do so.
(
,4,.. 4 4.t L, ws "A 'N A %s i&A" A PLANT k
D
\\
LET THE PUBUC SPEAK Japanese Some Morals Seen i
In Long A-Plant Fight Shaken EDITOll: It is of course im. the mistake that has been possible to summarize the made, to say nothing of the expend of V.
0ea events of the past six years in e nsiderable, money. iture stockholders In a real J
one article, although Don Eng. sense the PG&E has been as TOKYO (UPD - Japanese dahl made a noble try. Le mucn a victim of the present electricity experts expressed full history of this affair will system at the people. One step concern today over reports that require a book, and more than to avoid a repetition of thi,s a big American utility had with-one rnay be written. because would be to make the acquisi-drawn its plans to build an there are some morals to this tiu of property by purchase or atomic power station in Bodega story that should not be for-c ndemnatior. subject to the Bay, Calif.
gatten'
. consent of the Public Utilities The utility Pacific Gas &
Commission at the utset. The Electric Co.,', ithdrew its plans
)
w ca m r I to his ta e c frightening power of condem-after an Atomic Energy Com-
,g g
natim which the PG&E has mission committee said that an whien these things are done in rnust s mehow be limited-atomic power station in Bodegs our society. Undoubtedly there An m ral concerns the Bay probably could not stand was a prehaunary conditkn-people of our local goverD-up against earthquakes.
" Y E" f
ments - both elected bodies The Japanese experts said an n ary organiza-withdrawal of these plans might which has cultivated and no lions as taxpayers, associa-Louch off a similar wave of doubt honeally be he'. cs the tions. There are o'.her values moves egamst the establish-image tnat it can do na wrong, than tax revenues in wr socb mer.t of a proposed power sta-tnat whateter it daes is for the ety, and one of the most dis-tion in Japan and might even best interests of the people. turbing aspects of this affair beccme a political issue, With this is the corollary no-has been the willingness of Japan, like most of the west non that the company could many people to be concerned coast of the United States, lies not pmsibly make an error in with tax revenue at the ex-on an earthquake fault, and ex.
pense of the county's umque perts here feel that if the build-Y ti b
scenic and recreational and ing of an atomic power station cates of the project. But cor-scientific asset. The reapprais-in Cahfornia can result in criti-porations are made of people, al may be at;onizing to some cism the same results may be and all people make nustakes. but it must be made, for encountered here.
I think that a better system these intangibic va'ues fin the Japan presently operates two of regulatmg and examining tax appraiser's senset are the atomic reactors-one manufac-project.s of this type at the values which attract people to tured in the United States and outset would have prevented Sonoma County.
another made in Japan-at To-4"WeC Let us hope that these les-kai Village east of Tokyo.
v-4.u..u sons will be taken to heart 50 that the quotation from Luther Burbank at the bottom of this page will always have mean-g y tng.
JOEL W. IIEDGPETil, Sebastopol s
\\
_