ML20237E863
| ML20237E863 | |
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| Site: | 05000307, 05000308 |
| Issue date: | 11/16/1967 |
| From: | Harris J US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Ramey, Seaborg, Tape US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| FOIA-87-712 NUDOCS 8712290231 | |
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! Attc:: bed for your information is a public announeenant of tha czecution cf o contrcet with the Metropolitan Vater Diotrict c2 00ut ::rs California providing for Ccvernacnt participation-in a dual-purpoco d:cs1 tins and cloctric power project. It has the approval of the Assistant concral l W.or.Gcr. i i Uc plan to distribute %e announcement to @e news media Mandsy, Ecvesber 20, I fop 4 m M atg g3gg, l
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.;0E TO DII'0:10 KD Cani;.;i'U..u.;f.f: The cere:.lony referred to in the .fbilowin.
anncuacen2at will be held at 3:00 p.m. O T (12 noon P3T) .donday,.! avenue.r 20, 19v7, at the :1cwporter Inn,.bwport 32ach, California.
Tr.e .itcaic "dicrgy Commiccion and the Gri' ice of Caline Water vf tl.e
.b_,_rt:_..; of ,he It.terior tcday executed a contre.cL m the .. ; L 0.,v116a.. .
.mter L.c crict of Scutnera Califurr.1:_ prvvidit._ Jvr Cuv -r.. ..c.a 1..r;.ielp..- .
tica in the usrid' itr;ast dual-purpoco uecaltin,ar.: vluetric gvwer ;,rv-jact. It will alco be the first such cc:.= rcial plai.t to be nucleu fueleu.
"he contract wa: cisned by Dr. Olenn T. Scaboro , Chairm ci' thu 16toalc
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..:: the sate time, a separate contract wa: cigr.ed by the Listrict and the utilities which will participate in the project.
Se contracts were executed at the :;ewporter Inn, ;!vwport hach, Californic., fc11 cuing a luncheon atter.ded by local and state officials, and 1 ty U.'S. Government, Congressional, industry and utility officials associ- l 1
ated with the project.
In his remarks, Ir. Seaborg pointed to the significance of thin type j cf plant by saying: "Tdday's ceremony is much core than a begireing.
Already this project is a key element in extensive plans for additional uses cf desalting to ceet the water requirements of the future. Great '
interest has been shown in the potential of large-ccale desalting using nuclear enercy to change the character of the arid regions of the world, *
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.. =::ltin; is becomin; an important cct:ideration in the phns of =ny c * ;.* L C C . "
Ca2 proposed facility's two nucler.r er plants will senar.te 4. cut 1,il; 2;nwatts of electricity and supply s eam for a distill ; ion f_:.n:,
.h.; vill have the capacity initially to p=,iuce 50 million ;,allons of di:-
ti"ai water per' day and ulticately to pre,i: ice 150 tillion callons cf dis-ti"__21 v:.;;;r pa:t day. Cne nuclear stos: supply systea and turbir.a ;,ancr:.:Or
.. L is cug.:;C by the Los Anseles Dapartten; cf Water u ?cuer, ci tha ether vi2 ic cv .cd jointly hy the Southern CC' 'Ornia Edison Co. and the Sc.a Li ;; Oc L 21ectric Co.
l T;: Oictrict will build and own the decrai,ing plcnt, as ve11 as the 1
ic i.i and c trestle caucauay connecting it, t.o the mainlana.
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j te:=ical :.scistance to the Metropolitan Wc. er District c_.1 will obtc.in i ne; technolo.-ical data and information fcr use in the Interior's caline 1
w: .ar programs and the AIO's civilian nucles.: power pro 6rc . 7Ce A30 fi : :ial ascistance will not exceed $15,000,000, and the Interior cssistance will not exceed $57,200,000.
l "ne proposed offshore plant will produce enough fresh water to meet tic n:-eds of a city of 750,000 and will core than doubic the combined es,= city of all the debalting plants in the world today. FTnen the facility is ec pleted, it will represent an invest =est of about $500,000,000.
Che Atocic Enercy Cocsiscion received in Septe,6er an application
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frcs he Ics Angeles Department of Water & Power an'd a joint application 1 e
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fr= the Scuthern California Edison Co. and the San Dieso Gad & Electric Co. fcr pcrtits to construct the two nuclea reactors of the proposed (more)
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. I pswer .lant;. . Ecfor. .he AEC can r:.ake a actercint. tion on ::.:. app"ications, a pualic herin; nu:.*:c held.
T s nucia rea::=s vill be of the cc=.orcially av ' ' ' a li $t water-l cooled ani -coiaratei : n e. The applicants -c.re now evalu:. ing bids frc suppliers of the nucier steam supply cysta::ic. Further sc.fety and technical in'cr.r. tion will be r.i; .itted to the ICC after awards have bean cada for t;;c c jor nucle:.r cc:;,c:nonts. The prelitins.ry cafety anal;'si.s repert:
t'.at c acco panied both applications included only siting and e.nvircncental in:'orcation.
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