ML20128C837

Expresses Gratitude of Transmitting from D Klassen & Forwards Comments

ML20128C837
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	11/09/1970
From:	Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Nelsen A HOUSE OF REP.
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NUDOCS 9212040542
Download: ML20128C837 (3)

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Docket No. 50-263 p g Honorable Ancher Nelsen llouse of Representatives Dear Mr. Nelsent Thank you for you: letter of Septernber 22, 1970, transmitting a letter dated September 10, 1970, from Mrs. Daniel Klassen of Mankato, Minnesota. I am enclosing staff cosaments'in response to concerns expressed. by Mrs. Klassen.

e If.I can provide any further information, please let me know.

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i STAFF 00mENTS IN RESPONSE 101.ETTER FROH I

) MRS. DANIEL KLASSEN, HANKATO, MINNESOTA l

One of Mrs. Klassen's questions was '%y is the AEC responsible for promot-

ing and regulating stamic power"?

J During late 1969 and early 1970 the Congressional Joint Cosesittee on Atomic i Energy conducted pelic hearings on the environmental effects of producing electric power. I an enelesing Part 1 of these hearings, and I would particulatly call Hre. Klassen's attention to Cossaissiocer James T. Ramey's testimony on pages 111-113 and 136-137 concerning AEC's role in promoting j and regulating the uses of atomic power.

i J Hrs. Klassan also asked 'Wy can't a state pass laws for stiffer regulations on nucisar power plants"? . I an enclosing a copy of testimony by Commissioner Ramey before the Pennsylvania State Senate Select Consittee investigating the effects of nuclear power plants on the environannt. In his testimony, Cossaissioner Ramey discusses the role of states in regulat-s ing nuclear power. In addition, with respect to the authority of the State i

i of Minnesota to establish more restrictive standards regarding releases of radioactivity from nuclear power plants licensed by the AEC, this matter is

now in litigation before the U. S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1

Third Division.

Regarding radiation from nuclear power plants, the AEC limits on radioactiv-i ity permitted in nuclear power reactor water effluents leaving a plant site, i prior to dilution in a stream or other body of water, are such that a mesber i of the public could use the affluent as a source of drinking water through--

l out his lifetime without exceeding the FRC radiation protection guides for ,

an individual in the population. Concentrations in the effluents are, of course, further reduced by dilution in the body of water into which they are diacharged.

Limita on rates of releases of radioactive games are based on a conservative calculation which - at the point of highest radiation level averaged over a year, on or naar the site boundary - would result in an exposure to an indi-l vidual equal to the FRC radiation protection guide, if he remains on or near l the site boundary for the entire year.

Additional background information on the AEC's regulatory program as related to the control of releases of radioactivity in affluents from nuclear facil-

' ties is included in the enclosed print of Part 1 of the JCAE hearings.

3 Your attention is called especially to Commissioner Theos J. Thompson's j testimony on pages 175 through 194, commissioner Clarence E. Larson's testi-mony on pages 238 through- 276, and the testimony of Dr. Paul Tompkins, s

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• Executive Director of the Federal Radiation Council, on Pages 391 through 415 of the print. This testimony discusses in detail sources of radioactive effluents from a nuclear power plant and how these effluents are processed, the bases for radiation protection standards, how these standards arv

) applied as limits on normal releases of small quantities of radioactive estat'ial, the results of environmental monitoring programs around nuclear power plants, and environmental research programs on the effects of radia-tion that are carried out by the AEC.

. s Enclosures :

' 1. Part 1, JCAR llaarings

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Sir 4 The attached communication.

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- Please investigate the statements i contained therein and forward me the necessary information for re-o v.

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