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| Issue date: | 01/12/1974 |
| From: | Apfelberg E, Silver S SAN LUIS OBISPO MOTHERS FOR PEACE |
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January 12, 6/4 Secretary O. U. Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D. C. P0545 Attention: Chief, Publi: Proceedings Staff Re: Dockets 50-275-50-32';;
Gentlemen:
On Dec. 18, 1973, we received a response from the AEC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in regard to our petition to intervene in the licensing hearing for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2.
As instructed, we herewith set forth, with particularity, our contentions and accompany thrm with supporting affidavite.
Pursuant to the Board's memorandu:n and order dated Dec.14, it(73 in which ourcontentionNumber2D(Evacuationheutes)wasacceptedasarelevant contention, we are restating our contention without introducing further elaboration:
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Are there adequate evacuation routes for the citizens of Gan Inis Obispo County in the event of a major accident? No specific routes nor procedures have been adopted."
CONTENTIONS 1.
A safe ievel of radiation has never been established. With Units 1 and 2, appl. cant vill be subjecting us, our children and our grandchildren to unceiscionable risks to our health. The fact that there will be an increas in radioactivity has been documented by PG & E (see 1.A. balow).
Local f sh may have an increased level of Cs (see 1.I. below) and other radioac.ive materials, which would directly endsnger the health of those eating esfood harvested locally.
A.
" he operation of the plant will result in some small increase in radioactivity and will create a very low risk of accidental radia-tion exposure to nearby residents." Final Environmental Statement P.G. & E., May, 1973 P. 8-2.
B.
W3 note that in Section 12.1.2 of FSAR no data'of annual man-rem t > certain plant personnel was provided.
C.
" here is no evidence at all for any safe threshold of radiation
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, ggposure" _ Dr. John Gofman, Congress 1crsl Record, vol. 119, no.
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...the r.utagenic action of high-energy radiation is directly proportir.nal to the doso, even at very low dose rates." Further,
"...the nature of high-energy radiation and the nature of the gene are such that genetic mutation could occur even at the smallest dose rates, in amounts approximately proportional to the dose, that is, there is no threshold." Linus Pauling: " Genetic &
Somatic Jffecte, of High-Energy Radiation" Sept.1970, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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"Any dose of radiation, however anall, that reaches the reproduc-tive cells entails some genetic risk." Further, "The risk-benefit equation is particularly hard to balance in the came of genetic risks, for those who receive the benefits, and those who run the risk are not the same people - those at risk may be many genera-tions in the future." National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council Advisory Committee on the Biological Effects of-Ionizing Radiations (BEIR) Sept. ' 972.
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Los Ange:es Times, October 29, 1973 Lee aye, ith respect to a revision of EPA standards on radioactivity, quoted Dr. William Rowe, head of the EPA radiation protection pregram: "We want to put the (n71ronnental question of planned release in proper perspective. The report now under review acccrding to Lee Dye
" estimates that the increase in ralicactivity from nuclear power plants cruld contribute to several hundred deaths per year by the 1
turn of the century."
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Excerpted fran Oct.1973 Congressional Record, Dr. John GAan suggests that " exposure may increase mortality from heart railure.*
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"Any exposure to radiation May be cumulative; tne danage.ts ir-reversibl.e. There are five dangers: cancer, leukemia, genetic defects, fetal and neonatal deaths. They may t4ce generations to show up. Radioactivity tends to accumulate in specific tissues an<l organs. Iodine-131 seeks the thyroid; strentium-90 builds up in bones and teeth. Cesium-137, muscle. Krypton-85 is already concentrating in our fatty tissues, and this accumulation could exhaust two-thirds of AEC's radiation budget for man in tne coming century." "The Clear and Present Danger." A P2blic Report on Nuclear Power Plants. Quoted from EPA.
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Radioactive materials released into the ' air and water in the vicinity of Units 1 and 2 are concentrated by tte biological food chain and can lead eventually to people receivi tg more than the maahum perissible level of radiation. "The na cimum permissible concentration (MPC) concept,however,doesno: :ensider reconcentra-t:on of radionuclides by biological' systems..." Philip Castafson,
"! uelear Power & Thermal Pollution: Zion, Illinois "as. reprinted it The Environmental Revolution p.115
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" Studies of radioactivity in f:.sh caught in lake Michigan during l
1%3-69 showed an approximate
,000- to 3,0rC-fold increase in Cs j
over the levels in water." Philip Gustafson, "Naclear Power &
I Thermal Pollution:
Zior., Illinois, p.115 as reprinted in The Environmental Revolution, Public Affai s Edition, Marth,1973 K.
Excerpts from the Carlson Report reprinted in Nuclear Power And Its Critics (1(Ill) by Dorothy Nelkin, p. 45, says " localized con-centration of radionuelldes by currents, eddies, or wave action, is a likely possibility. After a few years of plant operation, l
and accur.ulation of radionuclides, these processes could result in local concentrations." Continuing, Dorothy Nelkin stated, "More-over, the report argued, plants and animals =ay concentrate radio-nuclides which, through a food chain, could unpredictably affect other aquatic organisms."
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LaMont Cole, a Cornell ecologist, quoted on p.97 of aforementioned I
book by borothy Nelkin says, "there are great areas of unknowns...
We don t know just what saths radionuclides will take in food chains!... The evidence la that there is no threshold for radiation I
effects so you have to choose arbitrary standards....that because there is no way to neasu e dama.ge. the optical amount of radiation discharge should be zero."
2.
It is c. early cbvious that an accident involving the reactor itself, would be detrimental to the health and safety of the people of San Luis Obispo (ounty. Not only might we be ernosed to increased low levels of radiaticn in tle air and water under "ncrmal operation", but we might be exposed to let).al amounts in the case of a major accident. Focdstuffs and the soil macht become contaminated; many people of San Luit Obispo might become nt. clear refugees. Needless to say, much of the real estate would become wcrthless.
