compensation provision inthe state that thy worked Ws especialy tue

Tennessee and Washington.

EISENBUD: Weil, depended on the state. | discuss that in my book. This heips fo pit the
whole subject into perspective, because It was not unfl after the wer that ail the states hed
workman's compensation coverage for the workers. imagine that! The first one didn't have
until, | think it was 1922, which was long before you folks were bom, but not so long ago in
historic terms. Europe was 56 years, 75 years ahead of us.

“The first state was Wisconsin. In 1922, | believe, they got a workman's compensation policy. but
for occupational disease. And there were bona fide historical reasons why oocupationsl disease
wasn’t included. People recognized that they were [creating] reservoirs of silicosis .
Whose cases were they? if a man worked for 10 different companies and was exposed to sifica
and now has silicosis, who pays?

‘And they finally worked that out, but i wasn’t until well after the war that the rest of the states had
workman's : disease coverage. And then the question of statute of fmitations came
up, and it took time to resolve that.

“The people that get into the field now, they think, “Oh, these are easy questions, and we should
have thought about them.” But no, i wasitt easy at all; It was tough. It was a tough fight.
FISHER: You point out in your book that when information on health was forth coming fom
employei$ Ws eftiployeés and to industrial fy and stich, it ves always done.on the
emviovore terms. They kept a lot of that heafin data rather close to the vest. Was that true with
the AEC early on?



records. Such an effort vould not only enhance the
present aystens but would eisa minimize the costs of retrieving and rewark~
ing ‘the date being maintained by ASC contractors by © wide verlety of sath=
ede. The standsrds ware eceived ot considering rot only study cemds, fut
alua the many apilications, siniasthitity cf dete es Gvidence in cases of
Mitigation, eta. . Thus the inplemetation theresf should enhance the antral
program, provide eusily sutzievebie, ancurate information for dafunes of
Aitigaticn us well ss ¢5 further the study with « sinimm of coat einog Sone
fora af record has to be ustiteined fn eny ovaiit. Thus fer suppert of this
8. The study group had sles activated ow Ad Hoo Task Grow of leaders with~
in the fleld wha ced especially sompetent in asdesenant of internal. body
burden, The findisge of the graup heva teen vate evelleiis ta the ACC Hued~
- quarters Riplagy and Medicine end the Syaraticnal Sefety Gtours. Fue
setive suppart by the EROA xeprementatives is needed to tesclva shin aspect -
of the work; Nat only dowe'the study deperd on our ebility ta getebiieh
totel dose to the organ of reference or tatel body but ultimately the ERDA.
eisa wast feom up to the validity ar lack ttidreot of the body furden assess
manta being mads by ite contrestora, Ravent révorking of tha Hanford reo~
ards ie eri sttampt to fit tha findinge with tha reoomandstiona of he Ad

Hoo committees thie work ues wecently veviowad ath Or. i; 8. Sqyiér, phate’
men cf the Ad Hoo grou Celso sanuat ‘Gietvedty ait TONP, ena NOR, Untetnel
dose comittees). 4e tecammunded thet ise usa, the monpubud. dose, end exposure
with the body burdén / tine gesdsement-to sen 4 there ua eny-egtideent or
significant varlanded. . 26 waidd be wall to inok at tha problem, pextioular~
ly a8 ragerds thosw cass uhere the axpusures ‘deve $e Highly ineotusie U--
compounds which exhibits muofi longer than expected biological halftime for”
elinination. | ae Tot. .
H. Off afte cadietion. exposure data was recognited es a problea-by the.
project paracritel. iret, ainca it wes dpparent that the regorde af tran ,
forces within the AEC-—Contrantar complex were not being updated to xefleat- .
prior exposures, but also becauss off alte teating (DASA expoture dete) end
piavicus suploynent, deta-an exposures for other agencies (Armed Survicds,~
OvEU, ete.) vere not included tn the ccoupatione! Mfetine accumulative ex-
posure records. In\the case of exchange betwean AEC contractor oF other

. putefde aganay expesire, theses problens hava been keought te the attention
of both contractor end ERDA personnel, In the case of OASA records, we have
ecquired the eicrofilm records and have since abteined ths punch cerd rene

ava garmene to the total

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wok te

For the next MO mogthey be wee Celaya! #20 ot carcinons

estimated 150 |, predominantly UFg, He died of carcinom of”
the stomach 9 weeks after the tersinstion of employsent. & post
the stomiowed oranina concentration dn the bone of O-bO, O.h3 and
0.67 ug/g from three samples. .

