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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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gcologists said today.

The Bode;;a !!ead site is where Pacific Gas & Electric Carapany has already dug deep for found.

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faults fo"r.d in the earth may 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

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