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Asociatsd Press Writof the Hanford nuclear reservatioa in dose to f t j thyroid hundreda of Umes. higher than the level allowable today, a state spokesman said Monday. But the spokesman acknowiedged tbe data used to teach that conclusion was sketchy, and a Hanford offiefal said he had doubts about tbe figures. fnformation gleaned from 19,000 pages of docurncnia released by the U.S. Department of Energy in Febm a r g was used as the bask, of pnllminary radiation dose assessmeuts by kction, said rpokcsmim Al ConUn. The report was ptrsented Monday to the Word Health Effects Panel tbrt will recommend whether medical studies would be lwefvl ia dctermtning astfons caused increastd lncldcnta of ment'a Word operations manager, said he doubted &e d o s u were BLI high as the state office's calculatiorw. emergency cvacua tf on programs, Aated h i s opinion of the findings, If more than 40 pars of rronford o p Ianrmce told raporknin bia office. Lmmenceiiid: "r'mbot going to take mu?That's wmahlng the panel prill mental monfptating npwb of radiation COrrLun kmcedd the flgarw cotdd ruy by a factor cjf 10 or more tither estimotc the potential magnitude of tM dose that m y have been received. are based on incomplete or missing records and, "primitive" monitoring S t i 4 he said nIeasea of the radioacdnctloa in 1915 wodd have resulted In a thyroid dose to a bypothetical "martmally e q m s d ' ' infant of of nearly 2,- annual dose of 1.5 rem. A rem is aShnW meormtcment of absorbed radiation ln livtng tissue. A heen .02 rem and .arem. That ia debate among scientists over abctber any level of radiation exposwe Is free of healtb*Radiation safety experts use the hypotbetfcaf penan who receives maxh u m leoela of tadlation from all po4any such penon exists, they say. cnce said. "No one will ever h o w wip m y precision" the dosu receivd by residents in the region, he added. ; , The doses got dramatically Smaller b the amid. It caa be ingested by breathtng contamfnated particles, but pttcn atem the body b milk p do ccd by cwa tbat boa eaten contamimttd smallti, causing the radionuclide to . become more cunctatrakd. Cancer of the thpid can be tresh bs. removal of the organ, SO la rarely