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Forwards ACRS 641020 Rept on Bodega Bay.Related News Clippings Encl.W/O Rept
ML20235C793
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 11/02/1964
From: Case E
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To: Garfield F
FOOD & DRUG ADMINISTRATION
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NU 2N Supplemental DRL Reading R&PRSB Reading Docket No. 50-205 Originator: NDMason I

bec: E. G. Case Mr. Frederick M. Garfield Director Division of Field Operations I

sureau of Regulatory Compliance i

Food and Drug Administration 1

Departzment of ilealth, Education, and Welfare Washington, D. C. 20204

Dear Mr. Garfield:

Transmitted herewith for your information is a copy of the following:

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY ACRS Report dated October 20, 1964 on Bodega Bay Atomic Park - Unit No. 1.

Sincerely yours.

' Edson G. Casa, Assistant Director

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Division of Raactor Licensing Euclosure:

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1. Berkeley Gesatte "PGbE Drops Proposal To

, DPI, HQ Build Bedega Plant" - 10/30/M

2. Oakland Tribune "PGkE Drgp_gEgn_fgI_Jafgg o^rs Marold Price, REG, SQ Plant" - 10/30/64 3, *= Franel-a chamiela " e n-mnable huhe '

PekR Beciaien--Ne A-Plant At Sodega Boy"-10/3S/64

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5. Oakland _ Tribune "PSE P an Plans for_jedag
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7. 3,_F Chronicle " " Rid _for_Stata_Fark me Sodega" - 11/1/64 o^'s 8,_L_L_ Chronicle "D0DEGA - Yes_but_h" -

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REMARKS 4' l Rodney L. Southwick A cictant to the stenag<er for Public Inforascio DATE 11/2/64 USE OTHER 54DE FOR ADOtflomAL REMARK 5 U 5 GovtRNuthf PainfthG OFFIC( '951 - O-422007 i

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Decision Told by Utility a SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)

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{ Co. announced today is has deaded to drop plans se build I

an seemic eesstor as Bodegs

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President Robert H. Cardog

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l pany alli withdraw its apphca.

$ tion to tae Atom;c Energy Com

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' a.at reactor.

"He have repeated!y sta:ed that af any reasonable doubt es.

ims about the safety of the pro.

,k pened Bodega p. ant. up *ould e

inot consicer goirs forward sith l tt." Gerdes said.

'j PC&E's dects.on to drop p; ens li or the reaeor came a day aft.

. er Gov. Enmurd G Broum ldcca sae.quen.oned the uery of the Ba

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nowed two confbcamg repris u.

sued by the A tom.c Er.stgy

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Reactor Safeguards found the O

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from tne A:nmer Energy Com.

thawn godted the "capabil.ites

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' o! trie struciae*' to inttantand earthquakes l Ge*nes sad however. PGAE e desmon to witadraw its applica.

hon ed not mean they had lost sonf dente en "nucitar - eMetric
genera! ion "

"Alomic plants are safe and dependsh'e. as experience in

! Caldernia and eJaewhere has

, shown." he said Bodegs flead hes at the edge l l Bocega Bay and mdudes tne e

town of the same name.

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The Pacific Gar and Electric would be darigeront.Onc urged Co. tuday dropped its plans.,tof great caution.. although approv.

build an atomic puwer plant at,ing the plan. The fifth cited the i

Bodega Head.

' danger thesis. It expressed con-Robert H. Gerdes, president of cern over the lack of acy experi-i the company, announced the de-mental or experfen(yd ^ proof-i rision to withdraw the applica-test of the engirecting pitciples tion for the plant to the Atomic involved.

Energy Commission.

No plans to 41mt )"e proposed i

We have repeatedly stated atomie plant te anothr.r s i1 e v

that if any reasantb'e. doubt were announced tif PC&E,

<xists about the sitiey of the AstPLE PROVISION wcl "We have made provisions for l propo:ed IWdega bj a n t.

would not consider goin; for ' adequate electric generating (a '

ward with it,he declared in a p'acity elsewhere to take care of i our customers' n e ed s for statement.

,j "The regulalory staff of the' the sverRl years immW!iately AEC has recently reported that ahead." the PG&E elWement i it tas some doubt 'at the pres-read.

l The. controversy has raged t

ent state of ot.r knowledge' about the capabihty of the ytrue' since 1959 when the company!

ture to withstand a maxiraum first' announced plans to bmkt presumed carthquake, although the huge ' atomic powered, gev agreemg that }he proposed en-erating plant on the head Juttmg gineermg principles, appear rea-out from Bodega Bay in So-sonablef " Gerdes said m an' noma County.

unenemg the withdrawal ot the Conservation groups and j

application Wen led by the Northern Cah-34 MILLION SPENT itornia Association to Preserse PCIE already has o e n t ! Bodega Head and Harbor enme hylmin on u.c ite whde ;ciaimed the plant would create j

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<afety of a reactor ticar a major an eartriquake or tidal w a v e carth%rl c fauh jeould np the plant apart ard i

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Earbet this u vek vparate contaminate much of Northern.'

SEC riptrts m'ered Cahiornia with radioactivity.

groups-in on: mons on the w:.

