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Forwards K Weimann Comments on Venting Krypton from Reactor Bldg
ML20037B004
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Issue date: 04/22/1980
From: Schulze R
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To: Kammerer C
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I RfCl4ARD T. SCHULZE WJ.YS AND MEANS sm bevacy. Pswevowena ccM MITTEE O

Congressof tfje%htitchhtates house of Representatibes = 8tlasfyington, D.C.

20515 April 22, 1980 Mr. Carlton Kammerer Director, Cong. Affairs huclear Regulatory Commission 1717 h Street, h.h.

hashington, L.C.

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Dear Mr. haltmerer :

Enclose 6 please find a copy of correspondence which is sent for your consideration.

It will be greatly appreciated if you would review the details involved in this matter and advise me of your findings.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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20515 Congressnan Richard Schu]:c, This letter concerns the intension of the r.2.0. to iE$ ease 57,00y.00

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curies of Erypton-85 from the inner atnesphere of a reactor at 3 *111e-Island.

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that no " safe" level of raiiation has hatn ertatlished.-

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function was that of Supervisor of Quality C.ontrol of the Rare Gas Oiviniva>

of Air Reduction. Our group purified the rare gates for industrial uses.-

Erypton-E5 is a beta radiation enitter uhich docs' not decay for 100 years. Krypton-95 is fct and water soluble and thersfore a definite potential danger as a centa.ir;Lnt of the envirorcent. All.consu.able 1

products, dairy, meat and other farn products produced in'the surrounding Harrisburg area, would be contaninated upon the venting of this radioactive gas into the atnesphere, not to nention the air the inhabitants of those areas would have to Freathe.

The dancer of low level radiation has been anply documented in towns and farns located in Colorado and Utah, which were within 60 -100 niles of

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'Y ition of fission of uranium-235. If the radioactive gases are allowed to enter the j

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