Word: bodega
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nuclear ambitions are, in fact, involving the company in the bitterest controversy in its 111-year history. It has already laid the foundations for a site on which to build a big reactor at Bodega Bay, a desolate crag 50 miles north of San Francisco. Because Bodega Bay is only 1,000 ft. from the San Andreas fault-the shifting rock formation that triggered San Francisco's 1906 earthquake-many Californians strongly oppose the plan, fearing that a quake-damaged reactor might spill fallout over the neighborhood area. Whether P.G. & E. can go ahead with its plans depends...
Nuclear or Else. Should P.G. & E.'s plans at Bodega Bay be frustrated, Gerdes nonetheless intends to build other reactors elsewhere. He has little choice but to go nuclear. California lacks the coal and natural gas with which to produce inexpensive electricity, and Gerdes must thus develop P.G. & E.'s nuclear capability or face the possibility that the company in a few years may be unable to meet the state's growing electrical demands. It might then be forced to raise prices-now below the national average-in order to build more conventional power plants. President Gerdes...
...Last week Niagara Mohawk Power announced that it will build a 500,000-kw. plant in upstate New York for $100 million. New York City's Consolidated Edison plans a 1,000,000-kw. plant in Queens. Among others: > Pacific Gas & Electric's on Bodega Head, Calif. (325,000 kw.), due for 1966 completion at a $61 million cost...
Human Reactions. Now that cold costs are coming under control, the industry must wrestle with human apprehensions over safety. Northern Californians have protested that P. G. & E.'s Bodega Head site is too near the San Andreas fault, whose shift caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Thick shields and other safety devices have reduced some fears but raise the price of atomic power...
...million-kw. reactor would produce heat cheaply enough for the sort of seawater distillery Physicist Hammond would like to use. But no such reactor has ever been built or seriously contemplated. The biggest one under construction in the U.S., at Bodega Bay north of San Francisco, will generate slightly more than 1,000,000 kw. of heat. For producing electric power, says Hammond, there is no present need for anything larger. But he is sure that the monsters he has in mind can be constructed without trouble. A 25 million-kw. distilling plant would suck in a river...