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205111263 Lyman C. Anderson, 'Inf ormation Officer
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-- William h. Bennett, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, announced today that the PUC will petition to intervene at an Atomic Energy Commission hearing on a ' proposal to cons truct a nuclear power plant at '
. San Onofre in Camp Pendleton.
.,... a The hearing.has been set by the AEC for 10 a.m. on Nov.19 in the Santa Ana City Hall.
"It is certain that nuclear power development will have an immens e impact on our society," Bennett. s aid.
"Our. purpose-in intervening ic to make sure that the vital interests of the people of California are fully protected."
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Southern California Elison and San DieBo Gas and Electric Companies have jointly applied to construct the $82 million plant--designed to Benerate enough power to supply the"olectrical needs of a city of half a million population.
Construction of the atomic powered plant on a beach site south of San Clemente requires approval by the Public Utilities Commission as well as the Atomic Energy Commission.
The joint application is now pending before the PUC.
Five days of public hea51ngs were held by Commissioner Bennett in San Clemente,and Los Angeles and the request was taken under submission / ast Aug. 29.
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Santa Roca, California Re: Increased Assessed Value, Bodes Bay Arca Gentic e n:
l The fellowing study has been inade to determine the i= pact on taros that the construction of the P.G.6E. Plant at Bodega Bay would have if it were now cons tructed.
' caly the prope:cd P.G.TE. Rlant but also the related facilities th constructed by privcte capital as a result of the P.G.62. develop =ent.
this study we hue cc:sidered separately the various taxing jurisdictions that w uld In making be effected.
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Assessed Value Tax Pe.tes Taxine. Jurisdiction After After Now Construction Kov Construction Bcdega Bay Ele =entary School 2,491,930
'32,491,930 1.26 0.10 Tomales liigh School 4,902,400 34,902,400 1.36 0.19 Scuta Rosa Junict College (Tuition) 7,401,030 37,401,030 0.39 0.08 Co.ta t. of Senc :a - Basic Rate (Ge. nd and Plood) 299,507,055 329,507 lote.1 Tax Dodege Day Area (Outside Utility District),055 M
2.56 5.82 2.93 7.edera Bay Public Utility 651,065 30,651,065 2,65
_0.05 Totcl Tra Bodega Bay b'cet (Insido Utility Dis ri:t)
S.47 2.99' If the ta ns in the Bodegt Bay Area on a piece of property (cutside the utility vould be t.pprnHmtely $100.00 per year. district) are rarr $200.00 per yea If the taxes in the Bodega Bsy Area on a piece of property (inside the utility district) are now $200.00 per year, af ter construction of the P,0.63. Plant th::7 vo'.:ld be apprndmtely $70.00 per year.
Countyvide there vould be a saving of $0.25 per hundred dollars ascesced value in the taxps.yerfs bill.
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who has need to snap on ha he:d by the PUC in San Cle-SANTA ANA - A pre-hear.'dures for conducting the formall electric light.
mente and Los Angeles.
ing co,derence on N M8 m1. hearing at 10 a.m. Nov 10 in:
lion nuclear power pl:nt pro Santa Ana City Council At stake is the scientific This week the Atom!c En :
question of whether the in-crgy Commission announced credibic power of the atom a pre-hcaring at 10 a.m. to-posed for San Onofre, crupted The conference, held before
(:.n safely be put to work day ni the county court-l into a series of charges and~a panel of three officers of the!
making c cetric power, house, and a ful: fledgedi courter-charges here this mornJAEC. involved protest statcy Dehind this arc the politi. pubhc hearm on issuance:
'ments from the National CoaU b-d Md ssneistion and n representaJ cal cnd philosophical ques-of ? construction perrnit at A
P Caiifornia Edison Co., San D;c '.t ye of an unofficial co tior:s of whether private 10 a.m. m Santa Ana coun-mpnal and incentive will be cil chambers on Tucsday, turned loose on the job or NoV 10.
go Ga s and E!cetric Co..J s has.
i se3 Corp. net u ti AEC officers refused a Wes-whether it will remain to be.