-another case € J|y was enpileyed for 2 mnths at an operation
AnotiiGing an eatiaated exposure of 17,600 ug/n? (80% U0z and UF),
- and 20% UF)» This man died of tuberculosis 10 months after -
termination of and an attopsy showed an uranium cone
semiition in the bone of an average of 16.8 vg/g from five samlese



AZ

‘Effective Date: 10/24/2003 _| Revision No. 00 Bacument No. ORAUT- 47 £125

incident was the plugging of floor drains, with the consequent formaiion of puddles of contaminated
fiquids on the floor at Plant 6 (AEC 1950k).

55 OTHER DATA OF DOSIMETRIC INTEREST
5.5.1 Number of Workers:

supervisory’
Sri ck jo classifications in an appendix. AS noted above in Section 5.4.3.1, over 2000 fim Badges
a month were processed In the 1950's.

5.5.2 Number of Hours Worked per Week,
From AEC dust study reports (e.g., AEC 4954), the following information regarding time spent is
provided as follows:

Length of work day, including :
breaks and focker room time 480-520 minutes (8-8.6 hours)

Lunch break 30 minutes

Smoking breaks 30-40 minutes

Clean locker room - 20 minutes

Regulated locker room 15 minutes .

‘The longer work day applled to operators and craftsmen, who presumably had to jeave their work
areas to smoke. There was a 40-15 minute variation in the work day among plants as well. The total

break time was 30 minutes for Plants 6E ard 7, but 40 minutes for Plants 4 and 6 through
about 1955; after that it was 30 minutes for ail plants.

While AEC-NYO0 took the weekly number of hours fo be 48 (or six 8-hour days) In catculating some
of their early time-weighted average airbome concentrations (AEC 1949), Lippmann (1958) used 40
hours in reporting data regarding Harshaw workers. it can be assumed in the case of the Mallinckrodt
workers that they typically worked for a full 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, or 40 hours per week, since
that will conservatively cover both the actual 5-day and the actual G-day cases. When using dally
waighted dust sampling data (e.g., in Tables 43-47 and 21-24), it is important fo understand
that break, lunch, and locker time was factored into the weighted averages reportad by AEC and

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Section F2. is supplemented as follows _

Based on ow review of the records and NIOSH site profile, there was no isotope specific
monitoring by ARC or Mallinckrodt for internal exposures to actinium 227, 5

Gross alpha and beta measurements in urine bioassay ave inadequate to distinguish
between uranium uptakes and the far more radiotoxic substances such as actinium and
protactinium. NIOSH's general assomptions about dose from the raffinates and filter cake
do not capture the full range of potential uptakes, particulary inhalation.

Furthermore, the poor working condition and inadequate personal protective equipment
will result in intakes through wounds. NIOSH has failed to adequately account for dermal
contact with powerful beta emitters such as actinium.

NIOSH should also take note there is a September 20, 1951 notice that the laboratory
would accept no uxinc samples for internal dosemitry monitoring in the 4th quarter of
1951 for Mallinckrodt personnel-except for cmergency situatuions-because of an
“unusual workload" on the chemical labs-atory. It would be infeasible to estimate
internal dose for this time period.


<n 7 sie, Walk 4. tigle a, sa J. Bernal ra scposure enct mortally in a
ote nanien processing workers. Am 3 Epkdemiot 2000;152(1):01-96. ;

‘Among nonmalignant outcomes, the SMR for chronic nephrits was 4.88 The scope of the study
Gid not include morbidity from renal failures, only mortafity.

