ML19326B215
| ML19326B215 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 03/13/1971 |
| From: | Rogers L US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Jackie Cook US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 8003061026 | |
| Download: ML19326B215 (2) | |
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20545 n.,,,,, y, March 13,1971 NOTE TO JEANNE COOK The following am suggested msponses to those portions of the attached letter that you have marked RPS.
The question mgarding exposums to pregnant women:
No person living near the site boundary of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant will incur an exposure anywhere near 1 1/2 rems of radiation. The incmase in radiation exposums to persons living at the plant boundary as a result of mleases of radioactivity in effluents from the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant am expected to be less than 0.001 rem (1 millirem) per year. This value is about 1500 times smaller than 1 1/2 rums mentioned in your letter. One millirem per year is also about 1/100 of the radiation exposure that you will receive in a year from the natural background radiation due to cosmic radiation, natural radioactivity in soil, rocks, and building materials, and radioactivity in the body. This amount of exposum will not change in any detectable way the chances that a child will have cancer.
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i Jeanne Cook March 13, 1971 The question concerning Dr. Sternglass and gaseous emissions:
The principal radioactive gas that will be emitted in very small quantities from the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant is krypton-85. The gas, krypton-85, does not enter the human food chain in quantities that am of any significance frorn a health standpoint. Even if all of the vegetables that
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site, the radiation exposum to the individual would be less than one-billionth of a millirem. This exposure is totally unimportant when it is conpared to the radiation exposure of about 100 millirems per year that everyone in the United States mceives fmm natural background radiation.
Lester Rogers, Director Division of Radiological and Environmental Protection I
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