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Harold L. Price L DATE:
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$UBJECT: IDCAT3DN OF BODEGA REACIOR HEARING DPI:JF fa 433 l
This is to supplement' Joe Fouchard's discussion with.
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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 l
December 26 to inform AEC that s' citizen group was' I
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 l
believes that some firm expression from ABC that the 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
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PG end E ' application is ready for hearing, the hearing j
will be held in California. We believe this is. consistent l,
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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i PETITIONERS OPPOSE PGE NUCLEAR PLANT 1
.i Santa Rose, Sonoma County, California:-----The Northern California' j
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Association to Preserve Bodega Head and Harbor is circulating a petition against -
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the Pacific Gas and Electric Company Nuclear Power Plant at Bodega Head. The
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petition now being circulated in Sonoma County is aimed at the Atomic Energy Comnission, the State Public Utilities Commission, and the Sonoma County Board s a.
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.
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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
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i al radiation.-l sign.". said Dr. Thornton. Is of -
' The intent of reactor safety de.
"The safe dosc" he said. "is no dose."
"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 j
in spite of operator error."
l benefits '*sheidd not be maje byadding that the jid;; ment on t
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scientists, who are only onnerversliaccident occurred."
n the field of nature. The deci bniling water reactor afThe PG&E proposa i
ilon rests on you. and should not{'llead tuang a "
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- be delegahti to sci?ntists."
.. new kind of con-Dr. Tho.ston Sntgent. Univer* tainment system. 4. callod pres-j
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' Ltist at the Donner Laboratory nl.Thornton said. "which is yet to be ies'cd on a working reactor."
Medical and Bio Physics, who out-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 1lued ter reactor t
three C Idaho that killed ay plant my ME a,s to put
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l (The company says the " unique
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, personnel and the public aga!nst hasards resulting from an acciden.
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lieved to be a significant advance j
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-tion and evahtation from 1compe.!
I tent scientists who are free from Lnancial or administrative re-j straint."
He saw "just one way you can proceed at this juncture and re' tain traditional democratic Instito.
tions and processes. Yma can de-i 1
mand by petition, publicity, and pos-sibly by legal action that the permit -
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a ance until the whole subject... has
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- -i tile later said two possible con-ultants who would be "Independ,-
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Ing committe " to solielt anti plant By tmN 13GD41rL j None of 'he speakers at satur. do1 cd he found "a thous]peutions.
was The su!cty of.Prific Gas L day night's ;nectir.g before about).id hiaccurecies" in what proper.ed nuclear 120 pen.oas said flady the Do iirc.icnted but when pressed byl "TMs ma n.
Mr. Radu de-Tlectric Co.'tEsdep licad is the dega plant is likely to have an reveral of she speakers finally lclared, " ire.ults our intelligenec!
reactor at 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.
cc.mpany's pkns for a pact plant the safety systems are untried on'ia interpretation."
lthing we want..."
a full scale-and that the question [ hat he would ask that the Atomief
- r. Grendon apologised.
Dut h: did promise the groap M there.
cf pub'ic protec' ion should be t
A ser es of ocakers at a meet-in; in Santa poss Saturday night more fully explored.
Eacrgy Commission proceedings Speakcts and issues sketched the haar6 cf rr.hation A recurring theme was that the an PG3.E's cont.truction permit ap-Some of the oprakers and issues 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 can be inade.
Midnight Debate And he said the AEC's proceed-Gastroenterology o u t1i n e d the i
Tha bir.[ga$ on,in the carherl 'fhe relauve calm of $lc.Qngs would deal with the questions sources of raciation and the ef.
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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-
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won-were rgumeca that thcl don, the Governor's Co-Ordinatoriwn doctor, you can't be your own mitted from generathn to genera.
plant nuld QLroy the recreation,'of Atomic Encrgy Devdopment expert."
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scenic and wientihe potendal of and Radiauon Proicetior.. entered' ht rankled John nadu, Santa Scientists and nat.ons disagree j
the Lodeg. cadlan6 and Bodep!!he discussion.
nos. who with Marvin E. Brown. on whpt it, a safe" !cvel of radia-
! There as an obscrter. Mr. Gren V..Dey Tord, are to form a "stccr.1 (Continued en Pugs 2. Col 3) 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 location.
s the very great Specifically, 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 n.
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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 ^
Mr. Grendon used that as a plat. which brought a knot of speakers
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tinuously by the word ' steam plant when the permit for the inrm from which to explain the around him. He said there were
, 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.
He intervenes in proceedings be. grom a couple of the speakers con.
he said, but now he said he hopc.s fore the AEC, he said, on behal; ceded some might have been "m,is.
a " proper hearing can be held"
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,by the county on the use permit of state agencies "to see that noth. interpretations.
It issu'ed in 1%0.
ing is. overlooked in the way of P.ut " extravagant things were Phi! Iip Berry, Oakland lawyer safety."
said" about the " relative has-who represented the Sierra Club A " measured risk" is a price ards" of the plant, and the " tone jat the PUC hearings, told the of Progress. Mr. Grendon said, of the m,eeting was not to inform,
' group he finds strength in the and "we must not stifle progress but to mis-mform."
argument that the use permit was by not doing anything."
The meeting was sponsored by iUcgal, on grounds that PG&E Mr. Pesonen told the state off, the Northern California Assocla-a didn't submit complete plans and cial that he presented "a very tion to Preserve Bodega Head and specifications on application.
able case for a scry disabled sub-Harbor, the Bodega Bay Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Rosa "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 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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