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that there was so much turbiae damage in the Northeast and the turbines now are very large, They are building them at one-rmilhon
kilowatts. This put a real serious crimp inte the areca of this power
supply; they had so much turbine ane generates bearing trouble that
a fairly large percentage «f the generators bad to be repaired,
TAYLOR:
out,
That was just because avery sensitive thing vas knocked
BRISENBUD:
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;
Yes.
DUNHAM: There was a hurry to get it back but attee one of these
deals, what's an hour or two extra’
FISENBUD:
MILLER:
Yes,
& has been shown that when the
lapane ve thought they
were threatened by fallout they became panicky, whereas in Palomares,
where fallout really occurred, the Spariards did not bezome panicky.
What would be the likely situation,
say,
if a simular thing happened
in Berkeley and fallout fell on the campus? Would the pecple there
be more Spanish or more Japanese in their reaction”
WARREN:
Civelans would be abandoned except inside the univer-
DUNHAM:
You can't jump frora an alpha situation where Wright,
sity building!
[Laughter]
in all good conscience, could reassure themthat here wasn't any important problem, toa situation where you have highly radioactive,
penetrating fission product radiation which does require that you put
something between you and at.
one tothe other.
[im not sure that you can jump trom
But your question is still a valid one,
HELMEK:
[-sould say jump from one
DUNHAM:
Yes.
to the other.
How would the people react”
MILLER: What would happen’ Would Governor Reagan go on the
radio and reassure the Berkeley students” [faughter] Is there a
plan of action to reassure the people siiould fallout occur in California’
WARREN: Yes, a very extensive plan was worked out statewide
many years ago, but I think the best-controlled plan was the radioloxi-
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