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Dr. Thomas B. Cochran
RE:
Draft Environmental Impact Statement -- Enewetak
Staff Scientist
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J. Willard Rousevet ENCLOSURE:
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Edwin M, Zuniperman, Esq.
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664 HAMILTON AYDNUE
PALO ALTO, CALIF. 94301
"Radiation Standards for Hce* Particles,"
A. R. Tampolin and T. B. Cochran, NRDC,
14
Feb ruary,
1974
NRDC finds the “Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Clean Up,
Rehabilitation,
Resettlement of Enewetak Atoll -- Marshall
Islands,"
to be incomplete and inadequate.
Furthermore, the provosed (preferred)
clean up operation is totally inadequate to protect the health of the
Enewetak people from exposure to hot particles of plutonium which carry
a high risk of producing lung cancer.
The basis for these conclusions
is presented in the report, "Radiation Standards for Hot Particles,"
by OTS. AYthaur A. Tompiin and myself (enclosure).
This report is
intended to-be an integral part of these comments.
2.
"Radiation Standards for Hot Particles," was written in support
of a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council to the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Atomic Energy Commission re-
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(1)
a reduction of the existing radiation protection stancards
applicable to the internal exposure of man to insoluble alpha~emitting
hot particles and (2) the establishment, with respect to such materials,
of standards governing the maximum permissible concentrations in air and
maximum permissible surface contamination levels in unrestricted areas.
3.
The petition was
filed with the AEC on February 14,
1974.
It is
totally irresponsible for the AEC Task Group on Recommendations for
Clean Up and Rehabilitation of Enewetak Atoll to issue its report on
June 19, 1974, without acknowledging the serious implications of hot
particles as detailed in our report.
4.
It is NRDC's position that the clean up of Enewetak should meet the
Standards summarized on pages 51-52 of our report (enclosure).
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