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...excent for limited a-ount of fuel failures and some rteam l
ge terator leakage, the events in classes 3-5 are not ant 2cipated during p. ant operation, but events of this type could occur some-time durtng the 40 year plant life tine." Pinal Environmental Statemen c, P.G. &. E., May 1973, p. 7-4.
B.
"Since 1945 there have been ser.e 270 accidents involving nuclear reactors." And, "In 1966, there were 42 accidents at nuclear power plants around the world, 37 in the U.S.
Sir U.S. riants had more than one accident." Public Interest Report: huelear Power Piants, published by Environmental Alert Group Copyrite ICf/3, Los Angeles.
C.
"/ weld failure on a container in a gic,o. ort hood permitted relear e of tritium gas through a stack to the atmosphere." WASH-1192 p. 93 (tecident occured May 20,1966). A nuder or veldirg defects have been noted at Unit 1.
See P.G. & E. stop work order of Sept. 20, 1973
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"At present none of the six reactors in New Ir. gland is operating at full rated power. Three of them are restricted by a vibration problem." Newsweek, Dec. 10, 1973, p. 137.
E.
"The AEC today ordered 10 nuclear power planta in various areas to 13mit their operations and cut back power levels pending further siudies...."
And "The temporary power level cutbacks at the 10 br iling water reactors will range from 5 to 25 per cent." San Luis 01ispo County Telegram-Tribune, August 24,19T3 F.
"en October 10, 1957, the Number One Pile at the Windscale Works ir England nalfuu:tioned, spewing radioactivity and contaminating ma lk and vegetabit s over a 400 square mile area. AIL the reactor's safety features failed." The Clear and Prese.t Danger. A Public heport on Nuclear Power Plants,1973 G.
The updated version of WASH - 740 (AEC in hcuse memo, Kenneke, Jan.
28,1%5) innicates that a single accident right cause property l
damage up to $17 billion, ceaths up to 45,000, and injuries estima-ted up to 74,000.
3 The emergency core cooling system has never been successfully tested and is considered unreliable and thus would not protect the people of San Luis Obispo County from a catastrophic accident.
A.
With respect to the effectiveness acheived by the ECS in the case o ' a LOCA, and also for lessor accidents, FSA contains no quanti-t stive data on energy release:: by fuel rod tubes due to the zir-c >nium-water reaction occurring at elevated temperatures. Since tTis renetion is potentially a run-away or positive feedback situation, it is felt that the ECCS has not bean reasonably demonstrated by applicant to control a LOCA (See Section 6-1 of FSAR).
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In Decer.ber 1973, as reported in the Los Angeles T'.mes, Dec. 29, 1973, t).e AEC issued new rules regarding the ICCS. The requirement l
for a 100 degrees F. reduction in the = w. temperature permitted in the fuel rods has been made. Since this is not treated in FSAR, and since M & E tests are incomplete, the iz;act of this require-l rent is an unknown variable.
C.
3n the :.eporters transcript (F.ay 2,1973) of the People's Lobby vs.
Lo. Cal f. Edison Co. and San Diego Cas and Electric Co. hearing before the Public Utilities Conmission of the State of Califcrnia, pp. 31-33, Dr. Henry W. Kendall describes the loss of coolant accident and some of its effects.
In the same transcript, or
- n. 41 Dr. Kendall goes on to say, "The AM's Division of Reactor Develo;rient ar.d Technology in a major review said that cresert i
data and experimental information are not now sufficient to provide the degree of emergency core cooling usurance that is deemed necessary by the AEC and the head of t'.at division, Pr.
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Milton S1aw, who is the head of the !ivilian Nuclear Reactor Progran $n the government, in a lett er stated. that no assurance I
was yet available that the ECCS couli prevent fuel melting."
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Fuel and waster travel into and out of San Luis Obispo County by truck, train and/orrhip. In the event of a leek or spill along unspecified routes, we would be exposed t) various amcunts of radiation, agalm i
endangering our health and safety.
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"About 10-14 truckloads (new fuel) will be required each year for j
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"... Westinghouse fuel fabrication facility in S. C. a ship-
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irridated. fuel will be transported by oversi::ed truck to the nenrest railroad which ir 16 miles from the plant, then by rail to the repmcessing facility. 7 to 15 fuel assstlies can be handled
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in one shi pent by rail. Based on this plan, a total of 10-38 j
ah pents will be made each year. Destinatic: for these shipents ha::.not been decided but for uurposes of conservative calculation of transportation dose will be assumed to be krnwell, S. C. a j
n shipping distance of 3,300 miles." On page 7-10 of the same I
report, "... A shipent of fuel or waste may be expected to be involved in an accident c.nce ir. a total of 7N,000 shipent-miles.
Using these figures, we can expect 6 or 7 ace dents over the 40-year life of the plant.
B.
Tae major highway (U.S.101) into San Luis 0hapo from the north l
in knowr., immediately north of the ci+v, as Cuesta Grade. This is l
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a treacherous stretch of highway. In 1973 there were 53 accidents, lo of which involved trailer trucks and resulted in 9 fatalities.
(3 tate cf Calif. Transportation Dept.)
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Tne 5 mole stretch of Avila Beach Road (from the entrance to Diablo l
necess 2 oad to Highway 101) is e twisty byway that has had 51 acciden s (25 during daylight hours and 26 af ter dar:.) and 2 fatal-ities ir the 5 years previous to Sept.1(J73. l Jim Hayes, Our Nucitar Neighbo2 IV, San Luis Obispo County Telegram "ribune, Sept. 6,1(J13 3.
