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3801B west 44th dive.
Anchorage, Alaska 99503
Octover 14, 1973
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Joe Deal
USAEG
washington, D. 7. 20545
Tear Jop:
You asked me to put down sone of my thoughts 78 a result
of our recent meeting on paper,
write,
So..
1.
even though I hate to
I question the political need of having to go to
& the cvamma MPC for individuals (and applaud the
thought of using the international individual level
of approx. .5R/year).
The natives of Enewetak
should not have appreciatle doses from other man-
made sources,
9 of tne HPT.
ee
80 I suspect we could sell approx.
Fut,
The MPS'a ere set the wey they are by assuming
linearity of effects (which I don&t believe).
So I feel it 18 appropriate to ottain the numters
on those effects for the small population expected
on the upper end of the stoll.
If the effects are
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1 cancer/30 years) then I cannot
see selling to Congress reducing the numbers
linearly by factors like two at the expenditure of
several millions of dollars.
I propose we try to sell the concent that the gamma
dos6 over the next generation can ve made acceptarie
by minor plowing of the upver islands, and
Ssppropriats village construction.
People in large
numbers will not be on the northern end @f the
atoll for 5-7 years.
The dose rate will drop to
approx. # in ten yaars.
The p:utonium protlem on Runit is a sticker.
Sugeest
more information 1s essential.
What are sirtorne
plutoniumcose
rates?
What plutonium levéls are in
editle plants?
whet does this mean in tody burden
from expected ingestion?
I suspect these answers
will show thet piutonium protlem on Runit does not
require clean-up if present MPt's for airtorrs
plutonium are accepted.
However,
I
suspect these
MPC's will chénge in the nert few years.
size
should
hecome important.
Particle
If you wish to get
problem to status that no future worry is necesrary,
then co that
ty removing soil in proper regions of
Runit ecd renlacing with clean soils.
Problems of
soil disposal and replacmmant source should be
solved tefore settling on this path.
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