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Forwards News Articles Covering PG&E 640506 News Conference Featuring Util Experts That Surveyed Alaskan Earthquake. Transcript Will Be Forwarded
ML20234E429
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 05/07/1964
From: Cook D
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To: Fouchard J
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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The devastating Alaskan all picture o the earthouake !!he' San Andreas fault, which carthquake has not altered effcet. l cstimate that ai nnst 'is about a mile cast of the the 91. inion of any PG&E cx. 80 perce:t of the buildin;splant site..

pcrts on the safety of the in Anchorage survived un-. The possibility of the' San company's Dodega Ifcad site damaged."

Iur a nuclear power plant Andreas ia u1i shifting its F,. C. Narliare, f o r m o'r courso and rupturing che.

s A' four ' nan technical chief engineering acologist where he said, is so remote team just back from an for the California Depart-that, "for all pracucal pur.

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poses it may be dis.

Alaska's cart,hquake damage incde tius qmte cicar yestcr' "tThe A 1 a s k a n carth-regarded."

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quaken and other s h o c k s such as the IDOG shock near The experts and hi;;hlights San Francisco clearly dem.

of their findings:

onstrate the importance of.a Dr. llugo Denioff, profes. fi.rm foundation. It is falla.

i s,cr of seismology at the clous to su;' gest that damage California Institute of Tech. that occurred at Anchorage Dology in Pasadena:

and Valdez cou'd occur.on "The Alaskan carthquake Dodega llcad."

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m e r ely reaffirmed know!.

F. F. Naute, PG&E's chief 1

cdge.we already had con. civil eng:ncer:

cerning the mechanisms by "important major struc.

which earthquakes e a u s e lures designed to resist carth-g damage. It is our u n d c r-quak genera,e s. such as power sianding of these mcchnisms, i

i ting stations, wf t h.

and particularly our undct-stood the carthquake and

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i standing of the San Andreas subsequent shocks b'one of.

fault system, that permits us the power plants in the carth -

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to state confidently that the gaake area was forced out Dodega site is safe for a of operation during the carth.

properly designed plant."

- quake because of mechant-l' Dr. George W. Ifousner, cal, electrics! or structural professor of applied mechan-faDure.

les and ch'il engineering at The experts discounted the.

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possibility of seis alc wave "I saw r.o evidence of damsgo to the prc 20 sed Bo-significant ' damage to any dega Head plant be:ause the buildings designed and. con. site is located on Ec Dodega 2

i structed.in accordance with Eay side of a 150 foot occan i,

.spproved practice.. News Cliff-reports dramatized t h o s c Benloff said it is "unthink-buildings.which were dam-cble" that any future carth-aged by landslides. These re-quake 1,n the area w o u I d ports have distorted the over occur anyuherc except along i c.. i _

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' THE $AN FRANC %CC CHRONICLE EDITofta i m. yoi are

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day they svare cor@ yester-W *, p.

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W quesuon is the gelogic ar.d f.' n!ter 4tn jngK'etion of Ahts ' 3 D i

  • atismic safety of the site. And -

i kan earthquake damage

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say,"Lesve it to ee Aionje.

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., plant at Bodega Head.

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" Benioff, scismology professor st the California Institue of. {s}' 3 5 @N hp !.f

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utodega site to some place

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  • crediting those who are try.

i e a rth q u a1: e hazards than area a service,instead of dia.

-; locations far*.her away," Dr.

Closer can be safer.

Ing to get the answers, you.

Beinoff said at a press con.

I ference in the auditorium of O should encourage further hear.

. the PGLE Lutiding.

f ings with presentations by er.

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'The possibility of the San pcrts to decide this irnpriant 1 Andreas fault's. shifting its enestion of safety.

course and rupturing else-

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where, such as through the

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Eodega ficad reactor site, is so remote that for all practi.

i-cal purposes it may be disre.

1 garaed." he aeded-ICalifornia Agency Votes

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!To Allow $82Million was ecewn est a fuwe earthquakes would be along i

the Uncs of existing faults.