Leakage of contaminated coolant resulting fro. improper closing of the casi: is rossible as a result of humin error, even though the shipper is required to follow specific procedures which include tests and examination cf the closed container prior to each ship-ment. Such an accident is highly unlikely du-ing the 40-year life of the plant." Final Environmental Statement, p. 7-12.
E.
ABCVASH-1192,p.61,6/2-6-60s "During shipaent of irradiated fi el r lementa, 30 to 40 gallons of contamiu C ;;;;er leaked from the cnak."
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F.
"1-14-63 One of eleven packages of conteinated precious metals found le aking upon arrival at destination. Decontamination of several rehicles and truck depots necessitated." AEC VASH-1192, i
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G.
There hs va been at least 6 r.ajor accidente snd derailments of Southerr. Pacific trains on the Cuesta Grade sinae 1%9. In Sept.
1%9 three engineers were killed in a complete ferailment of an entire train and in July of 1973, 26 cars of a train were derailed.
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Other accidents of lesser magnitude occurred in Nov.1969, Nov.
1971, another one in July 1972, cet.1972, and July 19/3 Taken I
from the files of the San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune.
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"7-23-64.
When door of freight car broke open during switching operations, two drums containing radioactive material fell out.
Part of contents of one drum spilled in ya.c area but was recover-ed."
Air WASH-1192, p. 79 I.
"D. E. Patterson, in a 1%7 study of shipping risks which is still current, stated for the AEC, 'it is virtually impossible to design a package to survive any pos sible accident. '" The Clear and Present Danger: A Public Repert on Nuclear Power Ila ts,1973 l
5.
Homeownen policies, in general, and oum specifically do not ecver nuclear i
accidento, and the Price-Anderson Act has n maxirt.m hability of 8560 million in total, for all da. ages caused by accidents, both property and personal. The effect to us, and ether citineas nf San Luis Obispo County in the case of a sericus accident, might be financial disaster.
A.
Will the power company n,upply its own liab lity insurance (without l
government help) when he Pr.ce-Anderson Act ermires in NTl?
" State (ofPennsylvania) Insurance.ommissionerHerbertIenenberg B.
said earlier that all nuclear power plants new in operation chould be shut down and no new ones built 2t11 adequate insurance cover-ace was made available by the indus.ry.
He called present under-writing ' totally inadequate'. Denenberg said ttat there was no alternative to shutting down the nur lear power plants unless 'the nuclear establishment can prove inf: nite protection - the only adequate insurance against catastrophic loss from nuclear accidents. '"
San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune, August 17, 1973 6.
Disposa. of rac.ioective wasts a from Diabl Canyon Units 1 and 2 pose another threat to our safety. These rad 1< sctive vastes which remain lethal for perjods of tens o: thousands o; yects and more, must he removed from tie reactor core, encexd, t2 ansported, and stored without the slightest room for any er ror, mechanic al, hwan or natural.
his requircMnt categorically defies the scie; tific laws of probability. The act that radioactive wartes are stored a the pir.t site for up to 1 year
( FSAR 11.5) while they are e t their high. st levels of radioactivity ades still another danger to ou2 health and sfety. Leakages at. ther site s are occarring with increasing frequency, a dding radioactive materials t<
the envi.ronment. Vague and rysterious mer tion 1e made of s "leng tem permane.it on-site storage ares for radwas e solids" (FSAR 11.5-12)
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1 Is Diablo Cany in designated to bacome another Hanford? Dose rates st the i
si te boundary !ue to stored vastes were not given in PSAR 12.1.3 l
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Cmigress onal Record, of Oct. 12, 1973, S 13119-20 notes " Revels-t2 ens in 1%7, IMO, and 1973 that some radioactive roisons have already : raveled underground from Hanford and entered the Columbia l
River."
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"Between 1944 and II/O... eleven < f 149 nue' ear waste storag i phnte e t Hanford, Waah, sprang leass. Most recenti,",115,00 )
l gallons of radioactivity waste leaked from f.;st one ;ank."
Richard H. Sandler and Peter Gmenstein, The Progressive, Nov.
19"3, p. 39.
O.
"An estiuted 7,000 gallons of dange ous radioa:tive liquid wsstes were spilled at the AEC's Hanford, Wssh. facility when a tranafer pipe ove-flowed." Los Angeles Times, Nov.16,1W3 p. 2.
hesame int ider.' was reported in the San Luis Obispo County Telegram-l Tr:.bune lated Nov.16, lW3 The UPI article goes on to say '... a new spill-monitoring system kept the leakage small...more tha i 530,000 :allons os nuclear waste hate leaked into the ground since 19'i8.... Sie plant has been beset by leaks and seepages this y tar.
More thai 2500 gallons a day dribbled into the grourd during april an! May this year from one steel-anc-concrete tank
- otalling 114,000 gallons before the leak was stopped. Another 15,000 gal-l lor.gs hive seeped into the ground from other leaks he past 11 months, officials said."
D.
" Radioactive iquid waste was stored in an undergro.nd tank. The i
piwiine for he concentrate enterec the sten.ge ta 3c through a shteided rise extending from the top of the tank ti approximately one foot abovi ground.... When the riser beceme plucged with con-centrate crys:als below the inlet line, the 31guid flow reversed ant forced it s way through the access plugs. Approximately 13 cu-ies of radioactive liquid waste, primarily cesium, were re-lessed t o plest stream..." May 14, IM7, Aiken, S.C., WASH-1192,
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"' he AEC etil'. look.ng for the cause of a 7,XO gallon leak or
- h. 6hly r adioa :tive.iquida last week, have eNt down both was e e sporat ors a : Hanf >rd Atomic Works.... Beuman said the other e sporat or, w11ch 1i more than 3 years old, is served by a similar p: ne syt tem. The o Lder dwice was shut dowr., he said 'until we g+ t a f.i m fi t as t) what caused this thing a.d make sure it's noi going tc happan again." Los Angeles Times, Nov. 20, 1 W3.