The AEC's Ditision of Li-enme anMher business for censing and Regulation has members of the Atomic Encigy;tinAouse request to order the Commission to discuss proce.:Nctional Coal Associst on to the government to enter.
this week made pubhc a.,
3 p q page report based on every
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IT EECAME T11E DCSI. aspect of safety in the new
!,ther reasons for opposition be-ne.o of everyonc in the operation, including extra ifo e the Nov.10 hearing.
protection a g a i n s t carth-Westinghouse also made a re-s o u t h I a n d hst February q u a k e s, and radio-act vc quest to disqualify the associa.
when Southern California Edi'.on Co., San Dic<.co Gas waste handbng-tien as having an " invalid ar-and Electric Co.,
Ucchtel gument" because the assocta-Corp. and Westinghouse IT IS Pit 0PER FO't TIIE tion's opposition was not direct-3cd to the San Onofre operatica, Electric Corp. asked for per government to determine if'
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mission to build a nuclear the companics have the fii also refuse power pknt nn a 90. acre nancial and techm.eal capa-I,this request.
parect inside Camp Pendle-A E. Gacde of San Clemente, bility to build the atomic l ho tnn.
jw said he represented a The proposal would gen, plant and operate it' safely Q:would enter a prote
,craic 3'75,000 net c!cetrical from the standpoint of ra.
allowatts, by nut! car power dio active hazards-and the petition on,the site whose northern new AEC report concludes lat iheir convenience.
hm:!t are just across the the companics have demon-l if approved, the nuc! car pow.
countyline, two miles south strated they can do this, ler plant will be located on th c::st of San Clemente.
33.6 acre site at the northwest But it is improper for any About 20 per cent of the federal or state agency to',
er.d of Camp Pendicton, south power generated would be : deny private' enterprise the! -
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sold in San Diego by San right to develop or prodtice Diego Gas and Eicetric, with any legal product from elec-the remaining 80 per cent tric powcr to popcorn, availnble to Southern Cah-I hope the PUC quick!y form,a Edison Co. In the lo issues its approval, and that the space age power plant s li A a Yri t APP ca-o tions, legal forms, engineer gets moving soon.-
p I knoyr,this is a dirty I ing proposals, and evidence of safe operations was pr* word in some quarters, but
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I hope that they make a vided both to the Public profit, too.
Ut!!itics Commission of the It is the best incentive I.
strte, and to the U.S. Atom-know of to keep them mov-i ic Energy Commission.
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A DWP :pokesman said hia grnup would " basically cover the same ground'as we covered before."
- He said,._'Wei Non't oppo5e.
Nirst IIcaring nucle'a'r reactors per se but The riist hearing for the we dh think they should be
.i plant was held last summer placed in a much less dense-but a second hearing?.was ly populated area.
subsequently. granted when lie said the, oppoAttion the opposition said it had not would'. 'be represented by had an opportunity to pre-Mbert J. Day, an auorney of sent its case properly.
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'Our studies show there la, carry the Mallhu residents to, considerable danger 'of ac-the hearing and their spokesman, Carl May, pre, s:Ident and that the area is on..f proposed geological dicted *'00 to.Ws persons fauk
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'WE OBJECT'-Singer Frankie'Loine and octress Among them were singer Frankie Laine, actress An.
Angelo Lonsbury who joined opponents to proposed gela Lansbury and attorneys,1.596 million' nuclear. power plant,in the Malpu creo..
for Bob Hope w)1o has size-The department seeks a Nelson satil' nuclear power
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zoning variance'of 45 acres is needed as a safe, economi-jacent to the plant site.
now zoned for light manu" cal energy source anr1 will i
- Samuel B. Nelson, Depart-facturing light agriculture not contribute to air.pollu.
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- 24818. Pacific Coast High-engineer, explained that the The remainm, g 260. acres power facilitywould be built bave been offered to Los
. way, said the thought of an at Corral Cany'on on a site Angeles County for a liuffet
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fmnting' on Pacific Coast park and recreational area.
my hair stand on end? '
Highway three miles north-Under Sulimission
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west, of Malibu Pier.
The planning coinmissiod The first unit would have a capacity of 400,000 k#o.
took..the.. matter un.d.er,sub,.
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.at long as'there is a margin gerous marine animals." 1 for grror 'I d'on't think the gerous - marine j animals','
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, of 73 Malibu Colony breeding.
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'and added the plant would. Besides the Malibu Colony (bring jn heavy.indystry and Assn., Malibu Board of Real-UNE
- depreciate residential values. tors and Malibu Cove Colony He said a leaking tmck Property O w n e r s' Assn.,
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{flar plant in Idaho contami-Big Rock. Mesa, Sycamore nated the streets which had Park, Escondido Beach. Las to be torn up and the ma. Flores Mesa and Sea Vista
,terial buried. " People say it drive areas.
l can't happen here but it To allay the fears, the
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- the actor and his wife are Power introduced M a y o r Fred Thevenin of Eureka.
