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s Covernment geologi4ts commonly accepted west-i have con <.luded that a ern boundary.
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by scientists employed by 4 icar reactor pit mi Dode;;a the t,. S. Geohigkal Sur.
J Ifeio! was cau.scd by earth-vey. The A1:'C has already
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asked sei.3mologists in the in event,of an earth-U. S. Coast and Geodetic l
quake as beg or bigger S u r v ey to analyze the f thai} that 01 A p r. ! 18, Schlock.er-Conilla r e p o r t ite,. the earth on both and other data, and esti.
. ides of the pit fault mi;<ht maw the probability of
- 1 be shif ted from 2% to 11 carthquake dama::e th the l
feet, a final r e p o r t by nud u icactor if built ua I
Julius Schlocker and M.
Bodega ilead.
G Bomba to the Atomic The final decixica a ; ta Energy Commis., ion sug-svhether to grant l'G( L:
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a construction permit.for l
S31/.I.I.MI: carthquake.s the 02").000 kilowatt, uran-
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disturb the pit, however, will be made following a l
they cons.lude.
public hearing in Santa i
Hosa bdore the AEC's Ad7 i
technical ;Wisny in a :;7-page l
Committce on report Schlucker and lion-uilla virtually reject the'
.Bealtm Safegumis.
j alternative p o s s i bilitici A DATE for this hearin.;
i that the pit f ault was 14 cxpected to be a n-.
caused by landsliding or nounced soon.
by differing maces of sud-In the current ri port, '
imcuts oVer1ying th.
, relea,cil bv A l'C today, i
i gr mite-like o n ; rock.
{ Schlocker Und Bond!c c.ill l They aie unable to an i attention to two "dik. c' or l
' m er one key que:. tion, I thin walls of non$ranhie
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l rock croexing the pil (ault j
IInw r e r e n a n as the i at nearly light an,t;le.
The-e have been nhined l carthqual.c faultin:t in the l in relation to each other bedrud and overlying ned. '
imcuts?
l we.-t and east of the pit Therefore the fault may ' fault.
Le a merc geolot;ical fo. nil, i
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i shearing t h o u s a n d s ol' years ago.
I GR IT MAY EC of more recent origin, with the (.vi-dence for its age hidden l
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Sch:ocker and Bonilla
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call the ACC's attentioa, however, to nrong evi.
dence that revere f a ult-ing accolnpanied the IP00 earthquake as far away from the main San An-dreas 1'ault zone a.4 -1,0u0 i f eet.The !'Cfd re..ctor piti l
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WEMNESS R @ EST G o y e r n m e n t geologi.sts AEC Chairman Glenn T.
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\\f. G. Donilla and Julius' Scaborg requested the cur-l0 gQgGgg 9
HEAD Schlocker concluded in their rent report last October "cport that the fault in the after the fault was discov.
'3-foot deep reactor shaft M>
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5 000 kilowatt plant.
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In the event of another j
carthquake equal in shock. Udall submitted the findings i
A sharp and trolent
- to the AEC yesterday. Sea.
carthqualsc-of unde (cr.
1 power to that of,the one in! borg is expected ' to cal! -
0 Inined age-cracked the another hearing on the con.
5u fac granitic r k o carth,i Pacific Gas and Bodega IIcad would be ex troversial plant soon, n
l'.lcritic Co/s nuc! car rc+
[gg pected to rupture."
The PG&E said last mght that it has not formulated arlor pit at ilodega llead.
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"The nature, direction, and alternate plans for the Gm ernment geologists rc.
3 amount of displacement can-t caled esterda -
not be predicted, nor can the Bodega power plant site if W
location of such ruptures."
the AEC decides to reject And it s possible, they i
y the company's application to said in a report to the h*H e,
j DISPLACE 31ENT build its reactor on it.
' Alomic Energy Commis-Q)
But, they added, " judging "That's a bridge we would fr m the surface rupturing; crosse when we get to it,"
sion, that it could occur again "if, in some future Hmd n
n.t Reyes a spokesman said.
carthquake, surface rup-g Pcmnsula after the 1906 lure comparable in severs
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earthquake, displacement on
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ity to that produced in is either horizontally or veri.
