1180 would your sop. measurements show eome him! level of cesium in ¥. _M cCuaw. Yes. J cax. Do you have any way of knowing that be will not get cancer tious No. . Duncan. That is all I have. Ihave to go to another committee. I just wanted to worry you. Mr. Yares. Wait one half minute for my question. Getting beck to my comment about the federal standards, my son was treaied for « tonsil disease in 1044 by then applicable medical standards. He was given radiation in che trestment of his tozsils. Everyone thought it was It was a common medica! practice. Thousands of young people were having their tonsils removed or shriveled as a result of this treatment. He, like all the others of that age Froup: are now threatened with cancer because of having been irradi 25 years ago. So now these people—I assume the radistion he received may have been comparable to the ingestion of cesium or strontium. The thought occurs to me, and I talked to the cancer specialists at NCI in connection with some of the herbicides and additions to food, and they say amounts really don't mean very much at any particular time. The question is what will be the effect 25 years from now as 8 different |kind of stimulant or carcinogenic material is brought to bear on the . So getting back to the question of Federal standards, five years from now you might decide in the new Department of Energy that the levels you established are much too high and that you should establish lower standards because you have, as Mr. Duncan pointed out, seins more sophisticated equipment. a i $#z: McCeus. It is not « problem of being able to measure the dose level. It is knowing the effect. ; Mr. Yates. You might go now. Mr. Dencan. It is & question of exercising our best judgment. I would suggest that five years from now you might even be able to sustain even lower levels. icCpana: cre looking at 30 year standards, to keep the dose down for a long period of time. We are trying to kee the dose ina year below the annua! standards. and all the 30 year doses below the 30 year standard. SAFETY OF BIKINIANS UNDER PRESENT CONDITIONS Mr. Yares. That brings us to the question at hand. What _are you. j going tod ? You have the level of cesiumand stron Gum in the 1kinigns DS) epithe Sars. Have you told them move! to ev are still on their island. off? For your own good, you ought to Mr. DraLMr. Chairman,I don't know that anyone thinks thatthis is a life threatening situation at this time. Mr. Yares. i ; i It is the kind of thing that if you let it continue over s long period of time then it would begin to be of hazard to their health. DOE ARCHIVES 5001k IS