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Dear members and friends:

	As most of you recall, the Stanford chapter of SENSE (Scientists
for Enlightenment on Nuclear Sources of Energy) got started last
Spring in connection with a visit by Professor Hans Bethe.  The motive
for its formation was fear that the anti-nuclear movement would succeed.
We regard nuclear energy as cheap enough and safe enough for the
country to rely on it as a major source over the next decades.

	Over the summer SENSE was dormant, and now it is coming to life
again with our first public meeting scheduled for Wednesday, November 12
in room 270 Tresidder.
The purpose of the meeting is to announce ourselves to the Stanford
community and so that the organization can be properly formed.
At present Professors Tom Connolly and Felix Bloch are co-chairmen,
Russell Taylor is secretary, and John McCarthy is writing this letter.

	The program of the meeting will include three talks - one on
a technical issue namely radioactive waste disposal, one on America's
energy requirements, and one on the legal consequences of the California
initiative restricting nuclear energy.

America's Energy Requirements - Richard Redmun, Electric Power Research
Institute, Palo Alto

Disposal of Radioactive Waste - Professor Thomas Connolly, Stanford

Legal Consequences of the California Initiative - Terry Trumbull, attorney,
General Electric Company, San Jose.

	Besides the talks, we will sign up members and start a mailing
list.

	There will be a Dutch treat dinner at the Stanford Faculty Club
at 6pm before the meeting.  The future activities of SENSE will be
discussed, and perhaps it may be agreed what proposals to make at
the meeting, but no formal decisions will be made.  These will be reserved
for the meeting itself.

	It has been proposed that SENSE orient its activities primarily to
the Bay Area technical community in order to try to mobilize that
community's opposition to the initiative.  In that connection it has
also been suggested that SENSE organize a one or two day technical
symposium on the issues of nuclear energy and publicize it through the
Bay Area chapters of the technical societies.  The point is that
P.E.P. (People for an Energy Policy) is already active and oriented to
the general public.  In any case, SENSE has the obligation to treat the
other controversial technical issues in presentations at Stanford.

	Enclosed is a copy of the poster announcing the meeting.

					John McCarthy (meeting organizer)


					Russell Taylor (secretary pro tem)