Nehemently opposed to the Mayor William J. Burke of
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Buchanan, N.Y., and P. B.
i v.. Terry Waters, chairman Hunt, president of a bank in,'
gf the Malibu Citizens for Shelburne. Falls, Mass.
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? Architects, charged that the These three. empha; sized' iplant'.wotild change the that nuclear power. plants in!
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fentire character of lialibu, their areas had increased frightening away/ potential property valuca, created ex--
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trade, sumuisted'populauon, growth and proved to be a.
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, ' Frank A. Morgaa, past Hunt said that trout fish-l community' asset.
president of the American ing is better than ever in a;-
- Assn. of Petroleum Geolo. popular : 8tream near the igists, said the plint site at Yankee Atomic Electric Co;
- the ' mouth of Corral Canyon plant in northwestern Mass
.'js in a massive landslide'arca sachusetts.
.which will cause worrics Others said that schools,
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hospitals and, convalescent Dr. Arthur H. Muir, nu. homes. haie ' beeni b u i11
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- tists warning that radio-ac-Dr. ' Warren F. Witzig, Stive gases will be released technical director of the f during normal
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[ that. large-scale reactors Inc., Washington, D.C., said ishould not be built in the Los it is : impossible for the
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Dr..Rimmon C. Fay, mar-precaution,'such as a;6 ft.
d Ilhe hiologist, said -Santa thick.' wall of concrete and j
blogipa,,,B,agprob,a,b,itwo,u,ld steel will prevent radiationi s
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re.ncrdina the Company?c plans for a power plant et l'edcts Ecsd. ;
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Cur'c':nt :eter in currently paving the rond clon,'the t et cide of the hay.
.brther ucr'.c ct the cite, other th::n selcat!!! otudies ned :n=:1 r.ninten=0c :='c, will not 60 per1*c=2d eatil cf:cr the pas 11c Pt=1:2, on car ppit;;tlen beforo the t.tomic Catr,T/ 00 niccion h:: S :: held and :
cv. tracts;n per:1c iscued..L*c don't k=u when ths pub'Je hc= int vill b;
. h0.0 hat v ccouma thst it trill ba chartly ofter the re,7=:.n of tha v. ioac. -
4 rc.:o'onic cnd cciccolet.tc consultente havo boca received smi reviccL Dur concultante bevo ec npleted their en-ctro revice of the ez::nv;>tlen n?.C cro cicina en th:tr rep rte.. If theco reporte end thoco of the AC contultente cc cu'.r.:itted coon, no cro hopeful that the hering can bs held early r. cut Ih::ver, until the hc=ing is hold ccd a construction p:=.it iccu.d.
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'l Or c tensivo investigatitcas and preparcrorf vork hcyo uncovered nothing thich, in our opinica, could r.111tato etinct cur recclpt of a cocetructica scroi t.'
liscover, the issucneo or dcn'c1 of a construction percit ic, n
. e.ctter to be decided by the M::, if the MC chould deny our requent for n -
conatructS on pcmit it v111 he neccscarf, eo undertche atodies to detemins citernMo ;>over sources, including instalistNa of ccaventionally fuc1 0 9
picnte, the U2 cations or ' dates o.! completfoc hef:vhich c:=nst be deters'.ned ct thic time.-
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' Nue:va r-powect-there is no possibility of a
- encrnting pqm lnmb-like explosion of the safety of a proposed nuclear power phnt at Malibu was introduced today as the Ecgional Planning Com.
. hat pn.pued m: '.
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- W said the APCD has i mission held a final hearing on a zone exception) ai a!r o in;; to Smith G: <co; :. i ' r.if tre.ined in the radiologli request.
- cal Geld tnd that the agenef About 500 persons were onl pol;ution conirs n:
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In :m addreu p;,m.crd i.- -; conducts daily monitoring '
hand to hear the testimony deliver; to.!ay in 'qf'a.:
- . por airborne rr.d!oactivity.
'in the highly controversial nr case. The plant is planned Rc;;iol.1, ?hma a, i s;on, Crawob n*
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cost of $06 million.
- non desirable The witnesses called by The Departmen. o; '.
the city department stressed
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solely the safety factor.
exception to cl ow cc:w. rue.l from such diver;cnt points -
s tion of the nucicar tiowerl.
of view as posWe cath-plant on the coast at Corral quakes, structural failures,
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and the limited releasc of Criswold o!so said
', proposed plant would notj radiation into the atmos.
we any ~ radioactive conta.!