This sty was done by Oak Fige inate for Science end Education under contra to OSE

Eisenbud point out that workers were inhaling getiing large doses of uranium dises

HUMAN RADIATION STUDIES:
REMEMBERING THE EARLY YEARS

Oral History of Merril Eisenbud.—



Tit. TOENTIFICATION OF THE RISK POPULATION - Lo
' As VarSed from monitoring el} employees to selecting those uith = 10% of

8. Payro}t. records reflecting ohanges ih nctupationel asatgrainte were ine
Sompletes in fast, @ Largs segment Of these records were wlesing and hed to
ba veplaced by projest funding and programing te Social Sesarity numbers,

“ eta,
S- Identification of tha individual uarker-with his ware autixity could not

be accomplished, This hea Largely been completed #2 & result

rots fleodent of the individual in « spectfis work emdromet.

I Tv. OTHER CONTRIaUTORY STREES FAErORS

A. Sings we ere concerted with esteblia
; e the health and mortality of vestatd,
stress fecters such as amueure to



‘atate of the ert today, wa age not much further elong the path of being

able to predich with reasonable cradiiility, what these effects sre or

® may bocoue with the edvencing aye of the exposed populations, Daapite
tha eungljie engoing anisat studies which ere vitelly weeded, wien one |

reflects on the wilti~vertente which mustupe conaidercd in assessing
the effects of multiple exposures, ona myst considsr, sng abies,
such factore sss

a Particle size end aotubility in bedy fluids.

& intake and disteitution in the hody argens end tiene.

a. “Coubined effacts of inturnel end external rediaticn.

de Intenatty and quality of the radioactive substencan,

“a Exposyre. ta otter taxied substences uhich may eles be cepable
of producing ‘suaparable effacte uithin the human body, hence,
Tending tn felew postive fladings or uhioh may in cengunation
with radiation have « synergistic, sutagonistic, eddities op iins-
pendent singuler effect. ¢

5. & ith tha peaceful applications of the use of ataxic energy,
contractors with en interes end capebility in the fleld.ware ene
ployed ta carry on the. vartous artes of reseerch snd production,

with ‘one Faderat Govarnmint exanjiaiie ate (alias Si eect

exating within the hroad putlines of the later recoumidetiona of
the BHO,LORP, SOR? end AEG guidelines varied widely.

\ b.. Me do not have en ideal homogenous populutian exposed st very~
ing Jevels to = single of aven a fou sources of ionizing eadiation
ov. other taxis substencesy Ustection control, investigation and
recording of date was and still fs in wsny instenves paculier to”
tha particular instatleticn. Houmver, sven if thia were not true,
4& hes been Clearly stated by the study group that 2t wmdd be un-
warranted to concluds at extrapolate if the population in the Hane
ford end*qek Riciga Sperations experience no edvarae sffecta; thet
this io necessarily the enswer to the question of the biological .
effects of low level donizing rediation in eli eather AEG fecili~

D . ties. This has been expressed in subsequent progress reports in

“on


“

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/ crema, curtexvone epplisigns ith rather pocs. sensi

grlor Amt “‘s Copy
“SOME. OBSERVATIONS, ON URANIUM EXPOSURES WITHIN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
“A. F, Becher, Consultsnt, ERDA Health & Mortality Study.
. 2 - :
HISTORY .
A, Sinne inception of the Atomic Enargy Progran, it hes been a requisite
that contractors “meintain all heetth physics records on en indefinkte rac-
ond aghadule"y without the foregaing polloy she feasibility of this study
would be purely etadenia. Unfortunately, the specifies es to whet dnta vores
ta be indluded in thie cospandiue of date were riot and to thie- dete ett)
have not been finalized. in retrospect, one readily aves the problems whitch
have plagued us over the yeers in esteblishing suoh requiresents, Treas ving

ba summarized as follouss

2, Those ‘charged with serly qespomathilities end contend sersunea he. :

