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Comments on NUREG-0534 Suppl,Draft EIS for Facility.Takes Issue w/NRC-EPA Attempt to Give Statistical Figure of Effects of Nuclear Power Since Effects of Exposure to Low Level Radiation May Not Be Known for 10-20 Yrs
ML19340D075
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Site: Summer South Carolina Electric & Gas Company icon.png
Issue date: 12/17/1980
From: Wasserbach A
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To: Chilk S
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
RTR-NUREG-0534, RTR-NUREG-534 NUDOCS 8012290017
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Dear Secretary Chilik:

Unit No. Docket No. 50395 NUREG-0534 supplement South Carolina Electric and Gas Co.

On page 6-4 of referenced DEIS supplement, it is stated that: " Lower levels of exposure (to radiation) may also constitute a health risk but the ability to define a direct cause and effect relationship between any given health effect and a known exposure to ratintion is difficult given the backdrop of many other possible reasons why a particular effect is observed in a specific individual. Forzik this reason, it is necessary to assess such effects on a statistical basis. Such effects include cancer, which may not develop for many years (up to 3 for leukemia and 10-20 for other forms of cancer) after exposure, and genetic changes, which may occur ove several generations fonowing exposure of a prospective parent."

IF, indeed, exposure to low level radia%on will not manifest itself for iubco10 to 20 years, how can the NRC/ EPA even attempt to give a statistical figure of the effects of nuclaar plant generation for any nuclear facility? IF it is KNOWN that such effects take place after 10-20 years, WHY hasn't NRC/ EPA done a through health research on popolations living around a nuclear facility. WHY isn't such a study being done on a living (?) laboratory for such research, the people living in the area of the Three Mile Island reactor?

On page 6-3 of the referenced supplement, it is stated that though a "few" million cur?.es were released at the TMI accident of 1979, "None is known to have caused any radiation injury' or ' fatality to any member of the public, nor any j significant containination of the environment". Well "Known" is a very large I word in this context. DID anyone actively LOOK for radiation injury or fetal fatality? How can anyone rationally say no KNOWN radiation injury or fatality when NRC/ EPA and NAS " experts" claim that they domome NOT know, and it is diffbcult to define 'a direyt {or indirect) cause and effect relationship? How can one " estimate" the health effects of the Virgil Summer Nuclear Station routine releases / health effects in 10-20 years, when the masses of mS=- releases l at TMI have not bken[s,d;tentifically measured, ncMthe effects of even such large

! d==wec doses of Xenon-133 and radiciodine on public health been measured in the field _ - not on a piece of paper in Washington. Why does the nuclear industry and its regulators continue to approve operating licenses for nuclear facilities 3

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