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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I January 17, 1990 f

l- NOTE Fuk: Hugh L. Thompson, Jr.

FROM: Peter Crane i [ !' ...

SUBJECT:

POTASSIUM IODIDE DPO As you consider the DPO panel's report, you should be aware

of.the attached letter from the American Thyroid

~ Association. 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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January 5, 1990 j Hugh --

Just a followup point to our KI discussion of  ;

2 yesterday. NUREG-0654, the 1980 document establishing the l j

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

" Planning Basis for the Development of State and Local 4

Government Radiological Emergency Response Plans in Support

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

' 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 i aspect of emergency planning a decision-making approach that

, has been judged inappropriate for all other aspects of

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