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i 317 3, 1963 Joe Feuchard, Bees Service Branch Division of public Information, SQ n
3edney L, Southmick, Assistaat to the Banager for Public laferestion, SAN SEMBON REM &RES GE 300EG& R&Y REACTOR l
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Attached for year information is a sepy of the remarks recently made by Alexander Grandes, California Atomic Energy Coordinates, eencerning the FebE applisetten far a anclear poner reacter at pedesa any.
Too may be interested La kaseing that se maderstand Sena Blanc, l
[- l Mrector of the Compliance Regional Offise' at Atlanta, has been j
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sometime this early Fall.
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Granden remarks at Democratic Fiw 8.F., 6/26/63 b--
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taarold Price, ais, aq, s/ attack.
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1 TM__E'MCS~2 T@,3R.ELS,fgG; Remarks to the Decccratic Forun, E.an F'rs ncinco, Jena M, 1961 Your chairman indicated that I would speak in favor of N T s Dodosa pcuer project cad nr. Penonen would apeak against it.
knc's Mr. Peconen will spttk againct it; but I intend only to te!1 you what State agenciea have done, and you will have to judge for 9
yourrolvos whether that io "for the project.
a You have undoubtedly recognited acco of the conflicting neefc that clash here.
Dooming California fcces an onormous grcrath in itu energy requirements, the need to cet acide innd for recreational usa, a shortage of fossil fuel rasarvas, and problems of air i
pollution.
1 ours is tha worst plight in the n. tion with respect to encrev l
cupply and demand.
We ab endy p:,y the highect. price for fu?l; but I
our dilcamn is ccmpounded by two importnnt ftctors.
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high and increasing level of income and standard of living.
Clw.t implies n rising power consumption p,pp, cmi,t2 -- more fecos2rc.-
core autos (and car mileage), more construction of hm.:ca and high.nyc and demc, more cuim.ing pool pumps and heatore.
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l oopulation la climbing stacply.
The product of a rinin'j pr c.ysji; i
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derz.nd cnd a booming population ankes our energy requirement curva i
take off like an astronaut.
I What about our energy resourcea7 Coal ic.the chief fuel reecurco of our nation End the world; bur. there is no coal in tha Far '.ecu.
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Ccnl hauled from the east would be cocely Ei would rzhn ocr :.fr
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poll *2ticn difficulties intolerable.
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f We supply ono-fourth of our own needs and find it hardor each 3 :
year to discover new welle to Itaintal.n n 17-year recerva for th:.t production.,
We got the other 75 percent of our naturcl ps face.
cvery availabic source:
CannE En. ice, nr.d Lin cf the r.ine c....to ;
that produce any surpluc.
P.shching more than 1300 milca fc g.c
~j rnicos the market prico; and all prcducers 6:ennd and get ths incretco.
You can road the futtre in the prico 7nid fore gas ct the wcilhec.d by our whaleca]o sgpliers.,
In.1 $ yeart, 1947 through 1961, that price went up cycry year but one.
In 13 p. cc s the price multiplied six times.
A dininichins sup;dy to mwt incroncing denz.nd giveu littio hops of holdims dcun ecan unt.s wa tind on nmple nource of enercy cicouhere.
The Federr.1 ?:v.c Ccrmicsion reccgnized that we can't aff'ord to w. cur gt.a tic.ac it recently denied a pipeline perrnit to C.cliver gas t<. Ecw York on tim grounds that tio goc vould to bnr:e.d tc produce electricity and that thic in an uncconomic ucc of that c: cree cencodity.
All the potentini water pcwcr of the nation ic a cmall fraction of its needs.
Here in California 3 3 Water podur remains undeveloped where pccer production alone could juotify the cc:t.
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Our future hydroelectric croduction will ht. only incident:1 t.-
projects aimod at ccacervir.g water or prevonting f!oed d.r n.p:-
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"'he:c cro sono of tha renconc t;hy tio need nuclear powce.
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yield to that need, doos the c1w. nae bring r. not gain er loca..n other respectc?
I believe there is s. grcat gain.
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pcr.cor, wo avoid polluting the air with emog-pro 6ucing p cine m of combustion. We neke ecsthotic gainos the tall, ugly :trumr_:s.s of a fcccil-fuel powar p.lunt can bo repl:ced with construction that is inrgely underground.,
We ccn elimirz.te cache and E:!m end, if the forced alternative ic the une of coal, the cincora i
and nch it producca.
We cava money, and at a gretter rzte nn future shortnge m:hos the coat of focail inel rice.
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ths.t cuch savinga can b2 translated into cultural, educnticr:L recreation:1, and medicsl seine. thnt raire our standard of 1.f.".'sug.