1906 occurs on the San t
b cany, should be expected."
Andreas fault...."
9 The conclusions were A PG&E spokesman said, 3 / SAN reached after careful study hmtever, that geologic and ERANCISCO of the main fault in the pit scismolocic consultants re.
and comparison with similar tainm! hv the firm to evalu-
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formations left by the 1906 ate it,c liode.;a site have con.
E earthquake farther down cluded. "that it is suitable the coast at Point Reyes.
Dur the proposed reactor "
- Scientists traced a crack Radio carbon incasure-k "They Advise us,"
said left by an earthquake rnents indicated that the re-
< L. Sibicy, general manager actor shaft fault "may have of PG&E, "that the plant originated 42,000 to 400,000 OOdega---
can be built safely by appli.
years as e cation of sound scismic, RECENT See Page 18, Col.1 ReaCfor Me
- n the ther hand," the report said, "it is just as re-sonable to postulate that dis-CTCCkGd placement in the granitic l rock at some more recent:
time ruptured the lowest of
' From Page 1 sedimentary deposits :.. In civil and structural desi;;n in the pit."
view of known geological and Yet it was concluded by s e i s m o 1 o g i e a 1 consid-the" two scientists that ani crations..."
extremely strong earthquake' The report of the PG&E could shift carth and rock
. consultants, he said, will be on both sides of the reactor aubmitted to the Atomic pit 2% to 11 feet.
Energy Commission within a week or ten days and be made public.
lie said there were sever-al areas of disagreement be-tween conclusions of Govern-ment geologists and those re-tained by.PG&E.
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5 ItMitKlil.MY - flodega licad. AEC regt.4 contended Giat al ' ruptured the lowest of the sedi.'
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the pro;wed site for a nuclear though Bodega Head is outside mentary deposits.. "
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s cae inr. could be shaken severe. the San Andreas Fault zone, a An carthquake much weaker ly by a sirong carlhquake along strong quake could cause fault. than the IM quake would not.
the San Andreas Fault, the U.S. Ing as much as r. mile outside be expected to affect Bodega i
the zone, ficad the report added.
O ega l Ceolo:*n al Survey sa.d today.
i "If in some future earthquake A PG&E spokesman said the A %ie as strong as that surface rupture comparable in findings of the. government re-which m a 1. in IM could heave severity to that produced in 1906 port were at odds, with the con-
. Cantinued fram Page l' i.mnite there several feet up, occurs on the San Andreas clusions of geologic a,nd scismo-Benioff. professor of scisr +;;y,,
de n nr rideways, the report Fault, the near-surface granitic logic consultants retained by the b o t h of California Institute of mid rock of Bodega IIcad would be Company.
Technology. Dr. Housner also is
'the l'acific Cas & Electric expected to rupture," the re.
, They advise us that the plant Co. has asked the Atomic En-Port said.
can be built safely and reliably P8Ident of the Earth ""ke E""
9 arcy Conunission for a permit to 11 e a n n o i be determined by the application of sound scis, gineering Research Institute.
l.uil.1 a 25 megawatt nuclear whether the faulting found on nue, civil and structural design "It will be up to the AEC to j
lw.cr plant on the site, north Bodega ilead is acliue or inae.
" said S. L. Sibley, vice evaluate all of these rc, ports and
'r*sident and general manager.
to weigh all other evidence in ni l't. Reyes Peninsula. Work to tive, the geologists said. It could Pe lireparc the site for construc-be that the last quake took The PG&E consultants includ.
making its determination as to hon is underway. But the AEC place there more than 42,000 ed Dr. George W. Housner, pro-the suitability of the site " Sib-is still gathering evidence be-years ago. but "it is just as rea. b**3 eng. applied rnechanics and ley said,.
- *I fore scheduling hearings.
sonable... that displacement (8v8 meering and Dr. Hugo He said the report of the com-The report today, prepared at... at some more recent time:
Continued Page 3, Col. 4 fra"ns itth" t h AEC s ort and would be made public at that time.
Sibley also said PG&E was hopeful that public hearings would be called rr soon as pos-sihic.