Little, 2 any, peecedant to fall back on except for the, sole

invalving the Schnsahurg miners of Saveria, he tadian dlat pat rae
the United Ststes, thorotrast workers end the enklyosing “spondyi4! 8

‘cases in Grest Eritetn, end those invalving rostenologtats in all gutin~ *-

‘erice, Then. tes, the uerly ufforte were directed un & Srash betta, tha
Completion of thr stoic weapons af | ig x were anviaionad j ‘thine

intervel a? concerr. —-
2, Rérsunnal winitoring, detedtion deities ‘end

Sty. Colldstictis of senplés end Isboratary ‘techniques if ag Feths
‘ erudé by sadesn compuxicony howtver, einoa the initist squoduree o°
eildresasd mainly ti the uertioe applications, the loigwtite los tinal
Srocnatee fo dontting sedation had & much lower patos ty. 2

. Intrlasia tothe establichmen’ end parheps initially Parming ‘ttis ‘
_ Buk of the séccnde vece tw necondad or poniadabed efgeauren fe 5at~
sonnel ss esteblistad-by use of pocket chaubars aid finally film sete.
Unfortunataly, this feature continues with us to thia date, where most
.entagoniste or ave protegonists cf the increased use of ubenio enercy
continue to squate radiation affents with whole body penetrating gediar
tion which than 4¢ rendily esecolated with the “prompt® end sesiduel —
effects of « mejor radleticn eccident~-detonation of an atomic wespon,
ate. ‘ : ,
&, To a fer iasssr degree heve people been concernad with the less
predictebls effacts of internal radiation and eve within the present

pus

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NYU, eventually serving as Director of the University’s Laboratory for Environmental Studies. As
New York City's first Environmental Protection Administrator, from 1968 to 1970 during the
Lindsay Administration, Eisenbud was pethaps the first official in the United States to have that
title. Mr. Etsenbud has also served in the following positions:

1958-1882, Member, Board on Radioactive Waste National Academy of Science;
4957-1985, Member, Panel on Radiation, The World Health Organization;
1964 to , National Council on Radiation and Measurements;

‘And, for lack of institutional memory, of which there's a great deal, when somebody from ORAU
called me and asked

something about Maltenkrodt, and | asked them what they were doing, they sald they a er

an study of the delayed effects on the workers. | , "Weil, have you seen our

report?" They had never heard of it.

FISHER: Reinventing the wheel.

EISENBUD: Well, we found it for them. We found it. | think | mentioned that in my book.

FISHER: Actually, in an interview with Newell Stannard that you gave, you said that Mallenkrodt

and Harshaw were the worst. _

EISENBUD: Yes. They were the worst.

FISHER: Now, what does that mean? The worst what?

EISENBUD: Well, they were-these were plants that were designed to operate for, perhaps, 60

days, just to make enough uranium for a couple of bombs. They went on for five years, six years,

something like that, and the exposures were very high.

Against the standards of -1 don't remember exactly, but | think the maximum amount of uranium
in air was supposed to be 50 micrograms per cubic meter; we were measuring milligrams per
cubic meter, and they-were-excreting'as much as‘a milligram a day in their urine.

So | would say our group was, for that time, uniquely epidemi iologically conscious. We even
hired the first biostatistician that the AEG ever had, a fellow named Brandt. He worked for us at a
time when even the national laboratories didn’t know what a biostatistician was.

HARRELL: Did your work get those plants closed, or were they closed because they were no
jonger

EISENBUD: it was obvious that they either had to be fixed up or closed, and, for the most part,
they were closed, and Fernald [(an AEC uranium processing facility in Ohio)] was (inaudible).
Worker's Compensation History :

FISHER: {t was an interesting time in the evolution of the insurance industry for workers at that
time, because there was some conflict between wark man’s compensation

for accidents versus repeated
exposure.

