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Mr. Studds. I am informed we have one final witness, a gentle- 

 man who has apparently requested an opportunity to testify and 

 has come all the way from California, Mr. Conrad Golich. 



We will be pleased to receive your testimony for the record, Mr. 

 Golich. As I understand it, the staff has told you you may have 5 

 minutes. They're yours. 



STATEMENT OF CONRAD F. GOLICH, CONSULTANT TO PROJECT 

 TEKTITE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. 



Mr. Golich. Thank you. 



I have presented a rather lengthy total statement here, but I will 

 read only a short, three-page statement here to the committee and 

 I will leave the reading of the rest of the material to you at a later 

 time. 



Mr. Studds. Very good. I appreciate that. 



[The following was received for the record:] 



Prepared Statement of Conard F. Gouch; Consultant to Project Tektite 



introduction 



I am C!onrad F. Golich, a private consultant on radioactive waste management to 

 Project Tektite, a San Francisco, California based non-profit educational and re- 

 search organization concerned with the oceans. My technical background includes a 

 bachelors degree in mechanical engineering and graduate work in industrial design 

 from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. I have approximately 

 eight years experience as a systems engineer and technical writer for corporations 

 in the aerospace industry on projects such as the Titan missile, the Agena satellite, 

 nuclear submarine communications, and hydraulics for nuclear power plants. 



I have four years of experience involving the sujbect of radioactive waste manage- 

 ment as a result of studying the Farallon Island radioactive waste dump site off the 

 coast of San Francisco and adjacent to my home town on the coast of Marin County 

 north of the city. Among other activities, I have testified in San Francisco at 

 congressional hearings in 1976 and 1980 by the Subcommittee on Environment, 

 Energy, and Natural Resources of the Committee on Government Operations, at 

 hearings by the Federal Interagency Review Group on Nuclear Waste Management 

 in 1978, and at the hearings held in this year by the Federal Radiation Council. 



PROBLEM 



Radioactive Waste management focuses on disposal methods in the Earth, space, 

 and the oceans, and these hearings address themselves to the subject of ocean 

 dumping of low and high level wastes in past, present, and future. Disposal methods 

 follow the old approach of dispersion, which has now been replaced by the concept 

 of concept of containment. Containment must also include retrievability to assure 

 maximum safety for the entire planet. 



It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no "safe" place to dump any of the 

 toxic wastes produced by our technological society. Dumping anywhere has to be 

 cleaned up later, and only creates more contaminated waste to be dumped some- 

 where else. Radioactive wastes can not be cleaned up by dumping them somewhere 

 else where they will poison more of the environment. We must invent a method of 

 neutralizing and transmuting and recycling all toxic wastes, especially radioactive 

 ones which remain deadly for thousands of years. In the meantime, we must safely 

 contain them so that they can be retrieved later when we have agreement on a 

 correct long-term solution. Therefore, I will present a proposal for a safe, retriev- 

 able, containment system that will buy us the time to design and implement a 

 genuine solution to this crucial global problem. 



SOLUTION 



Project Tektite has received a proposal from the Marine Resources Company in 

 Austin, Texas for a containment system that could be applicable to radioactive 

 wastes already dumped onto the ocean floor, and that might provide a retrievable 

 containment system for temporary storage in the ocean. This is particularly impor- 

 tant in view of continued dumping around the globe, such as in the North Atlantic, 

 and intentions by this country to dump high-level radioactive wastes in the ocean 

 off Hawaii or Guam or elsewhere, and the intention by Japan to dump them in the 

 ocean near there next year. 



