ML20234F462

Forwards Excerpt from Region V Monthly Rept on Bodega Bay Reactor

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Site:	05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date:	06/03/1964
From:	Low L US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Lowenstein R, Mann M, Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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A. W. Smith and 1. E. Engelken attended a public hearing held by -

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he hearing was held to act upon the resolution of Supervisor-4 J. Morrison which, if passed, would put San Francisco on record as opposing the Bodega reactor. H e seemittee heard six hours of

" expert testimony" by PG6E witnesses and witnesses fi ' the Worthern California Association to Preserve Bodega Esad and Etebor. At the conclusion of the hearing the committee voted to take the matter "under submission" to afford opportunity for the committee to study the great volums of technical testimony. He committee is not technically qualified but is seaposed of two business men and one attorney. Among those who testified for PG&E were L. E. McBoon, u

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Manager, Euclear Safety Engineering, APED, General Electric; and PG&E consultants Benioff, Mar 11 ave and Eeusner. De Association was represented by Pesonen; Dr. James Mcdonald, Senior Physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Univarsity of I

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D e " technical testimocy" of the Association experts is not WE maarly as impressive as their titles. Most of them are not Q3 ovea familiar with fundensatal design features of the reactor.

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acknowledged that the Bodega reactor would have suffered no damage if it had been located in Alaska during.the recent quake.

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Re also said there was ao evidence of horisontal displacement along the shaft fault. When asked by Supervisor Blake (obviously pro-Bodega) whether he didn't feel thr.t the AEC is the proper group to judge such a highly technical question, he replied that l

he didn't feel that "we should be ruled by people from afar".

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Dr. Mcdonald testified that local inversions and weak land breeses could result in serious contamination of San Francisco in the event of a major release but ande no attempt to explain how such a release could occur.

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The origin of Amendment 7 to the application was questioned at length by Supervisor McCarthy. When asked why PG&E emb-mitted the Avaad=aat PG&E counsel Morrisey stated that i

7044 had submitted it "at the sugigestisa" of a member of the AEC staff. Benioff later attempted to saarify Morrisey's answer by stating that, because USGS had suggested the possibility i

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