ML20235A971

Protests Seaborg Giving Permission to PG&E to Use Article, I Would Live Next Door to Atom Printed in PG&E Progress for Advertising

ML20235A971
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Site:	05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date:	01/18/1964
From:	Klapproth T AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Dear Dr. Seabor6:

I was deeply disturbed to seeLand read this month's issue ~

of the Pacific Gas and Electric C'ompany 's "P.G'. and E. Progress."' *l Obviously the P.G'. and E. imust have had your permission to print "I Would Live Next Poor 7o The Atom."' That you 6 ave this permission seems to me incomprQ: ens At/le. 3 -

T will nov dispute yot.r statements about nuclear power reactors;  ;

I will not question your conclu tions in rakird to their use; I D7 resent that you allowed this article to be ured as advertising in a 2.G'. and E. house or6an. For that in what it is: Advertising.

During this pact year--as opposition to the Bode 6c. Head sific of the P.G. and E. 's proposed atomic reactoW pew and threatened--this same ,

house or6an contaimd article after prticlo tellin6 its readers how safe,.Sood, economical, etcetera, this plant would be. It seeen they have now capped their efforts ' by printing your statements . How many readers must now think that the Atomic Ener6y C~ommission has r,,1ven a blanket endorsement to this or spy further atomic energy plants ,

built by this company?

Had you used any othcr publication--and of . course you could have done so--to present these views, I wou3d have seen it as right and proper. At least it would have given a ceablance of impartiality to the article. ,

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I believe as you do, that W, must have and 939 P.tomic ener67 and that this can be done effectiqtny und safely. But this does not mean that any plant PT. and E. buildp is automatically for the public Good. Anyone nho sees your statettents ani who knows about the present lit 1 at$6n 6 be' fore the'Chlifornia State Supreme Court concernin6 Bodoga Nabd would hardly fel that the Atomic Energy ,

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