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Comment (1) of William E. Morris on Pseg'S Plan to Produce Cobalt-60 Which Can Be Used to Promote and Maintain Human Health
ML100920547
Person / Time
Site: Hope Creek PSEG icon.png
Issue date: 03/16/2010
From: Morris W
- No Known Affiliation
To:
Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch
References
75FR9445 00001
Download: ML100920547 (2)


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,/o 5'1ý te-l- (-?qLx /--ý F) 3/16/10 To: Chief, rulemaking and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington D.C. 20555-0001 I salute PSEG for their plan to produce Cobalt-60 which can be used to promote and maintain our health.It is interesting that Cobalt-60 was involved in an accidental but very important experiment in Taiwan. Cobalt-60 was accidentally mixed with steel which was made into reinforcing rods used in constructing apartments.

The mistake was discovered 15 years later, and it was found that apartment;occupants had.,received radiation doses averaging 7400 millirems per year. This is 20 times the average dose of 350 millirems per year that Americans receive.A survey of about 10,000 apartment occupants-showed a cancer rate of only 3% of the rate for those who receive an average radiation dOse. This means that concerns about low level radiation are comfpletely-unjustified.

The medical use of Cobalt-60 and other nuclear power by-products is a bonus for us, over and above the use of nuclear power.I have no pecuniary'inter6st in any company involved in nuclear power.William E. Morris (302) 475-7060 2124 Brandywood Drive Wilmington DE 19810

Reference:

Feder.al Register 3/2/10 pages 9445-9449..- , .O p..aes......................

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