ML20135B935

Discusses Potassium Iodide

ML20135B935
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Issue date:	01/17/1990
From:	Crane P NRC
To:	Thompson H NRC
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Hugh L. Thompson, Jr.

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SUBJECT:

POTASSIUM IODIDE DPO As you consider the DPO panel's report, you should be aware of.the attached letter from the American Thyroid

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Apparently they feel strongly enough about the significance of the. issue to have sent the letter to i

Louisiana. New York. Baltimore, and D.C. for the four signatures.

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Hugh --

Just a followup point to our KI discussion of 2

yesterday.

NUREG-0654, the 1980 document establishing the j

criteria for emergency plans, was based on NUREG-0396,

" Planning Basis for the Development of State and Local Government Radiological Emergency Response Plans in Support 4

of Light Water Nuclear-Power Plants" (November 1978).

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' document considered and rejected a cost-benefit approach to emergency planning, by which the cost of emergency planning measures would be balanced against the health effects i

prevented.

(I didn't come across this fact until after we talked or I would have mentioned it.)

So what is the rationale for applying to this single 1

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