ML20237E863

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Forwards Public Announcement of Execution of Contract W/ Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Providing for Govt Participation in dual-purpose Desalting & Electric Power Project.Announcement Will Be Made to Media on 671120
ML20237E863
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Site: 05000307, 05000308
Issue date: 11/16/1967
From: Harris J
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To: Ramey, Seaborg, Tape
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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.;0E TO DII'0:10 KD Cani;.;i'U..u.;f.f: The cere:.lony referred to in the.fbilowin.

anncuacen2at will be held at 3:00 p.m. O T (12 noon P3T).donday,.! avenue.r 20, 19v7, at the :1cwporter Inn,.bwport 32ach, California.

Tr.e.itcaic "dicrgy Commiccion and the Gri' ice of Caline Water vf tl.e

.b_,_rt:_..; of,he It.terior tcday executed a contre.cL m the.. ; L 0.,v116a..

.mter L.c crict of Scutnera Califurr.1:_ prvvidit._ Jvr Cuv -r....c.a 1..r;.ielp..-

tica in the usrid' itr;ast dual-purpoco uecaltin,ar.: vluetric gvwer ;,rv-jact.

It will alco be the first such cc:.= rcial plai.t to be nucleu fueleu.

"he contract wa: cisned by Dr. Olenn T. Scabor, Chairm ci' thu 16toalc o

r.ur;y Cc=:.iccion; Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior; v4d Jianry J.

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dll:, Ganarcl Mana;er of the Xctropolitan Water Listrict.

..: the sate time, a separate contract wa: cigr.ed by the Listrict and the utilities which will participate in the project.

Se contracts were executed at the :;ewporter Inn, ;!vwport hach, Californic., fc11 cuing a luncheon atter.ded by local and state officials, and 1

ty U.'S. Government, Congressional, industry and utility officials associ-l 1

ated with the project.

In his remarks, Ir. Seaborg pointed to the significance of thin type j

cf plant by saying: "Tdday's ceremony is much core than a begireing.

Already this project is a key element in extensive plans for additional uses cf desalting to ceet the water requirements of the future. Great interest has been shown in the potential of large-ccale desalting using nuclear enercy to change the character of the arid regions of the world, (tore) 9 0

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.. =::ltin; is becomin; an important cct:ideration in the phns of =ny c * ;.* L C C. "

Ca2 proposed facility's two nucler.r er plants will senar.te 4. cut 1,il; 2;nwatts of electricity and supply s eam for a distill ; ion

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.h.; vill have the capacity initially to p=,iuce 50 million ;,allons of di:-

ti"ai water per' day and ulticately to pre,i: ice 150 tillion callons cf dis-ti"__21 v:.;;;r pa:t day.

Cne nuclear stos: supply systea and turbir.a ;,ancr:.:Or

.. L is cug.:;C by the Los Anseles Dapartten; cf Water u ?cuer, ci tha ether vi2 ic cv.cd jointly hy the Southern CC' 'Ornia Edison Co. and the Sc.a Li ;; Oc L 21ectric Co.

l T;: Oictrict will build and own the decrai,ing plcnt, as ve11 as the 1

ic i.i and c trestle caucauay connecting it, t.o the mainlana.

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te:=ical :.scistance to the Metropolitan Wc. er District c_.1 will obtc.in i

ne; technolo.-ical data and information fcr use in the Interior's caline 1

w:.ar programs and the AIO's civilian nucles.: power pro 6rc. 7Ce A30 fi : :ial ascistance will not exceed $15,000,000, and the Interior cssistance will not exceed $57,200,000.

l "ne proposed offshore plant will produce enough fresh water to meet tic n:-eds of a city of 750,000 and will core than doubic the combined es,= city of all the debalting plants in the world today. FTnen the facility is ec pleted, it will represent an invest =est of about $500,000,000.

Che Atocic Enercy Cocsiscion received in Septe,6er an application g.

frcs he Ics Angeles Department of Water & Power an'd a joint application 1

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fr= the Scuthern California Edison Co. and the San Dieso Gad & Electric i

Co. fcr pcrtits to construct the two nuclea reactors of the proposed (more)

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pswer.lant;.. Ecfor..he AEC can r:.ake a actercint. tion on ::.:. app"ications, a pualic herin; nu:.*:c held.

T s nucia rea::=s vill be of the cc=.orcially av ' ' ' a li $t water-l cooled ani -coiaratei : n e.

The applicants c.re now evalu:. ing bids frc suppliers of the nucier steam supply cysta::ic. Further sc.fety and technical in'cr.r. tion will be r.i;.itted to the ICC after awards have bean cada for t;;c c jor nucle:.r cc:;,c:nonts. The prelitins.ry cafety anal;'si.s repert:

t'.at acco panied both applications included only siting and e.nvircncental c

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