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"The AR has acknowledge no present technical or economically feasib1< way :eru.n mtly to dispose of safely the ho'. radioac tive wastes. Diese wast es are now transported e.nd temporarily stcred in a marner both pr nearious and vulnerable given their lethal persistence for tho2sanda of years." Ralph Eader, The Plain Dealer, Priday, March 30, 1 773.
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Since the plant is located on the coast, it is vul: arable to sabotage not only fron land, but from sea. Of course, any sabotage which might result in explosions to the reactor and associated fac L11 ties and/or the release of radioactivity would nresent great Or.ger to our health and safety. The location of a military base (Vandenberg) within 50 miles of Unita 1 and 2 presents en additional potential dancer to us in the event of war.
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Congressional Record, October 12. 1973 S. 19117 *...on Nov. 11, 1972, three skyjackers threater.ea to bonb the nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge Tenn. Helpless, the AEC shut down its reactor and evacu-at d."
F::AR does nct treat immediate shutdoc proceedures in case of bomb threat or attack.
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Sa Luis Obispo County Telegran-Tribune, rep:-ted Oct. 18, 1973 on a bomb threat at Diablo Canyon Power Plant.
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Ford Foundation scientists, Mason Willrich a*d Theodore Taylor j
draf ted a 575-page report on the dangers of hijacking, theft and sabotage of nuclear materia}s. In an Aug. 3,1973 article written by Jack Andersm, he lucns the authors as svind "If Present trends continue, it scems only a question of time before riome terrorist grot p exp2oits the possibilities fcr coercion which are it. tent in nuclear ft el."
Quoting further fr:e Andercon's article, "There is every ind: cation that terrorista vmld be 'quite willing to resort to unlimit ed violence. '. Even if the terrorists hesitated to set off a nuclear device, they m1 ht peddie stolen or homemade 6
nukes to black marketeers for funds or use them for blackmail."
D.
"Jt st one successful attempt at sabotage on a civilien nuclear power plant, or one severe accident, could run agriculture and water surplies in an area as large as the State of California, force the evac 2ation of some major cities, indstrial centers, and defense installations, cause massive unemployment and economic chaos overni ht, and take a grisly toll in cercer and birth defects 6
in years later." Congressional Record, May 8, 1973, p. S8563 l
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Congressional decord of Oct. Ic, 1(f/3, quotes from former AEC Chairman James Schlesinger, who on Dec. 17, 1072 appeared on " Meet The Press".
"If one intends to crash a plane into a facility and one is able to perstade the pilot that that is the best way to go, there is, I stapect, little that can be done about tnat problem.
The nuclesr p3 ants that we are building today are designe<1 care-ful y to take the innact of, I believe, a 200,000 poz J aircraft arr:.ving st scaethir.6 on the order of 1 >O miles per hour. It will not take the impact of a larger aircraf t."
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"The Air Forcr has used a nuclear power plant en the shora of Lake Michigan is a nractice tar 6et in elmulat~d low-level bombing runs, according to Glen T. Seaborg, Chairman cf AEC." A reprint of an article from the N.Y. Times, April 1, Ic71, was in :he Congressional lecorc, Oct. 12, 1973 S. 19117
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" August 1W1, intruder penetrated pn it gus,rd towers and fences to enter the grounds of the Vernont Yan.:ee atcaie plant. He escaped after woundinE a niEht watchman."
L. Douglas DeNike, "Nvelear Powers Trojan Horse" liCO, Nov.13, !T/3, p.1.
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"In November, 1971, arson caused 85 to $10 million damage at the Indian Foint No. 2 plant just prior o its completion. A maintenance employae was accused of he crime." DeNike(above).
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" March,1973 a guerilla band took tenporary possession of a nuclear station in Argentina." DeNite (above).
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"Of ficers found a stolen truck carryag lethal radioactive mat'arial in a rice field west of Deatunont, Texas. Authorities sai1 the radium 192 could kill a per. ion after an hour's exposure at a distance of one foot." Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10,1973, p.2.
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SEISMICITY We herewith enclos e an anendment to our original petinen, which introduces the issue of seismocity.
Pursuant to Title 10 CFR Parts 50 and 100, and in particular with respect to seismic reactor siting criteria, weshall demonstrate that P. G. and E.
Corport. tion has been derelict in its statutory responsibilities to the public j
and has allowed construr tion of Units 1 and 2 at Diablo Canyon to continue in the absence of scientific assurances that those features of the nuclear installation necesnary for continued operaticn without undue risk to i
the heslth and safoty of the public are designed to res:ain functional.
We feel that the h;chly localized geologic ir.vestigati:ns that P. G. and E.
Corporation did we; e so abbreviated in scope that the applicant has indeed
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violated AEC sitinc factors. If the AEC Seismic Sitire Criteria had been followed, it is entirely possible that the Diablo Canyte site would have been found unaccept.ble due to the relatively high riah to the health and safety of the public.
The Petitioners are aware of only one geologic mapping done of the site and introduced as evidence. It was c.one by :tichard Jaha who was paid by P.G. and E. Corp. to investigate a rectangular area eccewhat less than 3000 f t. by 6000 f t., i.e., less than two-thirds (2/3) of a square mile.
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In lovenber,1973 the Petitioners became aware (via ful'-page headlinen in the Los Ang"les Times o:' Nov. 24, 1973 and the San Luie Obispo County Telegram-l Tr13une cf ::ov. 24,197".) that a U.S. Geological Survey research vessel dis-cov3 red an ffset on the ocean floor on three crossiner and determined it had a minimum length cf three to four miles. It was discovered at a diatance of one to two r.iles from Units 1 and 2.