We concerve fuels fer unos that nuclear powcr may nevar cupp).7:
operating cera, planos, and tr ino, performing countioco heati.co j
operatiotto in inductrici proces:.cs from brickm:hing to not:lle:<;y k
and ceramics.
We concerve the precious pot.rochemicale that cre.
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the r&w materials for the manufacture of drugs, pincticc, cad n 1
host of other org:nic chemicals.
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The list could go on and on.
I'll tid on)y two pointo ths.t have cpecial cignificanco for Co.lifornians.
By virtually climinsting the trnncportation cost cif f.cb nuclet.: power a
tends to oqu:0.ize regioncl pm;ar cc:4.a t1 ?:c. ugh.ut the natic.2 i
'-g and rcmove the competitive disadvcntTse '. tis cauco impocco on Califcrnia rianufacturera.
Seco:c.lly, as ::.hc leading state by
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fnr in the engineering, decign, and construction of.' rc:.cterc, pa with a great ecencaic attke in tho 7.cioperity of tic.? indunwr M
our own use of nuclear powar can accist the hsalthy g:cuth of W
this homo industry.
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So much for why wo need nucler: pouar tad rhoub? volccne itt lf cdvent.
When the EC h21d a h:aring to cenc.Mer the.b..;E:
project, I precented a litt2.c of thic. vicwpoint to co'.ints
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30 0 tocti:r.ony opposing the uns of nuclen pcvar.
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j co I shall here, in a moment -- the careful sy tem of ::.O.c.' L for protection of tha public hnlth end.mfoty that t/.e ?cC..~:.
Coverrcent hne established and Caliscrnic ias it; rov: 2 up:.
pointed out oseplicitly, hcvavor., thnt there was anothu cre. c which I was not an e:: pert end would net tcotify, n:.auls t -
- e any kind of pcrArr plant chould ho put on a:6aga Ibad.
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h:ve added, ao rr.y pcrconal opinien, the.t no one may juMJ y -
j to be an," expert" in that respac.%
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If wo 6 hnva "o:garte" of th:t kind in otr..te qmern7.enL j
cuppoco come of th:2m are in our Diviolon of ruchon and R.
l' They proposed buying como of the Eodeg: Ecri.n.ul to cds to our cyctos of ctsta beacher.; but the Itu p cwnto their tec'.f.:1: ;
j such land urJ. css the county's m.nter pitn cr.rm._rkc it for Qu :
purpoco.
Until recently, sanoma coup.y had no macter plan.
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i it did formulate one, it ep*.oroved linving an invector put 60 :ni' ' 0:-
tunblo dolinra into Bodega development, with prospects of au.il::.
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It also seined at the c'. uric to hava Ms.E put in nr.:" r ;":
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4 to the county a shcro read thab could be corniidered 'davelornm.:
of the tidelands. thereby letting the county meet the requin: :.t:
of a conditional grant of tha. tidelando m.ie in 1949.
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a:16 Par %s contented itocif with acq,1!rinc the ;cet._of the p:n!n:/21; that the county marked for recreational us in its muoter plcm The University of Califcznin unnbad n cogn:nt of the penincult.
for a mrine biology station, with frontages on the ocean at Horcoshoe Cove and on the sheltered Bodecs Earbor.
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' that tract.
Although cce of ite scientin':c would have p::cft =0 not h:ving a power plant ac a ncighbor, all but one of ita cito selection conmittee agree that the di::ndvutnga is mincr, and EL lenet one deems it an cetual enhanecm:nt of the value of the circ.,
l As an amusing sidelight, whercas much of tha controversy has j
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contered on opening the penincule for recreationni uno, nra t?ct t
the public hac acceso to it for the fi.rct time, there hcvc hcn p
co many curious visitors thr.t the Univoroity cleims they are J
t:cmpling the beaches into biologien1 usolomonecc and is osch.uq j
p-permission to restrict public cceecs.
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H Finally, let us see what our public agencina arc doing chaut t?.2 c-afety of this propoced plant.
Hero, on the iacue of enfcty, la j
where the most determined effort to block the project hac fo':.uscC, because fear is prchably the moct pcxrful. m.tiv: ting fore? th' p
can be arouced in connection with thia, matter.
Thers ic an elchorche process, established by fodaral chatec ni raguic.tiene h
and rainforced by Califcznia statutec, that brinec to b;;.
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the analysis of cafoty many of the finest ni.nde in th. r..tica.
What _I and others acquainted with thia nyats:r hnva cris rcp= to.r,y c
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"Uce the machinery of the law.
