ML20234B405

Comments Opposing Proposed Plant at Bodega Head Due to Location Near San Andreas Fault

ML20234B405
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Site:	05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date:	03/21/1963
From:	Wheelwright G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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It is unlikely that you will remember, but m'y wife and I were in your study l

group at the Atomic Energy seminar at Asilomar several years ago.' I am writing this as a private citizen, after considerable thought and some con-versation with my friend, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. It is a matter of some worry to myself and many others like me who live in California that the Atomic Energy Commission is apparently about to be asked to authorize an j

Atomic Electric Power Plant at Bodega Head. As private citizens in this area, we do, after all, pay the taxes and should have, we feel, a very j

definite say in something as fundamental as atomic radiation' entering our j

l lives; something we will undoubtedly live with for a long time to come.

I am aware, of course, that at some time in the foreseeable future, atomic -

power will be with us and also atomic radiation and the hazards such as they may be. I am sure that you know a great many contributing factors d(;.f that the public do not know, which may make this seem more immediate J.: :,j j

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sealed up, more will be created from now on, and it appears that thousands i

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more curies of such radiation will have to be eliminated from reactors and O[ller sources.

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that we should panic or say that such things should not have been begun.i..

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reactor, such has not been the case, I feeld Preparations were made and a site chosen which is ideally suited for scenic and conservation uses/ On l

application to the Sonoma supervisors, it was presented by the ppg? & E, gg,,,

as we hear it, that a power station using coal or oil was to be built.' It

' p,0 was not until after the use permit was granted that it became probabic it T. f would be atomic. The location is, as you know, near the San Andreas fault.

It obviously appears to the public that in the case of a serious quake, the JJ; stored waste from the interior of the reactor might leak dangerous iadio-l activityJ I do not mean by this that it would explode in the form of a bomb, but that gases would leak out and drift downwind over an area of agriculture

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and great population density.' I am aware that atomic plants have been y

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out some gans and waste over the nearby Sonoma farms. To say the least,.

p it would appear that.the method of development to date smacks of putting

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part of wisdom to have the facts brought out clearly? Thus, people with no

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I trust you will use your good offices to see that the proposed atomic reactor at Bodega Head is not authorized.T e

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