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Suppls J Fouchard 621226 Discussion Re a Grendon Request That Public Hearing on Reactor Be Held in State of Ca. Grendon Should Be Informed That Hearing Will Be Held in State of Ca.Related News Articles Encl
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 12/27/1962
From: Dunesia Clark
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l This is to supplement' Joe Fouchard's discussion with .

you on December- 26 concerning Dr. Alexander. Grandon's .

y4, request that the public hearing on the Bodega Bay. '

reactor be held in California. '

i Dr. Grendon called:the SAN information office on  !

December 26 to inform AEC that s' citizen group was' I l

reported to be circulating petitions requesting that  ;

the' hearing be held in California. The citizen ~ group i reportedly is implying that such a petition is' the 'only way that the hearing could be held there. . Dr. Grendon believes that some firm expression from ABC that the l

  • hearing will be held in Californ*.a should be made now, j even though we still do not have an application 'for '

construction permit.

j j We recoassend that you inform Dr. Grendon that when the

/ PG end E ' application is ready for hearing, the hearing j l, will be held in California. We believe this is. consistent with past practice of the Commission where unusual citizen interest has been expressed (Elk River, for example). ;It also will help to show the citizens ~ of the Bodega area that we are aware of their interest, and we are voluntarily planning to hold the hearing in California. We believe that Dr. Grendon would plan to make your letter public.

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Two recent news. stories are attached which are indicative-of the growing interest in AEC proceedings concerning Bodega Head.

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l From the Sacramento Bee, Tuesday, December 25, 1962

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Association to Preserve Bodega Head and Harbor is circulating a petition against - l 1

e the Pacific Gas and Electric Company Nuclear Power Plant at Bodega Head. The .j petition now being circulated in Sonoma County is aimed at the Atomic Energy s

a. Comnission, the State Public Utilities Commission, and the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. The petition _ appeals to the three public bodies asking for a public hearing. The measure also asks for public hearings in Sonoma County.

The AEC has yet to grant a construction permit to the utility. for the reactor. j The Association is attempting to have these hearings held on the West Coast. j ox e #

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Faciers Are Argued  ;

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tion. he wJrf eni sumoarda now,actorcrror in the test and training re-in ust in this country are only;cause. Dr. Sargent said the actual i .

" guesses. " is still unknown.

"The safe dosc" ' The intent of reactor safety de.

he said. "is no dose." al radiation.-l sign." . said Dr. Thornton. Is of -

"But we must em.nider W bNc-l course to bulld in automatic, fall-fits and risks" of atomic energy,l%fe devices to prevent accidents in spite of operator error."

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benefits '*sheidd not be maje byadding . this that the jid;; ment on tj iscientists, who are only onnerversliaccident occurred."

in the field of nature. The deci bniling water reactor afThe PG&E proposal lon reststo on you. and should not{'llead tuang , Dodega a" .

be delegahti sci?ntists." , .

.. new kind of con- ,.

, j Dr. Tho.ston Sntgent. Univer* tainment system . 4. callod pres- '

g .y ;sity of California research scian' sure suppression containment "Dr4 .

' Ltist at the Donner Laboratory nl.Thornton said. "which is yet to

,g , s Medical and Bio Physics, who out- be ies'cd on a working reactor."

lined the major known reactor ae- , . -

4 cidents, including the in acci- R d k fim W b f4 de'it twolving a snaall boiling wa scale opuadon in the 1luedt ter reactor three C Idaho that killed ay plant my ME a,s to pu t iinto commerC881 operation this ,l

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f ' * ! fore gaining AEC approval some .

j two yeart ago. , , ,

l (The company says the " unique

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  • hasards resulting from an acciden. i tal release of radioactivity. is be. j lieved to be a significant advance <

in the art"'of reactor building). ,

' Dr. Richard C. Sill. University i

- of Nevada physics professor, who I

" ' outlined the professional physiq cists' concern over the dangers of-  !

radiation, and who said it is '  !

difficult to get " technical informa-

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tent scientists who are free from

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He saw "just one way you can proceed at this juncture and re' '

tain traditional democratic Instito. 1 tions and processes. Yma can de-

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  • i mand by petition, publicity, and pos- .

- e e sibly by legal action that the permit - 1

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'been pmperly evaluated." '

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  • The su!cty of .Prific Gas L day night's ;nectir.g before about).id hiaccurecies" in what was l Mr. Radu de-Tlectric Co.'t proper.ed nuclear 120 pen.oas said flady the Do iirc.icnted but when pressed byl "TMs ma n. our intelligenec! ! '

reactor at Esdep licad is the dega plant is likely to have an reveral of she speakers finally lclared, " ire.ults new baule cry of oppo:.ition to the atomic accident; but they said said he thought they were ." errors We hate the right to dish any.

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cc.mpany's pkns for a pact plant the safety systems are untried on'ia interpretation."

Dut h: did promise the groap M r. Grendon apologised.