?A:,n ". insist th:.t thO f;03:m M
County Eonrd of Supervicora attempt an onalyzi:3 of the ecmplo;;
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sciertific and engineering prob 1cus here involved, ren't d:.:11 that the PUC make cuch an analyci.c in detid.1.
Eccogcima tha Fi Congrecs was wise in declaring that the very bust talcat of :l.n
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nation should be used in mnking that atudy and hence that tha discreti.on to pass judgment on the cafoty of a reacter cou' '. i be placed in state or local agencies but in a dcGoral c;nz
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can and does assemble the most outstanding acienticta arc om::.rre j
in tho various dicciplincr> related to react or rafety :.nd rnt -
thic body of talent e.vailchle to pxpcry cona.:u.ity, whatovar L':.-
local resources of knowledge and chill, ncroorcr, thy cyc t:n encourcges the contribution of knceledge that othere can mc.a in this analyais."
The AEC uses not orly its own technicel etzff but also the ch' of many others.
The Advisory Ccenittee on n:u.etor Safeger. dat an independent body of outstanding ccientir,tn in ulonr engi-neering, meteorology, hydrology, nnd other fialds related to
< nucicar safety, analycor every prepoced reactor and publichco its findings.
Other federal ngencies, such ca the U. S. PtE.ic Esalth Service and the Ecpartment of the Interior, lend theit specialized talents to the analycio.
The applicant's engincerini.:
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1 9lbo Propc.nad nedcya.?nsett P:::oj0c t Etge
'a aunff ani contnit:nts initicta Qt analyria b[ furniching n detailed accoutt'of all a specta of tha No'oct.
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c11 cor.;aivablu cea6f. nation of michp anP it gu dn donigned into the plant to cup with tb3m atruto the sado-j cituntions.
All of the information, the c::ctanges cf q.:estiona and ontwarr-l the anlyr,cs are unda public nnd are revice;e3 by Californis officLA19 and by interestod nemPers of tra publ.ic.
En 7.tmic fafety and Licensing Dor:d, consirdn or cuincers veracd in renctor cr. fey can.:Mors.g of two scientict' s
ccepainted with afministre.tive precadu ene tions and a.'au p e i
- n.Mucto a pb?.ic howing at which not only the in:it32n tanticanay of the applicant 1
the Anc etsff is concidered but slao overy othem bit o:1 an4 v.rtinent infor a tion that enn h brought cut hy interrogating k.hece witneseca and by listeniw3 to everyono tino has any ralevnn.
?.rculedge.
CaAlfornia can congratuinte itm1H the.ta 13 to 20 st;tten that have ascigned necnic oncrgy re g.of O L tha b cca:o a ont LYlitica F
- u. ming so:gency, only Governor Erawn recognined the imiertanca ol the S61tc in thia aren.ncone technically chilled
.'.n n diation cucty to scpucar -
Only Californis roatincly interrorce in L
such hearings without pecjudico inquiry la ec s(carching as ue can)c in ceder to in:uro that the i
pcsibly ac.2a it.
We hcvc established en os:tonstva syctua to revicw n21 zuch cpplimtione, i
making uso of the considerable talorts availchlo in our Pep: tns ntt j
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of Public Ecalth, Pich e.nd Gana, I?ntar Re.zon cerb j
7g P.ecrestion, Cont'ervstion, Agricultv:c, PcrkcaM I
and oth rst P J-alco juntly claim much of the credit for ce nero en.nd wc may I
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rocently given to Qa U., D. Pu'elin F.onith Se rvice nn$ th tennive rca.:
i 1.b regularly invite the vicuo of local goverrcatt.1 agsneie p-I 6
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represent them at such hearings.
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l It in tne right of anyone whoco int.cco to are adfect2d by a propoacd reactor to be heard by the revicuing Snrdt o
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ct that time and place that peruns t:ho balir.vc they have and it in information or c:gert knculedge bm.'ing on the caf ty of cha uadertshing ahould present it.
'Jn:ca of ue v:ho han c:.2iai:1 peced judgment on the cafety cd.de 2m c. p:nospensibilities with 3
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c".legcd lack of cafety.aM:od only t1m t others not pnco judg:r.:n^; pc: tat'e?
.hc We och tht 4b0 caco h; t::ied in til All of us h:ve teo much at ntaka;: court of competer:.t jurisdiction cet! not by vi.
to lot euotion cource with roupect to a prcblem of 2001x.d.ogy. gui@ cur F--
t,1c:cendor Grondon Stato Cevardinator of Atomic 3no::gy nvclopmsnt and 'tr.diation Protection N
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