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Comments on USGS Discovery of Active Earthquake Fault within Excavation Proceeding at Proposed Power Reactor on Bodega Head.Concerns Re Util Intentions to Continue Excavation Noted
ML20235C852
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 10/08/1963
From: Pesonen D
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE BODEGA
To: Seaborg G
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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in the Geological Survey ofThe San Francisco .sQ press an activeas reported a discovar,j(. 3.9 x.aneih n.xioch y, g,;c a.ynw.

Company's company 's proposed powerexcavation e Pacific Gasearthquakeproceding fault for th with-E Dod t. Pesonea Vice President--Enginee intends to ireply to this finding The was distreactor EncutM Sa<,. ,tary to disregardcontinue excavations ng, announced that the cressing; C.C. Wa the findings and implied that ompany Of perhaps of the U.S. Geological Survthey ey.

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your letter to Mr. Carverof your office response to this infor to the determine the effect that PG&E's of the Department erior, ofotedthe Intmati

' extent of faultingexcavation withinwouldth e be deepened , to The from yourreason for our reactor site.

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ample, despite provisionsgoverning reactor site critt facility should be locate d eria have no meaning.of For 10 CFR 100 ex- "

the surface location of of 10 CFR 100.20(c)(1), that no PG&E has continued a known closer activethan one-fourth rom mile f to excavate active earthquakwhich isthe known to be less site eartnquake on Bodega Head, fault," th the San Andreas. e fault -onean one-fourth mile from a k

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'd...It is quite impossible to design a power plant to survive without damage the large permanent ground surface displacement L

'that might occur if the earthquaka f ault slippage occurred at

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Under what specific conditions would the AEC deny a construction permit for a nuclear reactor because of earthquake hazards?

It is misleading to suggest that the purpose of the present ex-cavation at Bodega Head is to assess the extent of faulting. Tne  ;'

cospany is obviously constructing a reactor and is looking at the nature of the bedrock to the same extent that a hignway department would inspect a bed of fossils in the path of higaway construction.

The company has poured concrete, reinf orced with steel, in a ring that is clearly designed to provide for laying up the frame of the vapor

  • pressure suppression system--a permanent partoof the reactor complex.

This is construction, not geological exploration, and would appear _

to violate the provision of 10 CFR 50.l(b) which -states:

"No person shall begin the construction of a production or utilization facility on a site on which the facility is to be operated until a conutruetion permit has been issued.

Au used in thic paragraph, the term ' construction' shall be deemed to include pouring the foundation for, or the installation of, any portion of tae permanent facility on the site:..."

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The present activity is clearly a violation of this provision. j Since your agency appears to find thac tae-licensing and regulation 1 of reactors is exclusively reserved to the federal' government, are you prepared to enforce tne provisions of tais regulation, promulgated by your agency?

It is becoming abundantly clear that this . project has accumulated more momentum than a responsible utility management should nave allowed. According to testimony by the company in a recent lawsuit in Sonoma County, "After February 9, 1960, the company incurred engineering, material, construction and miscellaneous expenses in the amount of 51,386,648, all of which have been directly related to the proposed construction of the said facility, " in adcition to a contract of approximately 3500,000 on the present hole. All of this has prs-coded even the scheduling of learings by your agency on the safety of tne installation.

This suggests ,that the project has gotten quite out of nand and taat perhaps the utility management no longer exercises adequate con-trol over it. The purpose of this l etter is to sug;est that the pre-rogatives of your agency be expanded to rescue the company from what has beqome an increasingly embarrassing mistake.

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