ML20207C864
| ML20207C864 | |
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| Issue date: | 05/18/1999 |
| From: | Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Lederberg J ROCKEFELLER UNIV., NEW YORK, NY |
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Dear Professor Lederberg:
Thank you for your letter of March 22,1999, and your kind remarks about my return to academic life.
Your meeting with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) on March 18,1970, apparently was not a formal Commission meeting and, therefore, we have no minutes. We have located a brief discussion of the meeting in the diary of Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg. Dr. Seaborg kept a detailed diary of his activities as AEC chairman, and I have enclosed a copy of the page that summarizes your meeting with the Commissioners.
You might wish to consult a book written by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) histonan, J. Samuel Walker, which includes two chapters on the radiation controversy during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The book, Containina the Atom: Nuclear Reaulation in a Chanoina Environment. 1963-1971 (University of California Press,1992), briefly discusses your role in the formulation of design objectives for radiation emissions from nuclear power plants that the AEC issued in 1971.
If you have further questions of a historical nature, you can contact Dr. Walker directly by mail in the NRC Office of the Secretary, by email at isw@nrc.aov. or by phone at 301-415-1965.
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- Mednesday, March 18, 1970 - D.C.
Holifield, Ed Bauser and Jim Graham of the JCAE.F ongressman Chet was to discuss the changes in our revisions to 10 CFR Parts 20 and have made in order to try to accommodate the desires of Holifield which we ACRS.
We went over the wording and some minor and acceptable t
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suggested; thus, at long last, we achieved reasonable agreemen es were issue.
We also discussed a number of other matters.
Gofman-Tamplin papers attacking our radiation sta uchy e 10 or 12 weapons storage, it was agreed that perhaps an nuclear members to such sites, in order to assure their adequacy and AEC
, might be in order.
I described the reason for the delay in answering Halifield's l tt 3, 1970 embargo o(n foreign uran)ium and sel ing our own stoc copy attached, concernin e er of March t
State Department and Canada on the over-all ene ons between the
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We also discussed the proposed technical specifications on radi effluents for the Monticello plant and obtained general agreeme oactive s.
1 At 10:45 a.m. I presided over Information Meeting 1010 (notes Committee on the Environment. suggested that Commissioner La attached).
I noted that this would have a very beneficial effect on nuclearWe dis general.
letter from Dr. Hugh C. Porter (Superintendant, Com energy in
- 94 of West Chicago) for payments in lieu of taxes to the S h e
c ool District in connection with the 200 Bev Accelerator and decided c ool District #94 the Governor's attention to the agreement that the State of Illi a we would again call forego such pa pents when the Weston site was selected nois made to At 11:55 a.m. I presided over Regulatory Information Meeting 393 attached).
We had our final discussion of the amendments to 10 C notes and 50 and officially adopted them for publication in the Federa arts 20 week.
Commissioner Thompson voted with us with the caveat that he r right to object if we later put numbers into the regulations that were x
I ved the unsatisfactory to him, in executive session, with only the Commissioners and Julie R bi took up B0B Director Robert Mayo's March 9 memorandum (copy a u n present, we concerning the Executive Salary Schedule.
e determining our actual, if any, recommendations.We decided to defer until tomorrow The other Commissioners and I had a luncheon meeting with Russell (Chairman Environmen)tal Quality.
and Dr. Gordon J. F. MacDonald and Robert Cahn of rain DiNunno, Howard Brown, Chris Henderson, Milt Shaw and Jul attended. We discusse also our licensing process,d the Commission's interest in environmental problems, our impending steps to implement the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (the Jackson bill) our 10 CFR Parts 20 and 50 regulations, the G)fman-Tamplin accusatio
, our impending revisions to gave Train a copy of Judge Arraj's ru'ing on dVLISON and set up po
, etc. We contact between the AEC and the Council on Environmental Quality.
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At 2 p.m. the Commissioners met with Joshua Lederberg of Stanford University to l
give him the opportunity to discuss with us our radiation protection guides.
He suggested that these guides not be lowered but that, in order to insure that nuclear power reactors wouldn't consume too large a proportion of permitted radiation exposure we might announce that over a ten-year period we would allot no more than 10 percent of the guideline maxima to this source of radiation.
We described our impending change in the regulations which we said we felt would'be equivalent to this.
He also pointed out that he feels that individuals have tremendous variations in their susceptibility to radiation and this effect would be augmented by the effect of various other factors including 1
the environment.
At 3:30 p.m. I met with Ambassador Dobrynin in the presence of Dr. Harry Smyth, Ward P. Allen (Department of State), Myron Kratzer and Julie Rubin.
I told him that the reason for the meeting was to discuss the NPT and means of insuring its success. Attached is a talking paper covering the points I discussed with him.
I also gave him a copy of the paper which covered the main points of the discussion. Smyth, Allen, Kratzer and I all emphasized the importance of coming to an agreement on this matter with the Soviet Union before April 1, because if we do not work together we will not be successful in our common objective.
Smyth stayed on for a moment after the others left.
He told me that the matter of his termination date seems to have been amicably settled with agreement on July 15.
He also indicated to me that he thought Kratzer was much too busy with too many responsibilities so that it is difficult for him to carry out some of the important aspects of his duties in the international field.
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Dan Huebner (General Electric, Evandale, Ohio) and Tom Clark (Washington Representative, General Electric) came in to see me.
Huebner presented me with a tie tack which had been carried aboard by Charles Conrad on the Apollo-12 flight.to the Ocean of Storms on the moon in the November, 1969 mission.
I sent a letter to Elliot Richardson advising him that we are withdrawing our request for approval of Project STURTEVANT, and asking for approval of the FLASK event, I sent a reply (copy attached) to Chet Holifield's letter of March 13 (attached on March 16 Journal) advising him that the staffs of the JCAE and AEC met on March 6 to review the approach to the negotiation of power agreements requested by him.
I received a letter from Jim Conant (copy attached) thanking me for my part in the Pioneer Awards presentation.
I received a letter from Pres' dent Alvin I. Thomas of Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College (copy attached) thanking me for my visit.
I sent a letter to Sherman Knapp (President, AIF) thanking him for the Forum's i
offer of assistance in establishing the Uranium Enrichment Directorate.
Suki and I took a hike in the Fort Reno area.
Thursday, March 19,1970 - D.C.
From 10 to 11:30 a.m. Commissioners Ramey, Johnson, Thompson, Larson and I, Bob Hollingsworth and Ed Giller met with David Packard (Deputy Secretary, D00),
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