ML19220A873
| ML19220A873 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/20/1979 |
| From: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| PR-790420, NUDOCS 7904250054 | |
| Download: ML19220A873 (1) | |
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FOR IMME01 ATE REI. EASE (Friday April 20, 1579)
E Hiddletown, Pennsylvania - An examinagion of 72I persons who live close to the site of the accident that occured March 28, 1979 art Three Nile Island has shown them to have'no internal contamina-C' Ton from the accident, officials of the Pe$sylvania Departments of Health and Environmental Resources and the Nucle.ar Regulatory Cbmmission announced today.
The screening program by means of 4 process called whole body counting was condu'cted jointly by these agencies, using a portable computerized detector housed in a truck parked in front of the Middletown Comunity Building, about three m31es frors the si te.
The examination of these people found no radioactive elements, such as iodine-131, that have been released from the Three Mlle Island facility.
Trace amounts of radionuclidos that are normally (bund in people everywhere, such as potassluin-40 and cesium-137, were found by the examinatlon.
Nine of the p'ersons examined showed siightly more than normal
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amounts of naturally occuring radioactive elements that come from the noble gas raden-222 and that are called j' radon daughters",
because these come from the radioactive decay of radon.
All nine persons have been informed by agency of fici4J s of the finding of these radon daughters In more than normal amounts.
They have been told that these elements are not related to the Three Mile Island incident and that the most likely source is the natural release of low amounts of radon gas from building materials used in their homes o r possibly in work places, built of stone or brick, or f rom other natural sources.
The levels detected do notl warrant any concern f6r the hesith of these nine persons and others livino with them.
I The 72I persons tested generally lived within three-miles of tNe site, on both the east and west shores of the Susquehanna River.
C$lidren as well as adults were surveyed in $his program, which took place over a period of eight days and ended st 7 p.m. Wednesday, Adril 18.
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