ML19309E363
| ML19309E363 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/31/1980 |
| From: | NRC - TMI-2 OPERATIONS/SUPPORT TASK FORCE, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| ML19309E354 | List: |
| References | |
| NUREG-0662, NUREG-0662-ADD, NUREG-0662-ADD01, NUREG-662, NUREG-662-ADD, NUREG-662-ADD1, NUDOCS 8004210351 | |
| Download: ML19309E363 (4) | |
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Addendum 1 Environmental Assessment for Decontamination of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Reactor Building Atmosphere Addendum 1 Draft NRC Staff Report For Public Comment TMl Support Staff u ea Reactor Regulation U S Nuclear Regulatory
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Table of Contents Eage Appendix B - Ongoing Psychological Stress Studies B-1 1
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B-1 Appendix B Ongoing Psychological Stress Studies In Section 1 of its " Environmental Assessment for Decontamination of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Reactor Building Atmosphere" (NUREG-0662), the staff alluded to the concern of assessing psychological stress resulting from the proposed action.
The staff is aware in a general way of the following studies that attempt to measure mental health effects:
a survey focusing on the effects of stress from the accident upon all employees of Central Pennsylvania Blue Shield; a " mental health assessment study" conducted at Hershey Medical Center involving persons who had been subjected to similar testing prior to the accident; a telephone survey conducted at Franklin and Marshall College which examined, among other things, respondents " feelings" following the accident:
an open-ended interview study conducted at Dickinson College and exploring, among other things, feelings and reactions of subjects; a study jointly spon-sored by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station which surveys attitudes toward the risk of nuclear station accidents; a newspaper (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal) telephone poll on public perception of the accident; a study directed by Mr. Galstein of Pennsylvania State University-Capitol Campus specifically seeking to study the possible social psychological impacts of the i
accident on selected sub populations; a study by the Pennsylvania Office of F
State Planning and Development on the effects of the accident upon such enterprises as tourism, residential and commercial activities, and local government; a study by a Hershey Medical Center physician who is also school t--
B-2 health consultant for the Lower Dauphin School District which surveys, among other things, the " attitudes, worries and concerns" of teachers, students, and parents; a survey of the perceived health concerns of persons using the Well Child and Family Clinic of, among other things, attitudes toward nuclear power and the reopening of TMI; a twenty year study by the Pennsylvania Department of Health which will monitor all persons within a five-mile radius of the plant for, among other things, stress-related disorders; a Federally funded pregnancy outcome study examining, among other things, the emotional impact of the accident; a telephone survey funded in part by EPRI and conducted by persons at the Pennsylvania Department of Health & Hershey Medical Center which will consider, among other things, stress-related health problems and
" coping strategies"; a study, also funded by EPRI, considering utilization of health care facilities, including mental health facilities; a study conducted out of the Western Psychiatric Institute of the University of Pittsburgh which will survey, among other things, mental inpatients and outpatients and will use as a control population persons living near a different reactor site.
Under contract to NRC, one such study has included some survey examination of these issues:
"Three Mile Island Telephone Survey, Preliminary Report on Procedures and Findings," September 24, 1979, prepared by Mountain West Research, Inc. and Social Impact Research Inc. as a part of NRC Contract 04-78-192, NUREG/CR-1093 (available for purchase from the G.P.O. Sales Program, Division of Technical.Information and Document Control, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555).