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Greater St. Louis Citizens' C0191ITTEE FOR NUCLEAR INFORMATION l
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St. Louis, Missouri 63130 For Further Information, Call Lindsay Mattison PA-7-2646 For Release: Tuesday, May 12, 1964 I
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A future earthouake at Bodega Peninsula, California, could bring radiation disaster to nearby areas and force evacuation of San Francisco, 50 miles to the south.
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has drawn plans and exca-vated for a large nuclear reactor for electric power on liodega Head,1000 feet from the San Andreas fault zone, and immediately over a smaller fault.
If earthquake damage broke the container of the reactox, dangerous quantities of radiation could be dumped into the atciosphere.
The poss1ble results of such an accident and how it could happen 1
were described today in Nuclear Information, a journal published for laymen by a committee of scientists and other citizens in St. Louis.
The article by Lindsay Mattison and Richard Daly, gelear Information staff members, adds the effect of an earthquake to the " maximum" accident described by Pacific Gas & Electric in a report to the AEC.
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1 originators of the technique may also be called upon to evaluate its safety at Bodega " They recommend " deep and searching attention" both to this technique and to all the la plications of the placing of a nuclear reactor so close to a fault zone.
The public must be made acquainted with the risks involved for.
them in such a project, Mattison and Daly conclude. "The sooner all aspects of the contemplated reactor are made public, with complete analysis of the 4
implications of the plant site, the sooner the public issue of major hacards I
i can be resolved."
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i Although warning that " innumerable variables intervena to decrease
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or magnify any reactor accident" the science information journal emphasized the need to face the pocsible extent of the danger. Basing their calcu-latior.s on an AEC pu*alication, " Theoretical possibilities and Consequences of Major Accidents in Large Nuclear power plants," Mattison and Daly suggest i
this possible result of an earthqucke-induced accident:
"One may conclude that people within five miles downwind of the reactor would probably be killed and within twenty miles many of the people exposed would be very sick. Beyond that distance a few would be sick within the first week and such long term effects as increased leukentia, thyroid cancer and congenital malformations would eventually make their appearance.
For dictances hundreds of miles from such a release of radioactivity the AEC study suggests ' probable destruction of standing crops, restrictions on agriculture for the first year.'"
I The Nuclesr Information article takes into consideration a recent
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design concept to protect against ea-thquake movement up tc two feet.
3 Mattison and Daly question the assumption that earthquake movement would be limited to two feet, and quote geologists who have said that the " nature, 4
direction, and amount of displacement" ir the event of an earthquake cannot
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i Other aspects of the sa fety of the new design concept itself cannot j
i be evaluated at this time, the authors point out, since "necessary experience by which to judge the technique does not appear in the open scientific l
literature." They add that " experts in this field are so few that the 1
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