ML20235B666

States That AEC Maintained Silence While Allowing PG&E to Dig Hole at Bodega Head & Inquires as to Reason for Silence. Requests That AEC Remind Util to Choose Safe Site

ML20235B666
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Site:	05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date:	02/12/1964
From:	Watters L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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February 12, 1964.

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' :.st:.r.: of the Atomic Energy Cocnission: ' ~ .. . L y L" hen the Pacific Gas and Elcctric Company was feverishly digging the hole on th b ~~

Bodega Ecad you stood silently by and watched this expensive shovel work proceed step by step. Io words of encouragement from you. No words of caution. Just silence as costs actntoi and the hole deepened. .

Considering that no construction per=it had been issued for the nuclear' plant, this was a strange game for two gromup organisatiens to be playing. All this scene lacked was a few of Hitchcock's dunny birds roosting in the bachground.

What was the reason for your silence and your inertia? Ylero you waiting for a ,

a,:ssage fro: outor spr.cc? Or were you waiting for P.G. E . to stop telieving its own press releases? Or could it be that the " gray areas" in your elastic by-laws left i

L you tongue-tied while this million dollar comedy was being enacted? /

How that the United States Ceological Survey report has punctured P.G.E's bag o

of hot air abot Bodega Head, I have a strong feeling that P.G.E. will concentrate on selling the public the fallacy that " modern engineering" will guarantee foolproof safety if a nucle:.: plant is located close to the San Andreas fault eene. You should recir.d ?.G.E. that a fundamental rule of n0dern engineering, when locating a dam , e a bridge, or a nuclear plant, is to pick a safe site rather than a highly question-cble one.

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