ML20234B253

Comments on Bodega Bay Atomic Park Preliminary Hazards Summary Rept,In Response to 630131 Request.Seismological Aspects of Site Are Serious,But Can Be Designed for

ML20234B253
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Site:	05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date:	02/28/1963
From:	Belter W US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Bryan R US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Memorandum pi To

Robert H. Bryan, Chief.

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February 28,1%3 Research & Power Reactor Safety Branch, M S /t FROM : Walter G. Be ter, Chief Environmental & Sanitary Engineering Branch, RD

SUBJECT:

C0h2MTS ON BODEA BAY A10MIC. PARK PRELIMINARY HAZARDS

SUMMARY

REPORT (DOCKEI HO. 50-205).

RD:DNS:AC:WGB Reference is made to your memorandum of January 31, 1963, to this Division requesting comments on the application by.

Pacific' qas. & Electric Company - Docket 'No. 50-205, to

+us construct and operate a nuclear reactor at Bodega Bay, California. Our comments and reactions to the report are su::nnarized in the following paragraphs.

Se description of the hydrology of the site is rather brief but appears ad6quate' considering' the fact that the plant is to be located on the ocean.

Se~ geologic work appears sound.

Seismic aspects of the site are discussed in detail by' two of the foremost authorities'in the United States (Tocher'and Housner).

Appendix V states that the site is within about a mile of the so.w San Andreas fault. Se geologic map in Appendix IV indicates that the site is only 1,000 to 1500 feet fran the margin of

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the fault zone. Although this difference in distance probably is not significant to Housner's analysis, it is a discrepancy.

l More detailed data from Dames and Moore's seismic survey (Appendix V, Figures 1 and 2), particularly the ' shot-hole and core-hole data, should have been included as part of this' report. Bis information could be used to interpret -

ground water conditions as indicated in Section V, Par. F-2.

Be site presents no particular hydrologic problems, inasmuch as surface drains 6e vill be engineered to drain into catchments that can be pu:nped into the liquid vaste handling system 1 (p. V-10, Par. F-1).

Seismological' aspects of the site are serious, but ' appear to have been investigated thoroughly and i

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