ML19308B628
| ML19308B628 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 12/31/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Giegelman D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8001160495 | |
| Download: ML19308B628 (3) | |
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.l DEC 31 19'79 Mr. David Ciegalman 39 Woodbridge Avenue, Unit 4 Metuchen, NJ 08340
Dear Mr. Ciegelman,
I am writing in response to your postcard of April 11, 1979 to President Carter concerning the wildlife in the area arcund Three Mile Island.
I regret that this answer to your letter has been delayed. The accident and its consequences have created a substantial increase in the agency's workload, which has prevented me from responding to you as promptly as I would have liked to.
The very small dose of radiation that was received by people in the area came from radioactive gases that escaped from the auxiliary building. The average dose of radioactivity received by the population within 50 miles of Three Mile Island was approximately 4 =1111reas. The =mvit=== exposure to any individual was less than 100 millirens, which is less than the yearly dose each person receives as a result of natural background radiation.
Doses at these levels result in less than one health effect over the life-time of all people in this area. Natural background radiation received by people in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area is approximately 125 =4111rema per year. To put these doses into perspectivs, it should be noted that a traveler flying round trip in a jet between New York City and Los Angeles receives 5 =411 tress from cosmic rays in the natural background. The effects upon the wildlife of the area are expected to be minimal as well.
I sus enclosing a summary of a report that may be of interest to you.
Sincerely,
/s Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Rasctor Regulation Enc 1: Summaary of NUREG-0558 Rn 4R5 1
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