The vertical com;cnent of the offset 1e ten feet and Ec11y Wr.gner of the USGS's Menlo Park cffice feels that the e is little drubt that the offset is a fault scarp. The Petitioners hereby request thtt the; be given access to the records cf the above-noted off-shore geolog and to the USGS's interpretation of s!.:e.
(Wedocument the above by encicsing Xerox copies of articles from the Los Angeles Times of :lov. 24, 1973 and Dec.1,1973)
The Petitioners learned of additional seismic problems cr. Nov. 2',1973.
(Ieror copy of article from San Inis Obispo County Telegam-Tribune of Nov. 27,1973 is enclosed for documentation.) Dr. Clarence Hall, Professor of Geology at UCLA, has discovered evidence of what may be a major f ault system that passes within five miles, or less, of the Diablo site. Dr. Hall is quoted an saying, with respect to what were originally considered to be three separato faults:
"If they're the same system, they would form the most sigt.ificant fault in the area..."
The Miguelito Fau3 t has been (;escribed in Section 2 5 of the FSAR.
Similar reports are in the San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribu:e f or that day, althou6h the time of day diffors.
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j The design earthqua<es for the plant that were proposed by John A, Blume Associates (p. 2 of the Jan. 12, 1967 Report to P.G. & E.) include an Earthquake D.
Eart1 Richter magnitude 6} quake D is describes as: "An aftershock of Gutenberg-j centered anywhere at the site and at a depth of 6 miles.
The 6 mile focus death of the earthquake is the vertical distance to the point of initial rupture. Since the possibility of surface faulting due to
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this shock is consitered extremely remote, the focus must be assumed to
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occur at the upperm7st extent of the sub-surface fault clane.
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that the " tearing" of the fault plane extends downward.) The estimated depth to the center of the fault plane is 12 miles for Earthquske D."
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i The question arises as to the depth of the Avila quake of 1916, and to the validity of t*ie assumption that the focus of a close-to-site quake would be as deep as 6 niles. As this is the closest recorded quake to the Diabic Plant, it would appear to have a 6reat significance to the safety of the plant.
There is also an w sumption that a type-D quake would be an aftershock, although the Avila quake of 1916 could be described as a aoderate-size l
principal shock rather than an aftershock.
i The existence of tie Avila shock is acknowledged in p. 2.5-66 and 2 5-67 of the PSAR. The report does not consider the shock to have been developed iron the Miguelito Pault, and considers that the " event may well have originated aa a distant effshore shock". The question lies in the quantity of " distant". Cffahore geology is not completely known off the plant.
Similarly onshore geology is incompletely known, as the Irish Hills are brush-coveren, with nuch of the geology concealed. It is possible that active fault traces, capable of producing the Avila quake, could lie just offshore or in the close vicinity to the plant, and that a future shock could develop h16h :.ntensity and high ground acceleration at the plant.
There is no evider..;a that known fault traces, of which there are many, represent all of the existent faults in the area. Many fault types, such as thrusts parallel to bedding planes in the Monterey Pomation, might be easily missed wi';hin the maps made by Hall and others in the Irish Hills.
In view of the wideapread concern, and the potential profound hazard 's the hea.1th and safety of the public introduced by the aforementioned recently discovered geological conditiens, the Petitioners feel that they should be allowed to intervene on the issue of seismicity, in the matter of P.G. & E. 's application for ope ating licenses for Units 1 and 2 of Diablo Canyon. In view of the imediate recency of the new seismic discoveries, we rupect-I fully hope the Commission will not consider this request nontimely.
M kets 50-255 Page 12 of 20 50-323 ADDITIONAL REMARKS 1.
Wefeelthatalloftheabove-listedcontentions(1throuch7)aswell as those pertaining to evacuation routes and seismicity noted herein, are of serious importance and should be admitted as issues of contention before Diablo units 1 and 2 be licensed to commercially produce power.
2.
With re: pect to a considerate n of whether or not the ABC should force the int < rvenors to nresent a single, coordinated, synchronized.,and consolidated $ intervention on the basis of any or all issues, we are stre gly opposed to such a constraint. We are petitioning to intervene because we feel to do so is our social and moral responsibility, but if we are forced to present such intervention within the constraining framework of consolidation, the effectiveness that our limited budget allows, will probably emasculate our presentation. There have been countless on-site meetings between AEC personnel and ?.G. & E. repre-sentatives, that is between the AE and industrin1 '.onain. We observe that airilar consideration should be given to honest questions and/or objections arising from the public domain.
3 We hereby observe that on or around Janusry 7, lW4, ve learned, via a telephone conversation with Tom Hirons (LWR Group 1-3 that he and certain of his AEC associates would meet on January 8, I W4 at the Menlo Park, Califorr.ia, office of the U.S.G.S. for the girpose of discussing the possibility of t.he existence, and nature of earthquake faults off the shore of Diablo Canyon. The raw data, and U.S.G.::. interpretation of them and r.ot been put into open filo. Also, on D cember 18, 1973 at San Luis Obispo, we were told that we could not ha~e access to the above U S.G.S. material until it was put into open fi.e.
It was pointed out tha this was due to U.S.G.S. regulations and it was explained that such a cisclorure w>uld be unfair to P.G. & E.
Subsequent to Dec.18, we made a telephone call to Holly Wagner, U.S.G.S., Monlo Park, and he confirmed that we c >uld not see the data until it was put into open file.
In view of these fa.:ts, we cannot understand why P.G. & E. was informed of the Jan. 8,1974 meeting, why they were invited to attend, and why they did attend. Ve consider this situation to be a aerious act of favoritism ertended to P.G. & E. and the nuclear powe
- industry, at the expense of the public.
