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!, Gsf.4 Cear 1/.r. Klapproth:
This is in responso to your latter cd January 184k.
concan#ng the January issue of the Fucific Cas aml I2ectric
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Cornpany's P G and E Progress which costalas essecepts from my address entitled "Vihy thaclear Power?" ddivarod at the untional conventico es Gigma Detta Chi on' Nov.m6w 7, 1963.
i The Pacific Cas and Electric Campsar did not advise me of its intention to use portions of my speech in their l
publication, nor was Iawa.rc of the artAele until it was callod to my attention by your letter as well as others that i
I have roceived. I regrat that this article with its hWho may have created an erraneous impression in your mind.
j I am coclosing a copy of my Norfolk spoach. I boliwe that a reading of the fall text of the remarks as doitvered is probahty the best answer I can provide to your 1setor at this time.
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1 (0 6 0 L.1 7.;6 2rg Glenn T. Seaborg Mr. Thomas D. Klapproch l
2541 PLodmont Avenue Berkeley 4. California i
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Dear Hr. Klapproth:
, coucernint to your letter of hamry ic Company's Mais la in of the Ancific Cas and Elec as" tdsich ceassine encorpts ross my address the h==ry
' F G and I natinami con-lear Power?" pressuted at entitled "4y ita Chi on Novesaiser 7, 63, vaar h of Sigma h speeches ultich hous delivered as iriman of the U. S.
Atemde Energy Comed on have been rol without restric.
considered in the public tion on their use and, therefore, er Company did not request, domain. h Pacific and Elecer to include the referenced nor did I senat, specif
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Is e, I was sawuere of the article in their publicat attention by your letter.
article until it was call to is with its headline may have I deeply regret that this art ly in the saisado of others, esented is your mind, and inc on tle mories of the da isysession that I uns cated in izy address, the I
proposed Bodets Head resc I would live nunct door fu11' tant of which is s= -9, having my fandly residence
.s to the atom and that I Id not f within the vicinity of usadern nuc1 power reactor built armi Is. Since the Caussis-
_qnggyped =~lae our r=.11ati<es and cision on the reacbqr proposed at B i
sion has not made a have a judanent as to hbechar this reactor l
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, be built and operated under our regula-could, or could At clae time I delivered t'ha addrese, I
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safety and is included the enclosed final text.
1 a copy of this 1stcar to Mr. Robert Gardes, f
It will I an asad President of the Pacific Gea and Electric Company.
also be placed in our Public Document Roosa where it will be f
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Dear Mr. Klapproth*
I This is in response to your letter of January
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the January issue of the Pacific Gas and Ele ric Company's 4 G and E Pronress"~'which contains exe.erpt from my address l
entitled "Why Nuclear Power?"
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~d it he national con-vention of Sigma Delta Chi on November 7, 963.
The speeches which I have delivered an hairman of the U. S.
E Atomic Energy Commission have been reJ ased without restric-tion on their use and, therefore, ar considered in the public domain. The Pacific Gas and Electr c Company did not request, nor did I grant, specific permissi n to include the referenced ae article in their publication. I fact, I was unawar article until it was called to attention by you ett d
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I I deeply regret that this article with its headline may have created in your mind, and poedibly in the minds of others, the impression that I was c9mmenting on the merits of the proposed Bodega Head reactor. I stated in my address, the Nh full text of which is enc $ sed, that I would live next door to the atom and that I wo61d not fear having my family residence within the vicinity of d modern nuclear power reactor built and operated under our regulations and controls. Since the Commis-sion has not made a decision on the reactor proposed at Bodega Head, we de not now have a judgment as to whether this reactor could, or could not,/be built and operated under our reguia-tions and controls./ At the time I delivered the address, I added a sentence t4 my prepared text to make it clear that my remarks were addressed only to the ger.ral subject of nuclear This statement safety and not to' any particular reactor plant.
is included in phe enclosed final text.
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Iamsendinga,/copyofthislettertoMr.RobertGerdes, It will President of phe Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
also be placed in our Public Document Room where it will be
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i,. availabic to the public. I hope that it will serve to correct any possible misunderstanding concerning the article which was published in the January issue of *P G an_d E Progress.f Sincerely, Chairman Mr. Thomas B. Klapproth j
2541 Piedmont Avenue Berkeley 4, California Enciosure i
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