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Opposes Util Plan to Put Nuclear Plant in Bodega Head,Ca. Concern of Constructing Plant on Earthquake Fault Expressed
ML20239A489
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 08/28/1963
From: Hartzell A
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To: Seaborg G
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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1456 Campu,s Drive Be gg]rkeley{ 8, Calif plant denied. on Bodega Head in CalifoI maintain the atte:npt b rnia acific Gas & andElectric Co to put a nuclear 3 is ill advised req ue.

of California, Department 'of NatAccording e ook of the. st the permission to be " Geolog power San Andreas fault goes smack db on page 153 it describes shift a ural Resources,SF Bay counties, Bulletin of 16' and 21' respectively s in right the earththru the middle of Bodega,HDivision , the is

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no indication would take utilize any of the feature PG&E did not own any property is ance from south of west. There iscooling e seen water in the out Sebastopol of the bay Times and thn the area. T s offered by the protected harbat the d plant PG&E could usemuch shore that clearisof both the 800 milo length of Cischarge it into the Nuevo,between Bodega Head.either Bolinas of which Bay would and Drake's be closeof Estero u population and ea i Guideboot says " people r to the load conter (San Franci,.

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..The partially inundated Bolincutare rocks of all strengths lar,ger than one's headvertical-t 1

zone northwest of San Francis on the very edge of the coas-Tomales faultBay is Bey trench y them. astride

. ...Such th, and whole Bodega Head complex one of could them lose their station batteries zone; without the pro. The plan is to locate the San An *.

e plant get up and waltz around durinper solid rock foundati and blow the plant essky call power highoptrate over the floor, and without their disconnect g a tremor. They could swit h 1 phase line along Doran Park t any capability to p

ACROSS THE FAULT! . Another How silly thing, they are planning ,

e systemtcould back phase to phase shorts, o the can PG&E mainland get? Withsouth thereand the the westofoeast the run sidtheir tsidethree of the fault . >

aw-ing the overhead wires own of Bodega RIGHT will rain all over the landscap will be blinding flashes, e of the fault gee-ing ths park. Then the poor di willglobul esswing together for Oakland will havespatcher thee,nast plus killing people unfort in the penthouse ato of molten copper a j

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frem, the destruction fault" Santa Rosa in Santa is 20 mi. Rosa airline from wasBodega pecular Head on decount of the PG&E the accident of h atmile Arcofrom the western edge seems sort of feeble The proposal by spread And this asmy'far bigaway protest: as, Boise. Boise is 150 miles away. Idaho in 19 .

Head; anyone who has watched the smoke comidg out of the stacks fI or the past decade of the Iuba Erector in Eneryville and the Pittsburg Paint companies i .'

knows that the prevailing wind in this area is mostly n Berkeley  ;

loses the containment. envelope there is a ever e company strong possibi '

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