‘This was an issue that keeps coming up in insurance branch stuff, where, if any employee fell
down on the plant floor and broke his leg, that would be covered, but repeated exposure to a
substance during the course of work, fike uranium in a mill, would not be covered by a


| !

te ‘Records for internel exposure varied widely; in no cess had an
atcesenent been wada.of body or organ burden avertins far al} re-
carded bio-assey or whole body Sount. Conversion to Ras dase or
other equivalent noméi@lature hed nob been done. Hanford had the
foundation far auch a system which fas bagn completely cpdated

with study fimding end programing. Oak Ridge tes nob. Body

count ‘date’ at Ock Ridge hes taen taped, in teres sf-lung funder,
end biowasesy résulte omputerteed ta reflect scrietion ube PSE

2% ne, voiding.
@ Tho aystenctfo destruction of other ‘vital supporting records

“auch a= PEQts, peyreti,-ato., had to be ourtetted by project eo,
tian. .

f. Regard ‘as found witeh would paced’ the. ogregetton of ZiBk Ws,
. )- Ronetst employees’ wine amiiehle end het to-be rhworleide ~ . ‘,
- VARYANGES IN LOWER LIMIT OF GETEGTTON, PRERIGION OF MEAGURCRENT . S40 ;
Ae “carly uso of fiin dusieatere.on a weckly baste” Lintted lower detection * :
Vimtt for sensitive film-to enproxtsately 30 eRad; generally spesking, 4. t
velua of $0 wad ie univarenlly encinted ov tha winimm detertshhe for the

various file eoulsions, emilopad.
8. tith extonaton oP badging cyains to twenty, nonttdly. one fivialty to i
- Soul

irregularities such es expoeure'ta heat, Iight, badge contentaatton ob, pEO-
oaéaing effagis pereitted daies of as much ot 300 afew exnsnune to: pons am

Glation end doutle tha value for beta radiation. Above thease veluss the

dose wes velideted.
a. clacesouy senitng prectioin eacted fron zendonly ettetnad opat eemphee

to regularly acheduled-*friduy aftamnacn® o “Monday morning®. senples, in
soma cases 150 wl symplen\uera wit and weighted to reflect & standard 2+
fe. voiding (S00 mi) wherees in others complstea voiding ware recoverad.
The exceptions te these precticss ware in the case of known eonidental ex-
posure whore complate voiding, usually including fecal sempies, vara col~
lected and totel body or orgeen burden wes essessed. — .

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seme .
oa pre 7
GiMeLS WORKSHEET BOR COMPUTENG DATEY WEIGHTED AVERAGE ECrosuss °

pesancas” PROGRESS EBUPER ~ SIND FICTER 1 men/shiths 3 shitte/days'b mex/Soy

Operation per Operz. per - of Sines
or Spars per SRift  sSamp~ (C) “Total tine
Operating Area Sa) spite (Hin)(t} iss low High Aver. (3 X C)
bird
filter cake 8 3 a 4 6 Is B 2,000
Plowing off i
cake 5 3 Bis 3 TO 5H 232 4,200
area - _ - 2a 2 2 #175 “97° U,700
Digester snd . oo
) wecovery + - 80 5 5 82 VY 2,500
Denitration pod .
‘area ~ - go 32 5 & 2,800 .
Falter press . :
room - - 60 k 2 «8S 1,800
Cleaning press iL 2 n h 190 6S 376 300.
tamsh ond . .
preaks - - 60 - 6 KK 1,900
Locker room ~ - BL ~% hk WW 3 00
=? 480 Saxe) §1,800



pe

pa . [ .

within the wart.even. _
- & Ydentification of the work activity, ‘hess sector operetions, Push

" senoveny, fasricetial, dacontentnation, fuud plent operation, eetel mi -
chintng, wot ohaeistry procesies, stc., ui the eusoctated expmuure .

