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mewing documents,$at show tpe federal government p a d for radtation expuvnents on p p k incfuding state prison--apd 14 Hanford workers who volunt*red for the The documents weh mentioned in Richland an Mondiiy at a h being conducted byithe Hanfor Health Effects Review Panel, put together by the Centeh for Disease Control and the state of WashingCopies of some of those docuin Richiaad in 1467 t o "determine the uptake. retentioa distribution and excretion of promethium ( a mdioactivt isotope) id humans following both oral and intravenous fecdveness ... in remonng pmme thium from tbe body.", The report stated that. "These concentrations were relevant to possible exposure of pa personNo conclusions were givea The documents say 14 voiunwere tested by physicians of the Hanford Environmental Health and excreta measurements were made by Pacific Northwest tpb raraty for one year." after tbe tests. Borh the Word Enviroarnwtal Health Foundation and the Pacrfic tiom to the study w e k funded by tbe Atomic Energ Commission a predecessor of the Deparunent of Radiation testing tjeqan in 1938 and continu4 iam 1980, according to copies of documents that were vided to panelists id RichLgnd ou of Word on the @lii An aide to %-Edward Markey, mittee on Enc , Conservation mimcsa bebg mi ved and that The aide, who asked that h i s name not be used said the Dcput. ment of Energy provided documtots to the subcommittee in 1984 be s ded up the s ~ mmi ~ Thase docrmrents are a o W belag Mulrey, wbo has been critical of thc nuclear industry, did not reiaun tslepitone calls Monday. Don Hodel. the former Department of Energy Secretary,wrote Ottinqer in September 1984 that. bea~c m for many yuvs for a varitty of masan. In some p jecu. s u d as the pducdon and use of pluronium during the w a r obuln rac iio bio i ~data an certain radionuclides i o t the purpose of utabiishuq saiety crireria far protwrion of individuals in the Mike Lawram%ztanager of tbe ments, which h e deqcribed as Samples of the t.dnq, occordjng c h a q e from the University of 8 Fmm A w l 3 6 3 tomy l57L 67 Only mea a& to a vasecarny volunteers at the Oreson State were acceqted for the tests. Men h a were subjected LO tcsticu~ar who chsoaed their minds sinhed