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State estimates ’45 radiation may have reached 2,300 rem By JOHN K. WILEY tbe Word Nuclear Rcseroatloa In t h e dose to Its thymid hudreds of ttmea higher than the level allowable today. a state spokesman said MonBut the spokesman adcnowIedged the data used to reach that conchdon were sketchy. and a fiantord offIczal s a d he had doubts about the pages of documents released by the US. Department of Energy in February was used as the basis of assessments by tbe state’s Office of spokesman At Conldia The report was presented honday b the Hanford Health Effects Panel that W recwmmcnd whether determining if more tbsn 40 years of Hanford operations caused inereascd Incidents of cancepa manager, said he doubted the doses were m high M the state office’s “If the does were that hlgh today, it would remit ia a major activatioll” of emergency r0;rcuatiOs programs, Lamce told reportm in his office. The report studied Hanford envi mnm d monitoring reports of Conklin canceded the f & u m could wry by a hctor of 10 or more either of the dose that m a y have been The prelkninary dose asami entS are based on incomplete or missing records and “prtmative” monitoring Still, he said reIeases of the peak production in 1445 would bavc resulted in a thymid dose to a infant of of nearly 2,300 rem. C m t rhndards aUow an annual dose of 1.5 A nm is I stmdard mtaslvtmtnt dabsorbed radiation in living tissue. A diagbsstic chest X-ray involves between .M r u n and .03 rem. There t debate among sclentIsts Over said the results are ba& measunments of contamination vegetation, which were hd qu ate for a total and accurate assessment. tunpkd b be cmservativs, yet way. Sbte MKarchvs were trying Assmnptioas used in cllculatlng particles, but ohen entk thS,bdy in It b especially qt ical in infants and children, kallge, their byroids
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Hanford Health Effect Panel member$. from left. Dr. Glyn Caldwdl, Nancy Klrner. Dr. Royrton Fnby 8nd Or. James Ruttenber hear testimony during the first day of hearings on the hearth effects of the Hanford Nudear Rbssr-jt-ion. kpproved at hospitals before tbe testa were conducted, she said, “We’re not talking aboui human told reporter$ Haxrford no langcr is involved in human expenmentation, dtbougb shkiku medical expsriments with radiation are a corn mon practice in hospitals, Lawrence The infomyition m s presented during the first day d testimony by pneL afrcwe duirman said people vation operatiam with incidenu of caneem and bther illnesses m y be expectatios that ae tmll be able to complete the study and andpis” of health dlects caused by &inford tlonr. mid Dr. Glyn Wdwell, rinnan d the Hanford Health EfBut czldwtll, assktant director af mPire recommendations dter its cpidanioloeist, said the wet will wry for dhm hbplng to dtablish a wved veteraas asked for help in b.plth buretits, Caldwell said lack of good infomation mll hamper the Lock of data and a transient pop Won are batriers to cornpletieg a credible epidemiological study, he said. The panel, selected by Dr. Jim Rurtenber of the national CenttR for Disease ConLml. heard katimony Monday by a number of federal and state agencies chargtd with monitoring radioactive and chtmiciil Tp a statement delivered by an Oregon, asked cztdwell’s panel to recommend aa immediate investigation of the cffect~of radiation on troops stationed at Camp Word Weaver said ,more than 3.700 troops were stationed at Camp Hanford in the L95os to guard Nika mistile anplacementsand that snmc had been conluntaatcd. Ings, Ore., told the panel he a& statloaed there in 1951. when I massive cansedhirhfr to fall out. Ttoopr were told to take showen and burn their clothing, but nothing more WY done, Mccidenkrg said. MeckIenberg and otbys now have tamom and ot!m health problems and are seeking paym ~ bfrom the “It’s golng t o be hard to unk any of n in ted ill na. one ln four people part da pupo what we cad 40,” h ion for sefvicc