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Forwards 640323 News Clips from Oakland Tribune & Santa Rosa Press Democrat Re Univ of California Geologists Supporting Choice of Plant Site
ML20235A081
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 03/24/1964
From: Southwick R
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To: Fouchard J
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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flodeg:s Head-that controver-l sial mass of oceanside r o c A f where an carthquake left its mark - is a suitable place for an utomic fueled power plant, two University of Califomia

gcologists said today.

The Bode;;a !!ead site is where '

Pacific Gas & Electric Carapany has already dug deep for found.

Ations for its new ruckar fueled l

power plant. i Governmen. o f f i c i a i s are afraid lim! traces of carinquake l l

faults fo"r.d in the earth may l mean the reactor redd he ripped apart by future quakes - spew- j ing radioactive material across  !

l the countryside and into the air.

PGIM geoksists and consult-1 ants insist the flaw has been dormant for thousar.dt of years

-long before the l$if> Sr.nck in a the San Andreas fau!! that! ]

wrecked San Francisen i The la;es vies.', , oi Dr. G..r ,

n:ss 11. Cur:iss ar.d Dr. Jatt F. .

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unSI they vi@cd it, Now, they Faid. *we can r.ce no rea3onble oojection to the j site." i' Curti.ss and En tndrn said their on the-scene .tudies show that "no majcr displacement  !

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,and termed it "not an adequate-lly safe loen!!0n for a nuc! car

! power Currermy. piant."Dr. Jr.cl IIc:!rpelb.

' director of the University 07 the

{ Pacific's marine hMrato.y at

'D1!bn Death to the sou'h cf the f tne na the Sonnma Coast, has!

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