ML20234E902

Forwards Je Macdonald Study Entitled, Meteorological Aspects of Nuclear Reactor Hazards at Bodega Bay

ML20234E902
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Site:	05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date:	06/24/1964
From:	Pesonen D NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE BODEGA
To:	Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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To Preserv5 Bodega Head.and, Harbor i

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AIR MAIL Dockat: 50-205 John Enwnons Herold Gnom Dr. 01en T. Seaborg, Chairman

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Weldon P. Hoold Washiugton 2$, D.C.

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Dear Dr. Seaborg:

p.ncis He,rin, Enclosed herewith are five copie[of A recently completed study by

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. Physics, University of Arizona. Dr. McDonc1d is a consultant to this

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Kenneth Anwoth Association'.

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IJ The report is the g:ost exhaustive analysis yet available of mete-g Odd orological hazards associated with the proposed 325-megawatt boiling

.g water reactor planned for construction on Bode 6a Head in Sonoma County, 1,

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Q the most complete meteorological studies of the northern San Francisco 9-l.

Bay Area ever conducted.

c8 We are particularly concerned--in view of the serious ambiguities g

surrounding the geology and seismology of the proposed reactor site--

with Dr. Mcdonald's findin6s with respect to a low coastal inversion

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in the Bode 6a Bay region, the hiSh frequency of such inversions, and the particularly strong prevalence of vinds blowing toward the metro-ET,1 politah Bay Area.

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These findin6s would appear to argue persuasively that no ambiguity c-g should be allowed to remain over the possibility of seismically induced

[n_i rupturing of the reactor containment. Since these atmospheric con-

-g ditions render the Bodega installation essentailly an "in-town" reactor, any softening of the conditions set forth in Mr. Harold Price's

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letter to the applicant of May 19th would not, in our opinion, satisfy 5

the criteria of Senator Clair Engle's Jeint Resolution No. 167 Additional copies of Dr. Mcdonald's report vill be supplied on request.

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Purpees. To wed for preservation of the scenic ond historic hoodlands of Bodego Boy and to inevro the u..

-ecological integrity of the surrounding rnerine nvivenment.

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