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Dear Senator Rat field : We appreciate this opportunity to re8pond t o your request for co~mentoon the handout sheet prepared by the Citizens for S8fa POW^^, 6284 S.E. Jennings Avenue, Portland, Oregon This handout entitled 'my Did the AEC Recently Shut-down Two ofIta Nuclear Reactors at Ranford?" eta teeth at '%m. Beulah Rand raid that the real reason for there cat shut dawn of the two reactors at the AEC's Banford Reservation i n Washfngton i s wide-spread contamination of the Columbir River from radio act lv c substance8 released during reactor operations and fran leakage from waste storage tan hen The act i cle goes on to point out th rt Hrs, Hand's statameat is supported by an article en ttt led "Oregon Ualignancy Pattern Phpsiograpliically Related t o Ranford t h e Rhy-June 1965 irsu8 of the Journal of Environmental Be8Lth written by Robert C . Fadcley. In this uti cle, Mr. Fadeley reports that death rates from cancer inthe nine Oregon counties bordering on the Columbia River were much higher during t h e period between 1959 and 1964 tban were cancer death rates for the seventeen Oregon counties that are not directly exposed to radioactive contamination from the Colunbia River. Thir is an article which appeared in
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Honorable Mark 0. Hatfield - 2 - "B.cause of zacent concern over poerible conturdnation of tha Colw~bfaRiver by radioactive product8 from the Manford (Wuhlagtoa) Atomic Storage Rerervs an indspendmt study war ttndartaken to de temin a csn ce ~uendr in Washfngtoa .ad "?or tha md yr is, the comtiea within the two States were divided into fomr catogorlert Portland, And inland. river, ocean, Mmuopolitm "Rarulhr of the study rsveal that in both States mortality rates for a l l forms of cancer cmbfnad have baen consistently below the aarteility rate for t h e 0 . 9. white papulation. but t h e dxceir was present before the Banford Preserve began operatton. No important mortaltty trends were obrerved i n individual countieo in either State. '?lo widence wa8 found that porronr living downstream from the Banford Reserve or along the Pacific coast of Oregon have had an excess risk of death from cancer i o general or from leukemia in particular ." It should appsu: that i f the Citizens for Safe Power were concerned with prerenting all of the facta, they would have quoted from both articles. We belime th8t i t t r very important that all of the facts regarding nuclear power be placed f u l l y before the public so that unemotional and unbiased judgmants m r y be reached. Cftiaenr for Safe Power If we can be of further kncnv. TIIS handout from raired on the third page of the handout by the are being answered in another letter t o you. oervica t o you, please do not hesitate to let ua the Citizens for Safe Power i e returned a8