A cancer may occur at any dose of ionizing radiation. The Atomic Energy Control Board has been trying for several years, without success, to get SRB to finalize and implement an acceptable environmental monitoring program. CCRC has been requesting such a monitoring program since 1991. Unwilling to wait any longer, our group has collected some vegetation samples and paid for them to be analyzed by two independent laboratories. The results show a high level of contamination immediately adjacent to the plant, and approximately 800 meters downwind.
Experts differ as to how much tritium is safe to discharge into a populated environment.
Based on the observation that there is no safe level of exposure to radiation, we side with the experts who suggest tritium emissions should be reduced to zero. These experts include the International Joint Commission on great Lakes Water Quality and Dr. Rosalie Bertell, President of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health. We have written to SRB General Manager Stephane Levesque to request that SRB immediately install such a device. Your copy of this letter is enclosed. We have also contacted the Atomic Energy Control Board requesting that pollution control be addressed at the upcoming relicensing hearing for SRB in December if the company does not voluntarily install pollution control equipment before then.