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in;nedon threat and that Among the witnesses, E. L I
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actors are already operating A. Power Plants Cut Smog Nn'aiite aut-aue shut.
off featurcs, to be included County Air Pollution C & pollution a"nd are the most
. in the department's project trol chic! Smith Orisw.:d desirabic.
. c.(ceed any others thus far ctated today nuclearanwcred The ! os Angeles Depart" built.
generating plants :!ke the ment of Water and Power is The Department of Water
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one proposed for the stalmu applyin:: for a zone variance and Power owns a 305acrc arca v 111 aid in th-b3 nlc to a!!ow construction of the site fronting on Pacific Coast a.. !nn smog.
nuclear power plant on the Highway, but proposes to give cin a speech prep. mi ar coast at Corral Canyon.
to the county thc acreage not (i.very to the Co...y c-Griswold said the proposed needed for the reactor for
.ana: P:an' Sng Ccm.tw.n. generating plant wou1(1 no.
use as recreadonal fac!!1 tics.
. chwo:d sli t h a t :rt o!, pose any racicactive contami-
.s produces less sn m' nation thicot, and that there ed o!!, but tha*
rjis no po:.sibutty of a bomb-unre evnWdon of the reactor.
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1@ ed JCT)Y M.6neGrmg cy L6CISC Lt.'tSO.\\
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Fm the Los Angeles Departdwho said that a nuclear.gener.
.mnt rif Water and
.hich i.* requesting a zone ex.,fdesirablePower ;ated power plant is "especially Scientists were pitttd n:c.in :
seier..it.ts today et the r.uMi' in the Los Angeles cption. for 43 acres of a 305] tribute to the local smog prob basm because it will not con.
rehearine for the Lu k '
. re site in Corral Canynn.
Cou.u) EU:iona! Plannins Orvilt Chri.tiansen of 'the!!cm."
rnis&n on n $M rni:hori n pwer phrt in Ma!ibu.
anning staff, said the commis-t Nuclear power will be " safe, u imd received El telegram 4cconomical and more abundant Some C per>ow, the t-ad !etters and 650 postcards.jthan gas." Nelson said,
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ty of n.e t Malibu ter.h..
wn of them opposing the; details of the project weSafety features and technical were pre.cnt in the coun(.
t roject.
pervisors' hcarin room. ti-re de.
Tirst to testify for the DWPl scribed by E. L. Kanouse ensi.
.Ha!! of Acimir.i.,tration.
was n!so a large represer etiv nanager and chief engineer,land Eugen Ko!fmann,%,rr<.
trenior nur! car ensincer. for the DWP.
"There i:: no possibility that this type r,T renetor can explode like en atomic bomb because the chain reaction which pro.
duces heat to create steam is a controned reaction," Kanouse said.
Construction Told He said the reactor will be contained in a struefure con.
sisting o! two steel shields sur.
rounded by reinforced concrete six feet thick; Koffmann said the amount of radiation for people living ad.
jacent to the site would be only 1 per cent of the amount con.
sidered permissib!c by the Attorney Robert Nib!cy was Atomic Energy Commission.
to introduce their witnesses.
Ger.e Blanc, state coordina. They will include consulting tor for the Atomic Energy geologist Frank A. Morg:n. Dr.
Commission, testified that the Arthur H. Muir, nuclear physi.
state is " vitally interested in cist: Dr. Donald L. Drukey, the safety control of nuclear physicist: Dr. Rimmon C. Fay, plants," and that numerous marine biologist, and Terry state agencies were involved Waters, architect and chairman in the regulations.
of MCC.
He said the state had met County Action Unr. ceded with the DWP, and that the At the first hearing and on
" applicants had cooperated occasions since, some commis.
very niecly with the state."
sioners have pointed out that Mayors Await Call the DWP is not required to In addition to the.:lentists, come to the county for the zone the DWP planned to call may.
exception.
ors of two cities which now.
Under a section of the govern.
have nuclear power plants.
ment code of the State of Cali.
They were Fred Thevenin,. fornia,.a city is not subject to mayor of Eureka, Calif., and county zoning or vice versa.
William
.T. Burke, mayor of When asked specifically by the Duchanan N.Y. The president commissioners about the DWP of a b a n k. P. B. Hump, in matter, the county counsel
,Shelburne Falls. Mass., was ruled that the city was not re.
