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Comments on Proposed Plant at Bodega Bay.Plant Opposed Due to Earthquake Threat
ML20235C570
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 10/18/1963
From: Hayes M
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To: Seaborg G
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Dear Dr. Beaborg,

l Eny of us here in the Bay region cannet understand.how,in the light of the disoevery of a further fault (see enolesed l,

article),. the Atemio Energy Commission can consider for a moment granting a use permit to the Factric unsaand Elvetric Co. to put up a nuclear remoter at Bodega Bay 1 Although P.O.&E. c' instruction engineers keep reiterating that the buildings would withstand even a major earthquake, the unb '

admit that there are inpenderables in such situations. The D of nature often exhibit bewildering vagaries. *

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' w'estern coasts of both North and South America this yeaW 8 m -d recent, which set off a tidal nye, reeerded movement f! rom '

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. actively moving. It would be feelhardy te guarantee tha{fethere" will be nothing of unusual intensity in our vicinity. 2,+%

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b - seismig hazards investigator, He,s not convinced a quake caused the break The hillside where the 325,.

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h. built has been cut away into "i 'excavation-was visible on the side of the formed as little as 42,000' the San Andreas fault," Mar.

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danger.. llave said. "These matters of beddings of ice plant cover-The rockitselfis 93 million Tocher sak} the direction 8lippage are easily corrected." ing the terrain. ,

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him believe they were caused The. road to the observa , .

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' that it had had some breaks Andreas fault, a quarter mile after PG&E had spent an es- calls " Bodega Bay ' Atomic!

b .in its lifetime. Much of Cal- to the east. IIe said he win Park" was covered with;

. p., ,1fornia's rock has undergone timated $2.5 million at the, gravel late last month,' and r .atmnar damage. know for sure whether he % _. .y ., ,

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