The reactor site is about 750 feel from the edge of the San Andreas Fault rone. Dr. Pierre Saint-Amand, a seismologist. re-ported last summer that he be-lieved Bodega Head to be.a "very poor location" for a re-actor. He said there was a prob-abihty of a great earthquake at least once a century and that "hence, another may be expect-ed within the lifetime of the (proposed) plant."
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d ca c Council directors yes-The measure goes on to urge O.2 Three Fror2fs
.tcrday unanimously passed a Chairman Thomas Bane of the jrciolofinn criticizing the Assem-Rules Committee and speaker (Continued from Page 1) i gbly llules commitice for drag-of the Assembly Jesse Unruh basis of their studies en Point
- ging its heels in carrymg a "to exercise immediately the Reyes " displacement on the or.1 g,g,. Gmup The Western Water and ymrty of the utility's nuclear prerogatives of their respective der of a few feet either hori-l
- r vine at Ende.a Head.
cffices to quiet these unfortu-zontally or vertically should be' er Users' Council's resobtion Tan in L.I.innlon D.C. thc,nate allegahons by assigninganticipated."
noted that Consolidated Edison g
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g nte Department reported to the Bodega study to an appro-The U.S. Geological Survey Co. of New York Jan. 6 with-r gthe Atomic Energy Commis priate interim committee for an report draws no conclusions drew its application to the ABC unn today that an earthquake unprejudiced, exhaustive and 11 bout the safety of the site.
for construction of a 1 million' Jcnutd enme rupturing of bed, honorable public investigation They say there is "no basis for i
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pmed nuc! car power plant at communicated to the citizens of the site "would mcve in prefer-kilowatt nuclear power plant at g
,1:ne!c;;a Head.
the state."
ence to other faults" on Bodega Ravenswood in the heart of New g Yhe third assault came from The' assembly rules commit.
Head.
York City.
ihr V.'estcrn Water and Power I
l.9rs' Council also meeting in tee had adopted a resolution byAn earthquake " appreciably The council said Consolidated i F:nno last weekend, w hie h AHred Alquist, San Jose Demo-less severe than the 1900 earth.
F a d a resoluticn urging aban-crat, urging the Bodega Head quake would not be crpected to Edison gave economic,rcasons,t for its decision to withdraw.
investigation.
cause rupturing on Bodega However, "It is clear that wide-d ament of the lhxicga Bay Head."
spread public opposition to the
- b m m favor of early develop-Interior Report The report was requested in nuclear facility irt New York cf an extra hi;;h voltage The Interior Department's October by AEC Ch airrdan' had a strong bearing on the j
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mned clcetrical trans-conclusion was reached in an Glenn T. Seaborg after an caril ' decision also."
mr son intertic between the Pa-additional report requested by er report by the geological sur-ethe Northwest and the Pacific the Atomic Energy Commission, vey indicated presence of a Southwest.
which is considering an appil' fault at the site of the proposed The California Democratic cation from the PG&E to build 1 plant.
Countil resolution states that alle; ations of the PG&E's icb. the atomic power plant.
IrW S$cutant Stewart L.
2 Geologists Julius Schlocker Udall opposed construction of byist pressure tactics have beenjand Manuel G. Bonilla say they I the plant on grounds it would
" abetted by the Rules Commitlcannot determine if a fault be unsafe.
,i Udall, in the letter to Mr.
Seaborg, cited a report by the
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geological survey indicating that
, crossing the s.te of the proposed rock at Bodega Head was siml-i reactor is " active or inactive.
lar to that which ruptured at But they conclude "If in some Point Reyes during the 1906 future earthquake, surface rup.
San Francisco e a r t h quake.
ture comparable in severity to
- northwest of San Francisco, Po nt Reyes'is about 35 miles that produced in 1D00 occurs on the San Andreas fault the near while Bodega llead is about 15 surface granitic rock of Bodega miles beyond Point Reyes.
Head would be expected to rup-In case of a similar quake, tun.
the report said, " rupturing of And then they say that on the nearsurface granitic bedrock ould be expected somewhere (Continued on Page 3, Col. 4) w l
on Bodega Head."
PG&E seeks to build a 325e 000-kilowatt nuclear plant at the Bodega Head site.
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