ML19322D497
| ML19322D497 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/18/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Kennedy R NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| Download: ML19322D497 (2) | |
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h JMi1: 390 MEHORANDUM FOR: Comissioner Kennedy FRON:
Harold R. Denton, Director Of fice of Huclea'r Reactor Regulation Txecutive Director for Operatiens (sig:ied) r. A..am THRU:
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- i. STATE CABLE - TOKYO 22423 (Decemoer 26, 1979)
REFERENCES:
(1) Metropolitan Edison Company, Radiological Environmental Monitoring Report, 1977 Annual Report.
(2) Hetropolitan Edison Company, Radiological Environmental Monitoring Report, 1978 Annual Report.
This in in response to your letter to Lee V. Gossick, cateo January 3, 1980, concerning fission procucts in the mua sa@le from the Susquehanna River near the Three Mile Island Station.
The State Cable, Tokyo 22423, dated December 26, 1979, reported that Dr. Noouya Ogino had announced the oiscoven of cesium-134 in mud samples taken on October 27, 1979, from areas adjacent to the Three Mile Islanc site. Cesium-134 concentrations of 105 and 95 picocuries per kilogram of nud were measurec.
Cesium-134 is a fission product with a half-life of 2.06 years. The isotope is introduceo into the environment from a variety of sources, including weapons testing fallout and routine power reactor liquid discharges. Sediment concentrations of cesium-134 in the huncrecs of picocuries per kilogram are consicered insignificant from the standpoint of public health and safety or environmental impact.
References 1 and 2 report the results of the Three Mile Islanc environ-mental sagling program for the years 1977 and 1978. A review of these reports, whicn are available in tne public document room, indicate cesium-134 concentrations in sediment samples were found prior to the
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