ML19323C174
| ML19323C174 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/03/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Paquette J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8005150101 | |
| Download: ML19323C174 (2) | |
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i Ms. Heather Ann Fitzgerald 2108 Cedar Run Drive Camp Hill, PA 17011
Dear Heather,
I am writing in response to your letter to President Carter concerning the accident.at 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 wo.rkload, which has prevented me from responding to you as promptly as I would have liked to.
The United States has built and operated nuclear reactors since 1942; radio-activity has been studied in the United States and other countries since the i
late 1800s. The events that led to the March 28, 1979 accident at Three Mile Island did not result because of a lack of knowledge about nuclear energy, but were due to a combination of equipment problems and human errors. The design and engineering of the containment and auxiliary buildings kept most of the radioactivity from being released to the environment.
A team of investigators from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Environ-mental Protection Agency, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare calculated the doses to the people living within 50 miles of the Three Mile Island site and estimated the number of new cancers that would result from the exposure to the radioactivity that leaked out of the plant. The team published their work in a report entitled, " Population Dose and Health Impact of.the ~
Accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station" (NUREG-0558). They con-cluded that the offsite collective dose associated with radioactive material released from March 28, 1979, to April 7, 1979, represents minimal risks (that is, a very small number of additional health effects to the offsite population).
Your ability to bear healthy children should not be affected. Enclosed for your informatien is a summary of NUREG-0558.
l All radioactive waste material will be managed so as to keep env2.ronmental radioactivity within limits specified by the regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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- c... Currently spent fuel rods from reactors are stored at interim storage facili-ties. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews the facilities in order to assure that the design provides safe methods for this interim storage. The facilities are required to monitor the environment in order to detect any small releases of radionuclides from their areas of containment. Various methods and locations for permanent storage of high-level radioactive wastes are being studied. When the plans for permanent disposal have been approved, wastes will be stored at the permanent sites.
I hope this information will be useful to you.
Sincerely, A
Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Encl: Summary of NUREG-0558
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