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Radiation dosage may have be& high near Hanford in 1945, official4 1 from radioactive releases, Mike 4PerThe Auaciated Press gy Department’s Ranford operat!ops r nuclear resenation in lD45 could have received a calculations. ndioactive d v to its thymid hundreds of times “If the doses were that high e y , i‘ higher than the level dowable today, a state health in a major Activation” of eme%en@,I ‘ e1 spokesman said. grams, tawrencs said But the gpsk*man acknowledged the data used to Asked his opinion of the findingk L peach that conclusion was sketchy, and a Hanfbtd “I’m not going to take a position: .\.A: official Said he had doubts about the flgures. tic figures?That‘s something the panel Information gkaned fram 19,WO pages of dacu- The report studied Hanford e&(:meats reieasedb y the US. Department of Energy in toring reports of radiation release4 bet’ Febnraq was used as tbe hasis of prelim in q radia- 1956. lo ’cal F’rotectlon, said spokesman AI Conklin. tor of 10 or more either way. Stale res kc report was presented Monday to the W o r d trying to estimate the potentia! hi Health’Fffects Panel that will recornmad whether dose that may have been receivG ; medid stud= would be useful in determining if The Prehinary b e assessments more than 40 years of Hanford operations c a M incomp ete or missing records and ‘‘pr increased incidents of caaccrs. torirl insuuments, Coaklia added 1 The 13-tnerdber Hanford Health Effects Panel S t d , he said releases of the bdic spent its first f$l day Monday listening to testimony iodine131 during pcak p d u c ~ o nI from federal apd state officials whose jobs are to have resulted in a thyroid d o y to monitor health and environmental impacts of the “ d y exposed” infant of of pei A rem Is a standard measuremer Energy summgized radiological experiments on radiation in living tissue. A diagnosl volunteer prisoners in Washington and Oregon in the involves between .02 rem and .03 ;rei 1960s and 1970s- bate a m o n g xiwtists over whether ai As for the spte’s esJtiq.lrtes of thyroid exposure ation exposure is free of health &k. RICEiAND An infant born near the Hanford he doubted the doses were as Information released by the U.S Department of ie of the