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fiavrg/f huddmg aa a'onue re ;iwued Wednesday opponents of j

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dom acts plant at ihr edge nl tne the proposal asked that PG&E San Ancicas carthouake fault. " bow out gracefully.' Gov. Ed ;t The deparate AEC reports mund G. Brown yesterday also t I

mere made pubbe nn Wednc> day. declared that the e o m p a n y l y

One donded the PGAE pro should abandon its plans at Bo-l posal.Tuo sa'd the hiega plant idega Bay.

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-anon lot a 55.mk10 watt o a s ie a e plant because of fears that 1angerou.i radia. !

tion o Ad he reieased.i

< ame of a seiere earthquanc T'C8DfENT ro m p a n y ofhc;aia said l e 4r* mere not prepared m:

mai e nd:wr r*/ tow to sab j i a;f pa(1 Of iller? M Thlunup i ms eu mer.i at IMdera a

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attam p ans sacre meteen The 1*G1E covaton u naeraa its appination for the nucaGr InlidUatten calite two asys aster an adserse re. '

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' virtually perfect site for a he peepened site ei the ledega lay nucleae pe=se plant may be used fee a nuclear power plant.

senventeenal pianewe perhaea become a park it uns to be built near the

,itp of the narrow peninsula tr.at forma the outer boun-PG&E Decision

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! Water to cool the great in.

1:allattnn was to be draem Bodega A. Plant Canceled st:.=:::s,n e

contact witn the pianL. t as

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, gy and aesiamic design had "We would he the last in egfic cesan, to be disenarged into the Pa.

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af t *e prapa cit kwes ' %e are convinced these istdg as in put lie safety "

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pq p' ant we u m,tet not enee.ner t ien s are sound." Gerbes s t alla tie n will be used tf gmag forward with ir ' de-5.nnunaen " Buti tne doubt Th e decision on Badega PG&E bullds a steam plant, do*e not mean PG&E will e t a r ed Enhe t H. Get Jes.. asc<t hs the staff. Plihaugh

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Gerdes said setants in geology, seismolo application, conventional steam matalla.

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" Atomic plants are safe -

HPokes:ack on the western I'

and dependable. as expern, shore of Bodega Bay, ence in California and else.

Prepa ahnns for tne nu-where has shown." his state.

i dear p;am u er* m eil under -

ment clntinued was u nen toristruction w as The company's netion was Imhed a Ine mote than a ;

greeted witn p'rnmpt enngra !

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tulations from Puhhe l'till. '

}iall hea Onm misstonee Olham,

A hme 140 feet wtde and 73

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feet neer wAA N M the o's ed 4 to 1 when he tried to i

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f { u ;, e' hall the project.

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fare for Mr. Geertes to make '

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inis necision, and he is en '

r an* "" a i a - a mnvement tit;ed to the greatest tredn

, a5 an ear %ne eni.id for his action today," Benett I wom e

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( SFM h//f6'f Bid for State Park at Bodega l The Sierra Club sug. 'sy over a nuclear installa whether it will build a con the Atomic Energy Commis, gested y e s t e rd a y that tion." ventional power plant there. sion's Division of Nuclear Li-ce 2ng Pacific Gas and Electric Sirl said the State Park The company's decision to e is @ M fM Cornpany "get together" Master Plan eight years ago abandon plans for a nuclear we st of the San Andreas with the State on plans to anticipated a State park at plant at Bodega Head fol-fault, which slips occasional-convert PG&E's nuclear Bodega IIead and that the lowed an adverse decision by ly and causes earthquakes, I , power plant site at Bodega National Park system had Head into a State park, i recommended one there. I Sierra Club President Wil. The Sierra Club, Siri said, liam E, Siri advanced the f g suggestion after congratulate-i mg the power company on its in " proper locations." decision Friday not to build a " Bodega Head," he said. n u eie a r plant at bodega "now appears to have been Head. an unsafe location for an "The Sierra Club has long atomic plant and it remains opposed erect,on of a power an unsuitable place for any i plant at Bodega Head." Siri Power plant on the original und. "and we are pleased by the Pacific Gas and Electric grounas of historic and bio. Company's decision. logical preservation." i il0LE GOOD WILL The company regained PG&E,which has already m:xn of the public goodwill dug a hole 73 feet deep and thm v,as jeopardized during 140 wide at the Bodega Head the lon;; and bitter controver, sit e, has not yet stated 1 l

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s BODEGA n////y Yes But No Pacific Gas and Electric Cols hopes for building a nu. clear power plant at Dodega llead, already in limbo for over a year, were dealt a severe setback last week as the Federal Government is-sued two conflicting reports. The Atomic Energy Com-mission's Advisory Commit-tee on reactor Safeguards, a 13-member a g e n c y headed by 11erbert Kouts of Brook-haven National Laboratory twinner of last year's Ernest A w a r d for a Lawrence physies t, concluded that a teactor could be operated at T:odega without " undue haz c rd." But offsetting this was a pessiniistic opinion from the Commission's Division of Nu. clear Licensing, which ad-vised flatly: " Bodega Head is not a suitable location for the proposed nuclear power plant at the present state of our knowledge." In its report, the licensing group said it felt the pro-posed power plant 1000 feet west of the San Andreas fault zone met with safety stand-ards in all respects except one." And on Thursday Governor Edmund Brown urged PG&E to seek a site that would be less "carthquake prone" than Bodega Ifead. + San Francisco Sunday Chronicle Mhw mi She. en,- - - - - - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _}}