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BODEGA BAY ATOMIC PARK, UNIT NO. I c
At the ACRS Meeting on June 12-13, 1964, we should like to consider in detail the following questions, on which the statements that have been presented to P
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We wish to be sure we understand the specific methods to be used to analyze the ebility of structures to withstand earthquake oscillations.
c Some new features.of the analysis were introduced at our 55th meeting.
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Will the apphicant modify the frequency spectrum used (El Centro.1936) g 2.
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h e measures are proposed to assure that the reactor can be maintained h.
safely in a shutdown condition indefinitely if all vital lines to the E.
reactor building are severedi uh 4.
he is the degree of damage to the reactor building and the reactor to b
be expected from shear displacement along any line prossing the vesctor
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building shaft? This analysis should not assume a size of displacement, 7
he is desired is damage as a function of displacement. h e displace.
y ment leads to fracture of the concrete structure? What displacement would rupi:ure the containment? h e displacement would lead to rup-ture of the primary reactor system? It is vital that these judgements
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We should also like to be able to discuss with your consultants these ques-I tions and the answers of the applicant, as was the practice in previous
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the primary question we now face concerns the ability of the plant to with.
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The'Bodena Exn a.med along the Peninsula, is anticipat. servation, radiation and earth-1 ed
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Bodega Bay plant will put the As to conservation. Stroube h0H1 hgM
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President J o h n s o n was Co. is not blindly jumping into Other reasons, according to purchased. The rest _ will be asked yesterday to intervene the atomic energy field, despite Stroube, include the need for a developed for public use, in the controversy over con-the controversy over the new.
tremendous amount of cooling Radiation fears, he declared,
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struction of the atomic power power plant it is preparing to water to operate the plant, and are foundless. "That is under j plant at Bodega Head on the build at Bodega Bay.
. the fact that the site was private-continucus study and we know ly owned and therefore would not how it can be controUed and-
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conflict with any proposed state handled."
Xq Tom B. Caney, president ley Rotary Club atomic informa-or national projects or programs.
As to earthquake fear. Stroube of the California Democratic ti n specianst Hal Stroube out-Every possible precaution is asserted the gigantic pit and rock -
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, lined,the background leading to being taken in planning the plant, formation information now under
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tion in a letter to the Presi-Iplarun 8 of the Bodega Bay Two of three necessary licenses study by the AEC provides the project and the need for it, have already been granted for answer to that challenge.
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EARTHQUAKE FAl'LTS ciated with the development of The biggest test hole in the
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q council's 70.000 m e m b e r s atomic power since its inception world has been dug on the site-with earthquake faults. PG&E had "long been concerned a few years ago. The pmposed a 142-foot diameter shaft has has learned to live with them.
about the site,: w hie h lies
, Bodega Bay plant will not be the been dug to a depth of 73 feet be-None of the utility's power plants g gL above an earthquake fault.
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Iow sea level in order to permit have been effected by earth.
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unpopular matter to a vast Livermore, has been producing formations. Their findings, along said.
l'PG&E is a partner in the Nuclear
'd-number of people... and the electricity since October,1957, with plans for the plant, are now
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.O opposition has persisted to under study by the Atomic Ener. has not been unique, the Ro.
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, Power Group, whose Dresden gy Commission, which will soon tarians were told. Stroube said Nuclear Power Station near Chi-hold public hearings on safety that actually is eminating from a majo pohtical issue.
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a small group and pntterned by g.a "The matter of proceeding since 1960. The utility's nuclear H the AEC approves and grants what he called the "Six P's"-
r, ;.7 with construction now lies power unit at Humboldt Bay has the necessary third license, propaganda, pickets, protests.
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- before the Atomie Energy been producing 50,000 killowatts PG&E will start work on the placards, parades, petitions.
ey Commission which has long since August of last year, plant.
Stressing that PG&E estimatesi 1
been an a d vo e a t e of the ne PG&E also is a partner in PREPARATION it must triple the output of its' J
power' plant.
High Temperature Reactor De-Why an atomic energy plant? generating pawer by 1980,i
%e "We therefore are calling Wlopment Associates, whoae "Because both private. utilities Stroube concluded his remarks!
lP ant near Philadelphia has been and the government have spent with the warning the public must j upon you for a review and
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intervention in this issue'"
put in production this year.
tremendous amounts of money in become better informed on the; he wrote.
LOGICAL REASONg pMparing for just such type need and the efforts being made.
plants where they will be need-to meet it.
The Bodega Bay site was se-ed." Stroube asserted.
"A continued barage of illind i
'locted for severalreason,Stroube d He pointed out that with some formed, emotional or highly mo-told the Rotarians.
be- {4 17% miluon people in California tivated attacks can exert such "Logleal reasons. First, and 400,000 being added yearly, pressure on legislators, adminis-cause there are no large power t this state even now is unable to tors and utility companies that producing plants along the coast I produce the recuired energy. It they will be reluctant to support b etw e e n San Francisco and i has no coal and can supply but atgmic power development and Eureka and a tremendous popu!a !
one fourth of the pquired na-thus cubject themselves to har-tion explosion, similar to that tural gas, the rest teing unport-rassment," he said.
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i 3 poor state must develop a sup-situation developing very muchi plementary fuel through use of like the fanatical crusade car-the atom, he said, York ' against alternating ried on 75 years ago in New '
The controversy over the Bo-d__ma Bay project has been raised current."
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