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Requests Info on long-term Effects of Low Level Radiation
	ML20008D884
Person / Time
Site:	Crane
Issue date:	03/24/1980
From:	Bird W; AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	; NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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17104 To '.lhom It May Concern:

I wish I had asked the gentleman's name who I talked to at approximately 9:30AM last Saturday morning.

I a@.ed questions about that possible meltdown last March at 3MI and the release

. of 53ioco ce of gas during the next 60 days. (I guess I' d better.say possibly) 4;

.I also said that if there is anything I can do to help the public change its mind about radiation, etc. I ammore than willing to do it.

I.have been teaching.a course over the-years called Facts and Fallacies of Radiation.

Williamsport's channel 8 televised it two years ago when I was teaching in that city for a day.

I contaminate candy tars with Uyrnal' Nitrate-and de-contaminate them and eat then. 'I " shoot" beta and gamma rays through water and drink that.

I use var-ious half-thicknesses to let my class hear the reduct'.n in sound at the radiat-

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-It is a fast moving 45 to 60 minute class and -answers virtually every-quest on

a person may ask about: radiation.

There is one that I can' t answer and that

~ involves the long term affects of low level radiation.

-I'have been exposed to. low level radiation since 1955 when I began using the 1

60f when the AEC licensed me.to handle Co3 alt 60.

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.Nitrateland in the eaily'that I respect radiation highly but do not fear it.*'

I ' told.you on the _ phone; l

In closing if there is anything I can do to help the NRC in anyway please-let me know.

I<hava a few emergency days at school and I would sure'like to see 3MI up close 'sometime.

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