levels for the uosker grouse of cancer.
Ss. Ranges for exthene! eqincure, sxaretion vutes far tntemeh exposure

end singis or multiale ‘exposure to toxics with or without sedtation.
& Identification of ereft ox sccupstional work groups us in 5 above,
© ait Sete er
Ghenical Eoxwpany O14
es Reeliminery taping GF JoE Histortes has boon acocplivhed to
provide for # foster of 3,220 personnel (eppradeately 562 Poblo~

dp) currently this fa being seucrked on 6 susIt avele to incisds :
“Antes inforautin on the estraten Plant, Weldosi Springs wid fein:

ctearly es poseitia in thats . ;
& ae nce ncnuiattan tneiuden xia grup uh ware es

posed ta selativaly high dosse of exbertal xeittgtion fepe the Ra -

content of tig pitchilende aves being prosennds omted wie 6

were corried over to tha Wakdon Sesings tieretdaha -
Tn das meslage FasiSity iestinid fooar sapanuren t= état

“(m dante than Stowe. of Destzshen, but else Snakised handling ed. -

ptonessing of Thesis Gress sxiditionally, processing included auch -

tude harerde os eipdsutes to HCL ulate, Wy Ut, Axens efit dvi

riety of cthes solvents used ‘in tha’ extrantion. progedi. - a

a. A mmter of the HOt Hein Plant ctimicel paysonnel who Gera cle

go essoclated with the tetel effort from time to tine axe wht 2s

peadily identifiehle. The former director of Health end Eefety

for HOd ust contented end retained to enaure transfer of e1t of

the relevan$ health physios date ts Osk Ridgs. ALI of the fob ss-

signnent date and related exposure dats have been fraught to Gsk

Ridge where it hes tesn reworked end propered: fo keypunoh and

txensfer ta tepe when funds becond avallebie, Fron thede records

4+ was-found thet all of the University of Rochester date hed bear l

. a


e

Hallinakeodt Chenicel Yorks have been pertielly converted te tapes housver,
the selevent dete for rediation-exposure and @qasurs to toxica se well as
identsficeticn cf ths exposed ys. no-exposed population eva froceplute, The
HCH xecords ware all retrieved during. FY7% end prepared for keypunahing and
teping through 2585 (NGS sloseout}. ‘The NLO records ave clan incoepiete as
shave and hava not bean ubpduted aince 1967 due to funding linttetionss these
 shoulct alea receive consideration for completion during FV76.

c. Nora than $,009 amployses of the Momante Gsmpeny's Mound Labovetiry aru
elas baing protemsad.and the sane problem exists uith tespec’ te records”
comlation a¢. outlined in 8 end & shove. A breckout of the restinda dite te
be nompleted follow:

1 ‘External sedtetton records Cavetlehie from contrecter oy 450 ab

ohvas>.. an an .

“B. Entertial dries .
ae "atowoesey, dria it teres oP-caretion eeta/ 2% nt, fot
dienuctides of Sonosin (in wowo osten these data muat.be weiteied
aince tha unite glved are {i terms of macs /nmtt. voles exerated |
and must be gurrectad for epeeitte atpha anttvtty)<
bh. whole. body cutting resuite. -

3. ree wa sce ome for at yas of euteient to

provides © Oo 7
& History of Job changer. oO,

b Identification uth sativity ar work incetton. wo
3 -Tdantéfieation by scvunstdonal grouis. a .
a Xdentificntion by riak groups, ties, "Risk," spatial Rak®

and “fis Risk® populations.
4, Envixormental date keyed to Lucation, activity and/or suniviaety

code,-

+ Se Othee. atewan factors, 1.6.5 Trituatintel Hygiene data.