Y. F. Mauts, PGLE's chief 1h. ? tic ear ower Plant l

solutely convinced" the Boo '

I Q Q y,n,,,[ fp g y ega plant could not be des-j troyed by a ciuake. And even

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ISS ANCEEM-The Caufornia Public Uul.

mph sil a t he 13es Commismon condiuonally authortaed can.

garded the question as
Haum n of n sammn muelear twer plut "p u r ely theoretical" -the at Camp Pend:eton. Caut.. subject to haal sp

, plant could be shut down Proval of the Atomic Energy Commia iott sately without releasing

deadly fallout on the Bodega The Atc attenov has inued a permit to SoMhm Cahforna F.dma Co.. San Dino cas area.

A Lettric Co.. Bechtel Corp. and Wesur:g.

' Dr. Georg,c W.

Ilopsner.

! professor W sipplied mechon 1 house Electric Corp. to bu!!c the plant. h is ex.

'icii and civil engineer at Cal-l pected to give final approva' anor:!y.

tech. repcried t;.at in AlasXad Bechtel. San Francisco, and Wesunghouse.

-~ i he found "no evidence of sig Pntnourth, are cocontractors en the project.

i nificant damage t cany bulldq, southern Cahtornia Edison. !.cs A.apics. MU own am of the piam and san D ego can uie ings designed and construct.

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ed in accordance with sp-TMS Plant Mit be ku en u 44 acre site ca proved practice."

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the Pac fic shoreline m no northwes: cna nr E.-C. Maritave of baeram.

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gest that damage that oc-AEC permit a pee. :.. tan i

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. cialist, ecnoluded from the trip P.D. Staff Writer that buildings properly designed SAN FRANCISCO-. Members suffered no "significar.t dam.

of a Pacific Cas and Electric age."

JCo. earthquake team just back He said Ia r g e landslides from Alaska today reaffirmed caused most of the serious

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4 their faith in the Bodega Head' building damage but said news nuclear power plant site, reports." distorted the overall Three consultants and a com picture of the earthquake ef.

pany en:tineer said they found fect.

nothingin their study that would "I estimate at least to per l

raise doubts about the safety of cent of the buildings in Anchor-i the Bodega proposal.

. age survived undamaged."

The four men revealed their E. C. Martiave, consulting findings at a press conference engineering geologist. empha.

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here today.

sized foundaticn mateials as a F. F. Mautz PG&E chief civil factor in building d mage..In engineer who led the team, said Valdez 'he said "the saturated damage in the Alaksan quake soft glacial material.underly.

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conditions and " failure to follow slumped and slid out into the known structural design and con-harbor."

struction sta6dards for earth.

In Cordova, "which is found.

quke areas."

.ed on rock thet i: rever:ly

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Mr. Mautz said major dam.hoir.ted. fre-tured and. fr.u'tcr j

age was toe result primarily of.Mr. Mar!!ac said. "na dane t in; and sliding o't the groondsl age to 5:M ";s o:d or new soils failures-" massive slump.

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was obsermi cr reported."

i (made possib!c by the presencc{

"of a bluff."

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'icondillons with the granite foun-l Lldction material for the pro.

posed Bodega reactor.

] Institute of Technology seismol-Dr. Ilugo Benicff. California 3p y,g, ga[urW '

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.ditor-PG&E's attitude toward trip " reaffirmed much that we a

quakes. Nothing shown by thel the public was early made appar.:

already know about earth-ent in its proposed defilement of Alaskan earthquake would ind Doran Park at Bodega Bay. Here a dlcate that the Bodega Head!

! p pular camping, fishing and just site is not safe."

plain dip your feet in the sea" i

i Calling the Bodega Head site recreation area is gofng to sprout au "exce!!cnt location for a ugly fowfoot-high. voltage mon-l nuclear reacter" Dr. Benloff 5'O '8' ' So, Senator Kuchel, The l

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.said the grankic rock providesl Chronicle and all you indignants:

l a good foundation and said thcl please be as interested in the pro.

possibility thr.t the San Andreas p sed deformation of this delight-carthquake fa.h m'ght shift its, ful pubhc natural setting as you g

course and move closer than are over the snterests of - the 1.3 miles from the plant is "so wealthy residents of Weedside, remote that for all practical ALLAN GORLICK.

purpo.*es it may be disregard-Haywa rd.

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w The third member of the team. Dr. George W. Housner,

' California Institute cf Techno!-

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