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May 29, 1959
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Ir. Karl 2. Morgan
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Director, Health Physics Division
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Dear Karl:
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In @ recent publication of I. F. STONE'S WEEKLY, published May
k, 1959, Vol. VII, No. 17, is an article entitled "Strontium
Mey Be 60 Times Deadlier Than the AEC Says.”
It is published
at 5618 Nebraska Avenue, N.W., Washington 15, D. Cc.
It seems to be some sort of a union house organ but in any case
it says in a mmber of different places the point I mide to you
last Friday which, I am afraid, rather disturbed you. It says,
for example, on page 2, in speaking about MPCs for strontiun,
"This, briefly, describes the beckgroumd of the problem faced
by Subcommittee 2 of the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurement as it attempts to revise the maxizmm
permissible level for the boneseekers (like SR90).
terim there is honest confusion. No
universal acceptance as defining the
safety. According to AEC logic, the
SU is overly conservative and should
the other extreme a figure as low as
In the in-
single value can clain
border between hazard and
old maximm figure of 100
be raised to 200 S.U. At
3 SU could be justified.
There is an urgent need for more research, and for a dispassion-
ate application of what we already kmow." "The committee has
adopted the figure advocated by the AEC.”
In almost every case, therefore, there is confusion either delib-
erate or ignorant (but the reason is not really what matters)
over the role of the AEC and yourself in setting MPCs. In this
article you are repeatedly identified as the agent by which the
MPC is set by the AKC.
SDACON & PSBUCMTLas — Z
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