B, Accomplishment of the above perntter
1. Idenbiflestion of individual at rink, the riek fscters subjected
$0, i.9.- radiation (internal and-skternel), exposure ta toxicants and
sultiple exposures such 03 exposure to etrass fectet 1, Le®ey, sta. .
2. Fleomaan Of ttm individiet Sn hte work emvixorment tierouohous his
anployment history.
3. Characterization of tha work environments this includes expasure to

penetrating radiation, internal aeitters, toxics, sta., snd quantifies
the med, sini and wedien values for the various sir concentrations

Ge


That eian if out study of Henfurd ware to prove constée ‘
Sively no edverss effects, it would be unverrented atth

ated exposures in all other AES plents.
The renommandation for the extension of the study te fnalaie 5
anany of the exployate of the ACC aontreators ot possinls, 15 Sat
eerely to endatge th study pomulation, but ts branon she watt
ilaity of ctrometences under uiioh radiation imy fave effects
Rot otherwise cbsurved. The woxt ‘nporbant coneideration for thts
ge tha realization thet our only event to ensure curaciess of 4
ciuding ali thé radiation thet individuals in the study hive Rails
: fing in which thess anpoyees way have perbicinated. Ty
. 6 protien arene within the aitating progtete perteining to the HS

study budyet on en enriustl cust bests. | . ve
pv Tebel 1éfeting encumdative dase fron ell ‘sources, ioe.4/ farm
or enpinyers, aff site (OAGA texts, #t0-). significant tierepedtic..
dajjes, oe the experience sven betwen installations of 2 ingle
eontrector ware not avetiable. ‘Agditionalty, records of carly.
contractors uhene sissions ware shsoched by enother ere in 8 rune :

ta the.

bar of casas einply nab avetlebie. For exemple, Y-12, seacrds com-.
menca in 1950, wine records of th earlier contractar, Temsssss -
Eastean Corperation, ere nat available. Where posible, such eF
#4 ORNL, tha records for UCG-NO end its predecessor contractors
wera conpletely seworked and updated through study fumes and prom -

gransing,
ake



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D.. and associated Sepes.

ipighte-Patterson ALF Force Base end. partly from Reynolds Electric Comeny
which 1% 26 hoped with perait identification of gRoA-Cantrantor per
with their test exposure seacrds. Thess data wild ba tested curing FY7S ©
of dose for the mpesed populstions.

effects on ranking

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$359 ragords initislly wetohed

-y 2,238 estimated additions
yL,2i5 sosrected. te Socteal Seaurtty timber from
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Qeosusa of thetic exposure to uxternel radiation, 1¢ would-be wesaxrented, uith
e the information ug now have, to sonclude thet’ siployses were adveresly effects -
sd by radiation at Hanford. We wish ta exphasize that aven if the Hsnford study
+ wena te prove conclusively that no large scsie adverse affects exizted, 1% waka
be-urwerrented with presently evetlefie insights, to genarelize such Casings 42
_ apply 4p all fores of fonizing sadiation in alt other AbD plants. an
. In subeuquent anslysse, the nonecadietion occupationss exbosund to industrt~
el chumfcsls and the eosfo-comonio varieties must be conaiderdd, in ony abane
quent interpratetion of radiation pradicnte eri binleyicel effects, .
Further, the latent period may ba.criticn! tc the stety end chsuevetion®
ult = longer ported of yeure may alter the prasent putters of Findingss nS
36 ta eten Sxpartent that thd project be subjected to the edvarast mevieg by..
the most aritiod experta in the countey, te idimblfy. any Bis in the dete, Wits
+ to any coneldardtion of pibiicatiod of any of tha’ Findings of thie stulye

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. . left out of the original data since the employes roster uss Tur-
. nished: to the Soctel Scourity Administration; snd « subesquant

> “K ceerch for deaths feruarded +0 the states. A totel of 333 death
-‘eertifiaates have been received to date. Frou these ‘some 81 ern
cur sites, specific hiecd dyscresia sad brain tuuor cusses have
buen tdentified, Currently we are trying to identify these- ceases
“with the related personnal exoeures and place of work oF ondups~
tional groupe invelved, ainos it is felt that the multisie mae
aurg pabentiel Gintertel end external radistion) far the original
Destrehen Pleht group ili be wmong the highest utehin the inden
try.

