iit Ym Aooeee FRENCH POWER BUREAU CABLE ADDRESS: TELEFAX: . DUPONT CIRCLE BUILDING -FRANCENERS' 1346 CONNECTICUT AVE., N. W. GBN WASHINGTON. D.C. 20036 IM YOUR REPLY REFER TO. TELEPHONE: DE. 2-2388 28878 July 27, 1966 Mr. M.B. Kratzen, Director Division of International Affairs Atomic Energy Commission Germantown, Maryland RE: Annual Report to Congress TID 5358 Dear Mr. Kratzen: Dr. Delpla, who is the head of the Radioprotection Department of Electricité de France would be grateful to receive further information on the following excerpts quoted from the Annual Report to Congress for 1965 TID 5358: a/ Annual Report to Congress for 1965 of the USAEC, p.114: ",.. nodules were detected in the thyroid glands of 11 of the Rongelap people in the group of 82 who received the highest exposures...microscopic examination... from an adult woman confirmed the presence of cancer of the thyroid with local metastases." b/ TID 5358 (July 1956), p.74: "... the integrated dose to the thyroid from 1131 and other shorter-lived iodine isotopes was calculated by the USNRDL to be about 100 rep. The LASL has estimated that this dose was about 150 rep for Rongelap ae st weft t Cat fx3 om wil group..." DBRS