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a full scale-and that thet question [ hat he would ask that the Atomief A ser es of ocakers at a meet- cf pub'ic protec' ion should be Eacrgy Commission proceedings Speakcts and issues in; in Santa poss Saturday night more fully explored.

an PG3.E's cont.truction permit ap- Some of the oprakers and issues sketched the haar6 cf rr.hation A recurring theme was that the and si reactors in ge.A.el :ccms. " experts" should not be trusted alication--the next big sicp bc raiacd:

And others cathned p:.th of acqby the public. but that the public. d locally. I Dr. Malcolm ?ctersan, represen-tivn that include appeala to the should be fully informcd of the M pr:dicted he would be sue tative of the ',rcater SL Louis Sonoma Cour.ty Luicrvuors and's.lfety and then make a decision omk! in. getung the hearing'CNzent Con. 'ttee for Nuc! car .

cou t action to halt the u'.ility com- on the plant. a ,

moved from Maryland, where they Information ar.J diractor of the are customarily held. Wash'ngton Universit/ Division :f pany's phns until further studies ,

Midnight Debate And he said the AEC's proceed- Gastroenterology o u t1i n e d the i can be inade.

Tha bir.[ga$ iti on ,in thej carherl 'fhe relauve calm of $lc.Qngs would dealsources with the questions of raciation and the ef. l battle bcfor'c' the PMes.Utiliucs. hour,meetin; was rippled ricar'oT rt:1c'or saic:yr-?.r440ld the !cets ,in rann-cancer, shortering Cornmission-which U.c com'pWnNnight when Alexander Gren.' crowd that "you can't be your of life and genetic cianges trhns- )

mitted from generathn to genera.

won-were rgumeca that thcl don, the Governor's Co-Ordinatoriwn doctor, you can't be your own ion.

plant nuld QLroy the recreation,'of Atomic Encrgy Devdopment expert." Scientists and nat.ons disagree j scenic and wientihe potendal of and Radiauon Proicetior.. entered' ht rankled John nadu, Santa '

nos. who with Marvin E. Brown. on whpt it, a safe" !cvel of radia-the Lodeg . cadlan6 and Bodep!!he discussion. (Continued en Pugs 2. Col 3)

! There as an obscrter. Mr. Gren V..Dey Tord, are to form a "stccr.1 liarbor.

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Peril at Bcdoga Head Ed;:or-The Public Utilities Commission has coproved the P.G.

& E. Bocega Head proicct-virtu-a!!y as presented by P.G. & E. and with no safeguards assured for that scenic and unique area. ,

The arguments by Dr. Thom-

' , ton 5 argent (The Chronicle, November 11) seemed convincing- ',

ly to refute the reasons presented by P.G. & E. for its choice of this .

s location..

Specifically, the very great possibility that a temperature in- "

version in the local waterway could raise temperature for as much as a few days to a level where much of . -

the life would be kl!!cd alone makes the site most incompatible with the needs for producing

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who spoke here tnnight." ,

He saw Mr. Grendon in the rear nology geochemistry professor). of the room at the Odd Yellows Max Kortum. Petaluma rancher hall and asked him to answer a and a strong figure in the battle question from the floor about the 4 before the PUC carlier this year. possibilities of "o'her uses" of the '

told the group that Sonoma Coun- Bodega site other than an electric _.

ty Supervisors were " fooled con- power plant. "thousand inaccuracies" statement ^

tinuously by the word ' steam Mr. Grendon used that as a plat. which brought a knot of speakers plant when the permit for the inrm from which to explain the around him. He said there were

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, plant was granted. ouicial mechanim y 1% "so rnany that it is impossible-

,- They didni know then that the safety of the plant. to detall" them, but on pressure plant was to be atomic-powered. grom a couple of the speakers con.

he said, but now he said he hopc.s He intervenes in proceedings be. ceded some might have been "m,is.

fore the AEC, he said, on behal; a " proper hearing can be held"

,by the county on the use permit of state agencies "to see that noth. interpretations.

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It issu'ed in 1%0. ing is . overlooked in the way of P.ut " extravagant things were said" about the " relative has-Phi! Iip Berry, Oakland lawyer safety." ards" of the plant, and the " tone who represented the Sierra Club A " measured risk" is a price .

jat the PUC hearings, told the of Progress. Mr. Grendon said, of the m,eeting was not to inform, but to mis-mform."

' group he finds strength in the and "we must not stifle progress ,

by not doing anything." The meeting was sponsored by

, argument that the use permit was iUcgal, on grounds that PG&E Mr. Pesonen told the state off , the Northern California Assocla-a tion to Preserve Bodega Head and didn't submit complete plans and cial that he presented "a very specifications on application. able case for a scry disabled sub- Harbor, the Bodega Bay Chamber "One of the really tragic things," ject." and said Mr. Grendon an.

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lo said, "is the attitude taken by swered " glibly," working "at 'a Unitarian Fellowship. of Commerce and the Santa Rosa ,

the Board of Supervisors in this great tactical disadvantage."

  • county." That attitude he defined Mr. Grendon objected; he wasn't as " arm;; ant and presumptuous
  • being glib, he said; his answers ,

in "not holding one public hear. were " carefully thought out and ing" on the question of the permit. honestly spoken."

. David,Posonen, organizer of the Mr. Grendon agreed-in answer meeting and a leader in the Sierra to a question from Mr. Pesonen-Club battle against the plant be. that he'd attempt to get the AEC

. , fore the PUC, told the crowd that hearings held locally. '

'"this isn't over yet." But he warned that only testi-mony of "crperts" or those direct.

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. declared. " demands a sleptical at- After the meeting he made his

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