ML19331A961

Requests Encl Mh Degroot 701020 Ltr to Senator Holl Supporting Sternglass Theory Re Radioactive Release Impact on Infant Mortality Be Received Into Evidence

ML19331A961
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	06/21/1972
From:	Like I REILLY & LIKE
To:	Murphy A Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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...icO . . co,sw<mo June 21, 1972 Hon. Arthur W. Murphy, Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board .IHIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS Columbia University School of Law Box 38, 435 West ll6th Street P00R QUALITY PAGES New York , N.Y . 10027 Re: In the Matter of Consumers Power Company Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. 50-329 and 50-330

Dear Chairman Murphy:

During Dr. Sternglass' testimony on June 15, 1972, he re-ferred to a letter written by Prof. Morris H. DeGroot, Professor of Mathematical Statistics & Head, Department of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University bearing upon Dr. Sternglass' hypo thesis that exposure of a population to radioactive gaseous discharges at the levels currently being observed from the Dresden plant increases the inf an t mortality rate for that population.

The letter referred to by Dr. Sternglass is the enclosed copy of Professor DeGroot's letter of October 20, 1970 to Senator Edwin G. Holl, Chairman of the Select Committeo Investigating

Nuclear Power Plant Construction, State Capitol Building, Harris- '

l burg, Pa. Dr. DeGroot states: (p. 2) _

l "Af ter having carried out the statistical analyses mentioned herein, I believe that there is substantial l probability that this hypothesis is correct and that l increased exposure to radioactive discharges does l cause an increase in the infant mortality rate."

Mapleton intervenors respectfully request that the enclosed letter be received in evidence, not for the truth of Dr. Stern-glass' hypothesis, but as evidence of the belief of Dr. DeGroot that there is substantial probability that such hypothesis is correct.

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