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Urges AEC & PG&E to Abandon Use of Words Credible & Incredible Re Anticipated or Unanticipated Seismic Effects.Language Indicates That Responsible Parties Refuse to Anticipate Possibilities
ML20234F213
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 04/08/1964
From: Hedgpeth J
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To: Seaborg G
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Dr. 01enn T. Seaborg a Atomic Energy Commission l Washington 25, D.-C. I Dear Sirs I wish that the Atomic Energy Ccamnission and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company voit1d abandon the arrogant semantic irresponsibility manifest in the f use of the words " credible" and " incredible" in relation to anticipated or un-anticipated seismic effects. Quite a few people died in Crescent City, California, [

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  1. incredible". One often encounters in the newspapers the adjective " incredible" applied to the forces associated with a major earthquake. But nevertheless such f orces were released. Now I see by the papers that a new schene for'the reactor 1 at Bodega Head will compensate for the " incredible event of a horizontal motion of one foot". In an actively seismic region where the annual creep is in the order of two inches, I would submit that no violent or abrupt movement, even in the order of thirty feet, should be considered " incredible". What this' language really seems to mean is that those responsible - or irresponsible - for the plans to construct reactors in dubious locations simply refuse to anticipate the pos-sibilities.

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