'also to testify.
quered to come to the county Opposition testimony, to fot.. #or the exception.
Iow the DWP presentation, was
. DW sp&stna F.an cm to be presented by scientists. p amed they are going through experts on the advisory com. ' the normal enannels m, order mittee of the Malibu ' Citizens I* CCSP Y *** d COUUIY P#{
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In Sacramento this week the' state highway engineer announced his pre-ferred alignment: for-a freeway.
through the Malibu area. It is one which would closely parallel the present SANTA P.m A OUT100K '
coast highway in the vicinity of Corral '
. Canyon and beach. His recommendat pat *cm tion, while it may not be accepted in
. mvr s R 1, 1963 all part!culars by the. State I!!ghway Date
. Co nmission, provides another reason r
Reheering Set why the proposal of the Los Angc!cs Department of Water and Power to bulId a nuclear reactor complex at the mouth
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of Corral Canyon close to the present highway should be carefully reviewed
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P.. l x U.i 61 4 out at least part of the site of the pro.
posed complex. Even if it did not inter-t, ny I ocist I.ARs0N perma enmpain.
Tere with the plans for the compicx as n.>.
transpnrtatinn will be
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..rovided. with buses leaving the presently drawn, it would put the two f.Minir Mmet parkmg lot at facilities close together and greatly in-
,rchearing on pe pr<.p.>
wr!.ar pnau pbt in
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crease the difficulty of concealing this
.!s exwed Nn:ulay at
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,'Irfore ; !.c.Rc;;ional Ir. "
Ti>1ek will be manned in the-industrial complex with any kind of-
,C<,n.mir "n.
... thir. weekend by MCC me n.
' landscaping.
! De twion will he ! e il - hers who wili necept bus reser.g We have,scen the architects' draw-
-l:he lyarinn romn nf the onm. vations.
ing of this proposed reactor complcX,
$Dnard ; n! Superv,. ors. [at!
Terry Wat e'r.
chairman of,
'and we don't blame residents of Malibu e
Adm.mstra: ton, f,00 %. am, MCC. ssid that persons as far for asking that it be hidden or located I,. 1.0i. Anr,eles, becc+ c "i.cnway as Saa:a Monica. Beverly St
!;;;15' and the west San Fernan.'
tlsewhere. It seems doubtful that it lthe tarre attendance expeti.:d.The Los An;:eles. Depemy do Valley should be concerned tould be hidden by anythin;;! css than a lof Water and Power is r.gce r4nce a nuelcar necident at thel Redwood forest or a poa. soup fog. And
' fina n zone exce; don fw 4 proposed plant could endange-
'no one could claim that its tall stacks.
l and dome will resemble the " stately
> acre h in corral i k.
t hem.
where $ eit hopa in build t'-
' pleasure dome" decreed by Kubla Khan
'in the Coleridge poem.
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v Last July 10. at the fir-i.ca ing,there was liule oppi.itios Yet this is not the only reason far to the tr timnny offered by n ifoubting that the reactor site is wc!!
battery of DWP expert-and chosen. A leading geologist, Frank sciemis:s.
Morgan, declares that the site is on a
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. fault bne susceptible to serious eart,-
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b.. Citirens for conservati m. ar.
quakes and/or carth movements. If this
- .ani7ed immerbaiety afi r the is true. It is not farfetched to conceive hearin;..urong communny re position developed which led to of earthquake damage to the nuc! car i
J the ;: ranting of a rehearing be-reactor' complex which would involve'.
$r t iIs ca e serious hazards.
fore the er,mmmmn.
The fact that the state highway cn-i 1!
gineer.is apparently litt!c afraid of of Albert J. Day, t.on Ange!c4
' attorney, accordini: to Ciri V.
earthquakes in this ' area is not wholly May, spokesrtan inr the MCC.
.rcassuring. A. freeway can withstand.
May also. said that " hun-an earthquake with only minor damage, i
drer of cards and leuer* have but what about an atomic p!!c, if its ibeen sent by Midibu,re.ide""
protective shield suffered cracks or dis-4 to the commission urgmg denol location?
cf the tone excep: ion.
We feel the quest!cns ra! sed are valid The MCC will work intensive.
and worthy of serious c:camination. Tne ly n!! weekend to see that there Los Angeles Department of Water and i
!s a lar;;e turnw' 'nr the bear.
1, May asscro d. There will Power should answer thcsc questions to
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enin : chend with this nrniec j
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