2. Waéionel Land of ohio (HLD)° .
& A gontar comprising $,326 parconnel hes tesn prepared covering:
the work-pietartes of tide groin Cetus 1,220 mene iqutze! wcll,
« tions? followup). ° . *
b. The meiated sudiatten doer dete for external ond tne re
Siation exposure uns furnished, comlats on tape theaugtt 19675 list

. hes neither teen proof tested nor updated,

The exposures at this facility have lergely been susceiated with rala~

tively figh ‘ (reeply 160% cubrent MPO.) sondenteations af uraniae- desks.

3. ‘Files for other sary, Cand wills end pragasaing fans ttiedy: 228-5

tnd Ser Caburctosy have eon becight tapestar far review and poustile

Peutivk, Also of intevest usa the, Jooating of tlie vecurds af farmct_Ok

Ridge euployees invalved fn. the, ANP project under tha Fatwantid Engine
end Aircraft Company atit General Electric Company. Thasa aptivities :

ware ster transferred to Cincinnatt, Otdo end mbsequently whut ddim:
Glenning of the racoria will perait on adtessment te be made et
tu how many af the UCC-ND populetion hed ¢ previeus work expusure et
these sites since they ware all efther intimately associated ulth the
Dek Ridge efforts or were actually located there.

t fF, Ous to the lack of specific guidsnas on the content sf radistion dose
and the related reonrds such am work Afataries, scouretion groqss, work oo-
tivities, taxto expusurs end the like ab tha request of Headquarters, Ser-

” wantoun, generel piquosed stenderds were uutmitted to the oparaticnal safety
division, «(Gee Appendix A.) Recommendation was made thet sccumilefien enti
recording of bese data, at, least on a prospactive basis, to to anherae the
preeent AEC contracter systems since with minor exception all of thase date .

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support sitharized to songlets this work at ot estiuated cast
s¥ $23,009 fron FYIS budget, by the eloss of thim Fiscel Yesr.
fark wem cowuncad during the week of February 24, 1975. . ape
an conplation of the above UST+fD midified router as verified
on February 28, 1975 vill be within epproxtuately 5K of total
cudplatesesss the breskiioun by installations ia as folioumt
GRA. epproximsitety 16,000 employees 1% diviation
SS 34,636 sl se id
waz” A: Sh aie
Totel VODMO, sopremientely 122,680 , :

4) OF @ tutel of epproximately 22,000 deatie, 16,712 have
tean fotuatded fo the states os of tha first quipted YTS,

tinae for, warty 11,000 death usrthflostes have bean seturnitds”..

ot neatly 60% ef the total.

9) Gangeraton af the relevent jet axeignment siumti, tebat

exposure records and steogistad environmental famtais fox tid

wagor “eink evens of ROY operations wilt ba surdusd within

RMuttetions of the funis austiebia. :

e ©} Siesta. riak ur oooupettandd grows wlth bath sieghe ef
. cunts expomure pohertints eon i ee in

/ o . Agoardingly, work loading hes been resrrenged wid clerical
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$F teecchchdcs or on estate] cqmnabtorn ant ceitinteay
anual for the LOCWD fextitties has imen eppraved end work
tes someiteied to compli aT af the pullers poe Smt :

. UI. summary
\ | The Pasnibiiity etega few bon passed end us'ate now probing, on a vary Lime

ited sosts,,the question of the Lislogtcal effects of ids tevek tentzkng recien
tion,
- ‘Tha nattonsl nature ond inportanas of thts question, et indowd tha dolibaré
etions uider consideraiten by the SRP masters here this uaek, requives that eve
ery affort be made, tiet every weans be explored, to endura that wa do not unite -
off this lest omertunity to guin direct inforaution on the radiation effeats on
man by falling to essign te the study the high pricrtty in support thet 4t earkte.
e Although indications of prelininary findings ulthin the. constraints of the
present date say indiceta no gross effect on large numbers of uarkers at Hanford.

ote.