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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
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