Page 13 of PO Dockets 50-275 50.-323 AFFIDAVIP Elizabeth E. Apfelberg end Sandra A. Silver, being duly sworn, declare:
We are President and mee ber, respectively, of the San Inia Obispo Mothers for Peace anc having received authorization by unan1: nous vote of its members f
to represent 61em, petition for leave to intervene on behalf of the San Inis Mothers for Poace and as individuals. The contentions stated herein are made on the good-faith belief in their accuracy and in the accuracy of their f
underlying assumptions. We declare under penalty of perjury that the fore-
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.o Staff Writer laturday. The teirp runsj wers both m ed by be before the-PGW p!st can g4 taranet to the San Miguel.toj udity bdore..,reau,n beg. n into operation.
3.h W M d3 covered mi Edna } auh) i on the pwer piara. They we t Hall said the significance of g g g,,,, g,
c c.sidered 'he f aults" to t e the Edna tauh's being close to beteved to be separate trac-l The Edna Fatdt connects just 131e San Andrers Fault, 45 the plant would increase it there.
tures in the ea2th's surface
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i (wn:ch connect to form a major fault,, Vest Huasna Fau't e admina Fad, uo near Sa'i Szmem p
system that pa.sses about five t t x t e n ds fr6m Tmtchedl and east of the %,est Hua.,ua miles intand fivm the Diabloi Teserynir at the somh countyinu al f auit. separada,
Canyuo Ntklear puwer phat, iti:ine to just nort!! of Camp & n ite said the Twer plant vas was *.camd Monday.
fas Ottspo) Just souch of repm p.gned to esttM jnks i n (distance bety een geolowe,
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ceoingy at the Urnversity of "" b uey N O'f.l Nacimiento Fat.;is. If the J. att wn the Sar Andre.u
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F, caa wrttstand an earthqt..ke Califorrla in las Angeles, said 8* *
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would link.the Edna Fault, Han said he fettnd evidence whanc an < 1r2 quake from eaquak in las Angeles the
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S n n nando Fauk. mow poingical ma,as stopping about toccvet wi:h an unr.anx t 9u.; The utihty w s wt aware of uly a :ew ke? pat em.h.j 1
tive miles east of Diablo 11at starts at the north en ; of: U a 1I's thec 7 2%t 'im quate caused enensive dama;;e Canyon, to an 80-m!1e-ong fault Estero Bay and ends abom one terconnectmg.udt z.,nes, he I"
^ 4*I'8d sptem from Santa.Iaria to al!e north o' Cambria. (dall sa4-M ngnowWd eat me
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Unit 2 by a year later. No dre Tribune Monday, sa;.~g ad.
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said it is very possible the long! dicate-When bnked a a map, Msj fault system is stin acnve.
faah sys'em takes o a the s iape "I woted..can that a M a flattened rectarge.
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The Ai:C memo stated. A fad m y be Napa!
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-Moverrent at or r closed major fauh was 20 miles cal Su vey sa,id the scarp cround su face at l<
away. The Times learned Friday.
appeared to be abou: 10. Wnce within the past The Atomic Energy 'Com:nission faults is a. major considerat. ion in feet high running three to 000 years' mt of a rt was Totified Monday of t,e dis-picxmg and approving plan sites.
four mi:es..
-Movert coverv just two miles offsho e from A massite earthquake cot d result' the c oastal plant,.vhich i: more in the release of deadly ra 'loactive The AEC has recently curing nat.re 'within thar half complete l on a site 12 materials if the temblor. xceeded published new criteria for past 500 00" years' me
--Sligitt ground seismic consid. rations in mile. southwest of San Luis Obispo.
lant,3 ability to withs and the power p! ant sitings.
ment at the plant site t it. as not clear, however, why the fault was not detected before the The Diablo Canyon plam is.'de -
plan; reached its present stage of signed to take a t retty hmty jolt,'-
N' cons uction.
according-eo the PG&E spokesman.:
+ [,, O A n. ed if the fault could jeocardiie However, the design criteria for the is directly attrib. table -to plant was based upon the three lar-the p ant kn AEC official sa.d:,'It s gest known faults in the region, the.
theJault, thus linking' the -
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. closest of which is 20 miles from the site with 'the fat it. '
Ho ever a PG&F spokesman re-
.e fault discovered by the USGS
'A' c -ding 'to the AEC, spon :d: "You're not going to get is 10 times closer.
substantial. pro ;ress has me tc say we're alarned.*-
The PG&E spokesman said his beer made 'a reient years Th. U.S. Geologicd Survey. which company "had not done anything-in the ability of scientists I disx cred the fault is expected to specifically' to de ermine the seis...
to determine " capable" furm.a a complete report in about mic nature of the offshore area, butj faub s.
two s eeks.
had relied instead on information emb trked ontmajor pro- '
As a result the AEC has
'Wa will have to wait until the re.
furnished by other corporations and.
port '4 in to deterrrine the signifi. the USCS.'
grac s aimed..at locating cance of it (the fau:t),'.the PG&E The U.4GS is now making,a com.
and analyzing faults in spoke man said. -
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Th-huge plant. rans!sts of two coast under a contract with the AEC.
er p ants nay be d* sired.
reacti unit.<. The fi'st is 7M com.. An AEC interomce memorandum.
I plete and the.second Is.'?",% fin-dated Lv. 21 no:ed that the AEC, ished. Togetaeri they will' supply. had been,informe.1 hov.13 pf 'A fnore han 2 million kilowatts. repre.. fault that has recently been discov(
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"I was the chief scientist'on. at.1 iablo Canyon uowed.tnat
,,j mlgg g g$ W.gp that survey," said Greene. "We thers was a lapr of rgiocer.e p.,
g,.p,3 y[ftd kn-v there were (cults offshore. rock - presumed to be alout,
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v were ac- 'derl in by cretar aus dept its kW p n H 9: 9 discovered taat tre$s from th, "i
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a Cruce said the displacement fNfs.i c.,.
ftc Mk prob' ms there. 'lhere was
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l cro) ed m eral 11) es."
