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f9tfbn workers, their families and zed, a panel of experts looking at ,$.he effects of radioactive emissions The panel emphasized in the that thyroid dhuw should be studied in people who may have been ex@ to radioactive r e Health Effects Review panel also said that W and reproductive problems of Word workers and their spouses as well as soldiers ‘stationed a t Camp Hanford and construction workers here in the 1940s should be identified and .+ The Department d Energy, which rum the nuclear &mation, maintains that radioactive emissions have c a d no haim to nearby populations, but a rnajority of the panel members eaid in an informal vote that the department haa no “sound scientific The panel of expert^ said that. the department should make ita health and cause-of-death data on its workers available to other scientists so‘ the results can be The department’e own studies indicate that Ranford workers are more healthy t&u~the norm. “We are not saying that past actione resulted in absolutely no health effects,” said Department of Energy Hanford Operations Manager Michael Lawmnce yesHe said the &cy will try to follow the recommendations the panel haa outlined for diecovering “We find the report to be technically sound,” he said, and promised that the agency would work with the atate to try to implement as many recommendations as possible. “We’re in agreement with the general conclueions,”he Ssid, but he added that mme of them may getting complete informatlon on radioactive doses the public has been exposed to. tione on who would pay for the studies, but he said the state would have to foot some of the Hanfd Historical Documents think there is much doubt that the state of WdGngton does not have be difficult to carry out, 6.Uch as