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health study i! I Iqorthwest statesmay seek federal funding for1 1 I'research LWOA ROACH MGNROE for awessing the Hanford Nuclear Resemtion'r The Ranford Health Effects Panel's central ncouunendadon pushed for a study of what harm may have d e to people fmm nubactive iodine miwed by Hanford &om ~944through the earb Fanelkts said the study could begia by ccdng ao little as $25,OOO but- if p d thoroughly -could end up costing millions of dollars over the next decade. It would look at the incidence of thyroid caner, nodules and other thyroid con&- With the nchmmeadatloos only a few minutes old, Washington state officials already were thinkin abqut where to find the money: the The U.S. ~Deps;aatntof Energy gave the state provide moe said Terry Huss a a ~ ~dirPctor of thc Washington Office of Nuclear Waste Manage "we belleve that it'$ veqd & h m thts pan. d't recommendations that additional studies are wcesary, andthe Department of Energy is rcally responsible f~~pmvidingthat funding. The public Is goingto want answers," Humem Michael hwctnce, manager d Enugy Department, said the "We're obviously going to have &'sit down CRfth the state and look at what the co$t No one has the authority to write bIapk checks," ~I%M?S gene dy reacted poaitlve~yto the rep03-reached after four days d often dus debate rmong the panelists. 11 I;'Tmgiadthey were so char0ndOiDgktudi~- and on everything," A d Nancy Kirnet, who heads the Washbeton Envjronmentd recommendations," raid Mary Lou Blazek. Han. ford program coordinator for the Ore'mn De*- Ray Ohy,a member of the tribal cOuacil.for erns would be addressed in any studies that were the counuy. My people an hen formiek " were high radioactldty epels in the Coldnbia Rfver because ei&t Hanford readton pobed their mungwater into the river. Ibtcrical d o m mtna rercased by Hanfonl in Feb& &ow*that its st ndia never focused on whether rO&m the Colum ia River and its !ish ly ad& tbst issue. although it advised stydies d "the possible dMt.s of all paa radiological 01posures." M o a of its dellberations foched 06 the tion and Dr.A. June gia for the U.S. Centem far Disease The other materials, including Washm~oo't,estimtes of ladfation doses p k rtCemed from the Iodine, and send a &port to'the regional might be pg d ve dia tio ? dow