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plant official states ficial praised a 1 studying the rite’s health Friday irnd proxnised to cooperate tn health studies the group mcordmended. pulment of Energy’s Word op vations manager, Michael f a w - rence, denied the panel’s findings lemrr c a d by site activities. ”Bastd 00 our review of the workers, we have mt obscrrred any has never obscrved \iealth prob studi e hove covered it’s own workers, not nearby residents. p e l of 13 sdentkts ncomrpended further stpdp of srarptcted thyroid disease among tbosc ruideata The panel said discpe might have re suited from HlDford radiation re iy unusual’’ and potentially high enough to calne iumm. The panel KPS coavd by the federal Centers for DLlKaJC Control in At kn tk at the dqurrt of the state Nucleat W;lfte’Board. The board wa8 dur g to ume ms of &dents%?live downwind of Banford and cl;*tn ihigher than n o d iacidcace of cancer. The pel recammchded eithu I case comparison study, in which peopIe with disease am looked at to tion, 05 a Cohort Wdg, lp which the trposcd population u eramined for ita disease rate. The first swdy could cost about ~ 0 0 , 0 0 0md UKI accond at least $1 ed monitoring of Hanford workers ments Review Committee, a body of Washington, Oregon and Inofficials, will meet in Portl;urd oct 30 to consider the pcommcadatiom. It then will suggest action to Earlier in the day, the national rmllion, putel claimm GlgP kqce Fiby, bead of the docsments committg said the panel mte and dfsease studies “ye two start to look at immedwtely.’ Lameace said WE will wait for d p souad apdl xeve the COP cnvuoamcnhl prom on and 00 But lawreme wuwd mp“t of Et reksed to note some rp;?cific om he said DOE has. rrillhg to foot the whole bill for sue %me of t h e things and we’re iq to take P responsible pasition rpomibdity. Wbea or #t that meads to completely funding OT kidcing in I major, a reasonable ford the studies and will ask W E d t of beparment of Energy a c The a t e and DOE fought over rrho would pay for #e ~ tion a i pel, and mded up essentially spbitting the tab, m e aad mnects in the thyroid through miu pmduced by corn that graze 011 wnt.aminated dfacu of rageseed iodine oa the be in jeop in doses of ad Idaho to