ML20065P084
| ML20065P084 | |
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| Site: | Pilgrim |
| Issue date: | 10/07/1990 |
| From: | Dukakis M MASSACHUSETTS, COMMONWEALTH OF |
| To: | Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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4 October 7, 1990 The Honorable Kenneth Carr Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission Dear Chairman Carr I have enclosed'a copy cf we Southeastern Massachusetts Health Study which was released today by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The study, which is the first of its kind in the nation, explored the relationship between-leukemia' incidence in 22 Massachusetts communities and potential for exposure to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant. The mr.jor findings weret 1.
Overall, individuals with the highest. potential for exposure to Pilgrim emissions (i.e.,- those who lived and/or worked the longest and closest to the plant) had-almost four times the risk
- of leukemia as compared with those having the lowest potential
=for exposure (i.e., those who live and/or worked the least-amount of time and farthest from the plant).
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No' apparent relationship with the plant was observed for cases diagnosed between 1984 and 1986..
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Among-those cases diagnased before-1984, a dose-response
. relationship was-observed in that the relative risk of leukemia increased as the potential for exposure to plant emissions also increased.
Based upon these findings, the state of Massachusetts is implementing changes. in our radiation monitoring program. - Two major initiatives will be undertaken.
The first-is to significantly intensify. radiological monitoring efforts.around Massachusetts nuclear power plants beginning with.the Pilgrim Plant by implementing a real-time (i.e., continuous) monitoring system.
This real-time monitoring system must include stack emission monitoring capability.- The second initiative is to establish-omissions based on dose limits at the fenceline of the plant. This 7
guidance is presently set at 25 millitem/ year by the EPA.
Massachusetts proposes a standard of 10 millirem / year.
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4 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should take steps to require of f aite radiological monitoring programs at each and every nuclear power plant in the country.
Further, the Massaphusetts study strongly favors adoption of the EPA recommended emission Atan ard for nuclear power plants.
Finally,considerationshouldb/gientoreplicatingthe methodology of the Massachusetts Departgen of Public Health Study at otner selected sites around the country'.
I would be happy to discuss this
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