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9 -I Gre :ne said cart of the the garp appeared to rur for f'T N seisnde survey cenducted fwn "several nd'es" patallel to the 9#
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the tesearch vesal George 1 coas' - which trends north west s NNh i.$ sg.
.k b.k k i o Kele: was paid for by the to sc atheast at Diablo Canyr n.
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m'er dl studies in the area r 'd "Ger eraDy, the lon;er the lault, o '._
the < ommission ae ked us to t:c i
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the nore rtcent and actise we M;'.fi M~h; 'g'MPM c more detated look at Estero thir.k it is."
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It's not su? rising to find such
< displacements off the Central ves I he I
s that ss ca e wo "very much like t'.e Pueblo that to' be ana yzed by Gerjog:e was used in Nort.. Korea."
Survey scie 2tists.
directly to Washington."
byestigathg the pssibly acive Aboard the shio, Greere rnd "Our normal procedure," he (Unit 1 of.the Diablo Canyon fault wou d be a set up a the members of Us geophysical said, "wouM be to give a sort project. is expected to be mor ;onng progr:m.e.
team operate it ;hly senst.ve of 'in-house' preliminary rgott completed by Augus', Im and 1
instruments whic! give a prt.!e to the AEC because they h..! ped Unit 2 by a year later. No date
,,Unfor. * 'te,.i,,,,, he acied, of tre rocks beneath the oesan pay for the study.
had been set for licensing "we don't tv any seh rac floor. As the sh! > sails a rid
" Bat if t' ere's enough public ' earings which mnst be held monitoring su
.at ca.*: te pattan on course < that prodnee pressure, e might oper. cur 5efore AEC will perrmt the set up in tb ocean. Our, '
one. nile squan s, an an. - files to PGl E and to the public. ?G&E pla:t to go.. hto, National Center 3 r Eartig. jce derv ater spart is Dashed ev-try We've s'.r-ady "had several operation.)-
..Research: is so :!ng on that four seconds. The sound wases bquiries al out it, some ;;oing Greene saJ the next step in,. _ cow."
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m, s e,u M y 'ht Pose Major, roblem to Diablo, '.ixpris Say I,,,,. c.
E' LU.i OYE f 5-t m :,wt '.nw t it
'*1 Mudy of the cycih uake i
- !o u. ar, b... e i, ;er t u d i a a tw n 2 A 5 r nediateif s awm ofa;
%oh.i more hb a reconnal.uance ir pose consoles near ;
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iu, n d,! at the plan is more than ggggg g,
'l mition. the.iEC concluded thst off.
hali. umpleted, note f.etiu eaak be expected 13 Offe:als with both '1e Atom En-n n generally para iel to the >.boce 7".he
- han townd tne site. 'i he j
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,xe.m' sion an the i!.S Geol-J n, t ('p,qtant cot.ce:n is over.w i
o i..g ;mTn conceo d tha ch a ;
a-itudy wa< ma' comph. ed prior a au./
m.tentiai for surface duplacement ixneath tu pl ant itself.
theit rg emstrucu.or. of the. blo Wagne. t - findings.3o far hae ;
9a
-u supported the earlier conclusion,in-j ch ayu t al.u.'.
clading the discovery v one reia-j The e.% now ty der way indi-i tively young fault about hree m!!es cates that :t lent wo, fat s !ie from the site.
within two la three n ties of th. S66.5
. ibat fault came as o lite a sur-prise to us.' Wagner sa,h durin:: aa mil..no s coaoies. b... pre..nt' inary :
,. g.,;;,,,e in his Menlo. urk ottice.
esi-icn e Jr ikates :e r ult may l Preliminary examinat in of :he i o
um pm.- a nujor 1. oblen for the evidence indicates that ue i.1ull is i H nL lbc. ver, it J:. he everal penhably not mu h more. nan a m.le i
monti +--g the earlb st-hefe e crit-or so in !ength, cunning meaDel in -
ini'o.e, tion can tv anrxerr1.
L:te.hore. Wagner.mid, 'l Sat would Mac m of the urge vy $ehhd the make it a relativ-ly minor fault and ele ekta has beir cel:ect< ! dur-
"of r'o gr a t cone. rn " he a.ided.
ing h.t rcrong time. ' the ye and The !.ct that a comprehensive is thvef.va Ws than ;atisfact iry in su:Tey o. the off.hore are a was not '
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qualdy and inadequa e in nce.e. ac-completed prior to construction of cordirg to scientists - ith the :SGS, Ihe plant may prove of gieater con. ;
which in conducting ne stud...
carn than the actual discovery of the
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I underuken ',efore tb e AEC granted Under the law, the applicant j
authouatio1 to Paci.c Gas & Elec-tric efi, t, build tr plant. Holly Plene Turn to Page 5, Col.1 i
W:. w r, 1.b e GeolNical Si rvey's l ch,e! denact on th. projec said:
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.W' to ir v knowge. It'< some- (
thirg ' hat j would ' ave exp.cted? '
.\\ek :d li 7agner at ri;h: Wil,
q ilam daenm:1. chief af the.EC's i 4
site ar.aly<is branch. eid:
"I think that's tru '
PCul' al n has ack owle4ed that it ha riot done a det Hed eurvey on it< nun. and the.\\.C did r.ot re-quc4 PG&S to mak such a trudy until mt A.:xust.
Osmmill cdded, hotvever, that the. !
curre-t nWy has not indicatet that i the AEC ernd in gr1nting approval i for the site.
