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Requests for Documents Re Abandoned Power Reactor at Bodega Head,Ca & Repts on Proposed Reactor by City of Los Angeles Dept of Water & Power in Malibu,Ca.Related Info Encl
ML20234F253
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay, 05000214
Issue date: 01/25/1965
From: Rissman M
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To: Seaborg G
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. . - .f Honorable Glenn Seaborg. Chairman, ,

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Washington, D. C. 20545

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In the January 1965 issue of the Architectural Record there is an article about the now abandoned  ;

power reactor at Bodega Head, California. The article ~

mentions report made to you by the seismic hazaada j investigator of the Department of the Interior and ]'

reports written by your Committee on Reactor Safeguards, and your Division of Nuclear Licensing. Also mentioned is a brief description of the proposed construction method, "an unverified principle," and studies written-by Nathan Newmark and. Robert Williamson, the former of the University of Illinois. I would appreciate very much.your sending me copies of any or all of these writings that you are able to, or advise where I might obtain same, (along with their correct titles, etc.).

In addition I understand that,the AEC has prepared j certain similar reports on a proposed power reactor  ;

proposed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Water l and Power, in Malibu, California. As this is only a few l miles from my home I am very much interested in this I

> project, and anything you can send me on this will be i greatly appreciated. l In addition to the seismic problems of these stations, which is my primary interest, I am also in-terested in the whole projects. l With thanks for your kind attention to my request, 1 I am ,

yours very truly  ;

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h ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20545 No. G-13 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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AEC RECEIVES MEW INTERIOR DEPARTMENT REPORT

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ON SITE PROPOSED FOR BODEGA HEAD REACTOR

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  • 1. U; m N .w (G,2 g s The Atomic Energy Commission has received a further g - 1pa ogical report from the Department of the Interior on a N oite proposed by Pacific Gas and Electric Company for a nuclear power plant at Bodega Head, about 50 miles northwest of San Francisco.

This further report was requested by AEC Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg in October, 1963, following receipt of a geological and seismological report from the Department of the Interior. Subsequent to the period covered by this earlier report a fault was observed at the location of the )

proposed plant. Dr. Seaborg requested a further geological l report from the Department of the Interior with respect to l this fault.

The reports from the Interior Department have been referred to the Commission's Regulatory Staff, which is continuing its review of the application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company for a permit to construct a 325,000 elec-trical kilowatt nuclear power plant at the Bodega Head site.

These reports, together with information from other sources, will be studied by the Regulatory Staff, its expert consult-ants, and by the Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. The Coast and Geodetic Survey of the U. S.

Department of Commerce also is assisting the Regulatory Staff in its evaluation of the seismology of the Bodega Head site.

A copy of the letter from Interior Secretary Stewart Udall to AEC Chairman Seaborg transmitting the new report is attached. Copies of the report are available for inspection (more)

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I at the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street NW, Washington, D. C., and at the AEC office at 2111 Bancroft.

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(NOTE TO EDITORS AND CORRESPONDENTS: This announcement is being issued simultaneously by the Commission's San Francisco Operations Office in Berkeley, California.) j

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J ATTACHMENT UNITED STATES ,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR l 0FFICE OF THE SECRETARY l Washington, D. C. 20240 l

Dear Dr. Seaborg:

January 16, 1964 j I am transmitting to you Geological Survey report-(TEI-844)  !

entitled ENGINEERING GE0 LOGY OF THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SITE "

ON BODEGA HEAD, SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. This report by Messrs. Schlocker and Bonilla, has been prepared in response to your October 3 request for further geological investiga-tions of the proposed nuclear power plant site -- especially the fault which had then been uncovered in the bedrock of j the excavation for the location of the proposed plant.

1 The most pertinent finding of the study is summaIized in this final paragraph from the abstract:

" Faults that occurred on Point Reyes peninsula in rock similar to that of Bodega Head as a result of the earth-quake faulting that occurred in 1906 indicate that if some future earth-quake, in which fault displacements comparable to those that occurred on the San Andreas fault zone in 1906,-

took place near Bodega Head, rup-turing of near-surface granitic bedrock would be expected somewhere  !

on Bodega Head."

l I understand from Survey personnel that Messrs. Schlocker and Bonilla have kept close contact with AEC Regulatory Staff and have apprised them of work as it.has progressed.

Sincerely yours, (sgd) Stewart Secretary of the Interior Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg Chairman, United States Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D. C. 20545 Enclosure

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