IIe.1::o p.inted out that extetsive I enshor:: stucies were ;onducted, an& i cor.shitrable evident-was avai!able '
-mainly frem oil co coanjes-.; bout c: rthquake activity o '3hore.
!r. was k, myn, for '1 stance. that i
n rent'. xined abor: 10 mile:: off. !
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c tino..d 0 m rirst hp e a t,in n they made t h e a fault that has been ac i J;
wr ng decision.
tive in the past few thou-.
y' r quired t N 9N W9 t.es..
1.
a Effnets to determine lhe sand w-
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i scole of l<.ne thn3,s reasons, scis-
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mic inbrmatm.n u cimsd-N{ s s
hamtrete.1 by weather con-
%n-e.
th.'.i:C has d ;tiofia.
crei vi:al in the siting of P.
r. v.M, y c.f a i-Vince the study it done nuclear power nlants. Fa-U u in t e ann.icanta with the aid of floatin : de-riUtles can he.lc4i;me.1 to
,.w, url mulpis vicc < t h:u. plat,suic v.ithstaad jolts - within y.
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- i c orrect,'
mnh;es of rock layers oe-limitatinn3---but an ew.h.
x t w.s.U,s Garamii.i.
]nw tne surf ace, sea condi-quake that exceeds the de-
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th AEC tions have a direct imoact
< alt ed en"! thi< :,tne on the quality of the re.
sMn capacity of a nuclear 9,,n.,i Lia salts, pove p. ant cou'd reau't i
,.o niic.mc.md to The devices.,end down in tne release of large
- nd a A
- y the i?6CS, round waves that strike amounts of radioactive cmiil m id:
various !ayers of rock and materials.
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- In offshote exploration, ceiv That mintmation
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c a. min ? ra bi.v-is.,ers.
i ed into a uu pboa rd, sgnals from the research
.> " w ~ive t h tce
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veuel can penetrate tha
- ~n: Tl i.hae se:3mol. printer that inscrib s a,e-ries of.ines on ton; roils
.ea floor.up to.A. M feet. un-r
' " ave three' h
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der optimum concatons.
nn w 7%tsts entning in of Paper. '1,he iine,
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But rough seas weaken
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- nut month or form to r%,. layers, but, m.
unfortunately, they also the synals.
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conform to the waves.
'"Hn.ver. 4. the time To the 1a y m a n, the "The sea wa s f a i r 1 y ;
th3.r.:N1 raview for printout I o o k s like an rough when we ennducted i ahn which rtarted in unintelligible b u n c h o; the survey (off Diabin t
m lmes. sometimes parallel, Canyon).
.cn the sn;nal i.
7, ve E H not even
.e a.1: min;ris!..tnc!
- nmetime< twated. some, wam t carried very deep,
- rW r nt iff wa, times com erging. But to a h2f'er oil genM2ist, hke Wnener, the The deepest penetration w;Nesc v r. n..r.d e nt on i
printout locks hke a ohn-W 3.hout a0 feet,
' On~<@af s.:rver a
t n t r a p h of the sub>e, rhts survey s h n u l d r.
n va.,i S..j ttha.
have bean done during the 7
acy h,.
ru a nmued
. la,Iwi nre man summer or spring, when q
anu the weather was calm.
1
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. 1.myers of flit shale,,or he said...But we a id to do caned..,n M anel ha va3 Instance are pictured as a i
3 it ym..ec %,e were under I
.,,...,e.vn a wries of fht, parallel hnes.
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r -!:cd : >.4 S n n f f.
Hn'vever, if the shale has we wnr.ced it m i nc y wpheJcal camin-buckled tmder geological a y'h j
a lh *" CI"I5"*
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precures, the Mnes rise J
M am pH there mav 11 G*
rr ?Wirm the and t'all like hills and val-
. n e n.,9n. tr n n,ir,aq.M.
ye ther faults in the hO levt
- 'd
- mallow a reas closer in olv.
A sharp break and oSet shore hut he was ur.able 3.n ' a ".d ', n.%0 in the lines wnuld iad:cate to survey that reginn dur-
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,o Ohnre the presence of.. fault, in; the cruise. That wdl
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(%., n..y": -,,f,n,' '.,,.' r m "'
Once a,ault has.oeen have to wait for calmer thd a
.l,, nh n t i a D;C la-found, it n'ust. be traced.so weathe" I
that its lenetn can ne ue.
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to termined. The pot ennal in aridition, he b ham-intensity of an earthqua <e pered in his efforts in de-f ir depyndent primarW termine age of inuits he-j bn, r.,c.,., l t came of ihe a em q
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core amples v/hwh couh huncred mt.es g,e.severa,
.wr.e aults ai r
prnvHe rocks that enuld i s
S.M ccc.e's i
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n? and b. <l.ned.
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- wr'd MiMv' o e. t h Nnpa a p 1 n' m mpabw of mtucting
" Corn ;amples are ver;.
mwive destruction. Oth. expensive," he said.
U;m mi'! s M:
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- o. e are asking crs are relatively short, Genatally, he behevc3 m (P~ r,'3 to do some and thus are of much.ess tha area vdl not prove in f*
.' fn nt q.m s,.n t.,
n i Concern-he so active that it wH i i ;,.7,2 W :inea i; a o c.or.
pns.e a + nous thrae t, &e
..,. l a. e ched, not GenerMly, the chser the plant. Itut he conceded his s
u o *n i a vd in 1mit, the greater the dan-findin;s :n far are very in.
.e pai. ni cr!&I7ia ga r.
corrNeive.
v.h, k ' in m t i,n Aga h ahn important. A
" All I can say is this area
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ipo of the v.ence fault that h,< not been ac.
neant more offshore stu-ha d. "a d > nle, ove far railimns of yaars is ly. More than wvve been v
a f<
+ ce i en he ra 2ch im,!arennus than nnie in dn " he said.
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