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Forwards Curriculum Vitae of J Candler Re M Aamodt Request to Check Medical Records & Vital Statistics of Cases of Cancer Identified in Study of Few Small Populations Living on Ridges Near TMI

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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO MEDICAL CENTER 4300 EAST NINTH AVENUE oENvEa, cotonADo sono

.,, o g 10 Sept.1984 SEPARTMENT OF PREVENTIVE MEO; CINE JOHN C. CoSS. ALD ALP.N.

AND COMPREMENSIVE HEALTH CARE E AND itMAN Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Dr.Palladino,

u-Marjorie Aamodt of Coatsville, PA, asked me to send you a

copy of my curriculum vitae in connection with her request that:I be the one to check the medical records and vital statistics of-the. cases of cancer which were identified in her study of a few small populations living on ridges near Three Mile Island.

I would be.able to spend a few days doing this (Sept. 21 through 24) if you think that would be time eriough at least for the pre 14=ing work. I could also spend a few days on this Oct. 2.5 through 29' if necessary. Other than these few days my schedule is pretty well filled this Fall, but I might be able to get some time in January,1985 I presume that the NRC would pay my expenses and normal consulting fees ($500 Per day) for this work.

I encisoe a copy of my c.v. and the Project Summary of my recent study of plutonium burdens in people living around Rocky Flats, 00, which I directed, on contract with the U.S. EPA.

Since I have just retired from teaching here at the Medical School, I may be hard to reach during the next few weeks as we-move to:Few Mexico.

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Our address there will be PO Box 1403, Corrales, NM 87048, and the phone;_

thereis(505)898-8272.

Yours siricerely, c O hl John C. Cobb, MD, MPH Professor Emeritus kDR 6 850327 F

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CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA:

i COBB, John Candler Name:

Home Address:

4824 East Sixth Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80202 Phone:

(303) 333-4737 Date of Birth:

8 July 1919 Place:

Boston, Massachusetts Marital Status:

Married (Holly Imlay-Franchot):22 July 1946 r

Four children Present Position:

Professor of Preventive Medicine, Conmunity Health.

University of Colorado Health ~ Sciences Center 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80262 Phone:

(303)394-5177 EDUCATION-DEGREES:

1941 - Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Harvard University (Astronony, cum laude)

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1948.- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Harvard Univer::ity 1954 - Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Johns Hcpkins University (School of Hygiene and Public Health, in Maternal and Child Health MCH)

AWARDS.AND HONORS:

1979 - Colorado Public Health Association, Florence Sabin Award (for outstanding contributions to public health) 1980 - American Friends Service Committee, Colorac'o Area Committee -

Jack Gore Memorial Peace Award (for contributions to the.cause of world peace)

CERTIFICATION AND' LICENSURE:

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Diplomate National Board of Medical Examiners 194E -

Fellow American Public Health Association 1955 Dip 1'omate American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 1961 Licensed to Practice Medicine in Connecticut, Maryland, New Mexico r.

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EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

1941-42 Friends Service Comittee (malaria control work) Mexico 1942-44 American Field Service (ambulance driver) Syria North Africa, Italy 1948-49 Intern in Pediatrics, Yale New Haven Hospital 1949-50 Fellow in Pediatrics, Yale New Haven Hospital 1950-51 Jr. Assistant Resident in Psychiatry, Yale Psychiatric Clinic 1951-54 Instructor, Maternal & Child Health, Johns Hopkins University, Scho'o1 of. Hygiene and Public Health 1951-56 Instructor, Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School;of Medicine 1952-56 Instructor, Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins. School. of Medicine 1954-56 Assistant Professor MCH, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene 1956-60 Area Consultant in MCH, U. S. Public Health Service, Division of Indian Health, Albuquerque Area Office 1960-64 Director, Medical Social Research Project, Lahore, Pakistan, with Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and University of.the Panjab, supported by Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation through the Population Council

- 1965-Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine 1966-73 Chaiman, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine 1969-70 Short-tem consultant for WHO in Indonesia on Strengthening Health Services (M.C.H. and F.P.) (3 months) j 1972-73 Short-term consultant for WHO in Western Pacif.ic-Region- (Philippines,--

t Korea, Vietr.am, Fiji, etc.) on Family Health Education;(6 months)

' 1977-78 Cbnsultant to Project Hope, Rural Health Program-in.Tunisf a-(1-month). --

.1979 Consultant to Ministry of Health, Government of Togo-(Family Health i

Training) (3 months) 1980-81 Acting Chaiman, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine (4 months) 1975-82 Principal Investigator in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Contract to study human plutonium burdens in people.who have lived i

near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant

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EXTRA-CURRICULAR / HEALTH-RELATED ACTIVITIES - 1966-1982 Denver City and County:

1968-69 Board Member, Central Area Health Planning Association 1969 Chairman, Task Force for Preparing 314(b) Agency Grant Application 1969-72 Chairman, Commission on Public Health of Denver Medical Society 1981-Member, Ethics Comittee, Denver Medical Society State and Regional:

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1966-68 Board Member, Planned Parenthood Association of Colorado 1966-69 Member, Regional Advisory Group, Colorado-Wyoming Regional Medical Program 1967-70 Board Member, Colorado Public Health AssociaHon' 1968-69 Member and Chairman, Committee on Health Services for the Poor of Regional Medical Program 1969-71 Member, Task Force on Prevention for State Comprehensive Health Planning Council 1969-73 Executive Comittee, Colorado Area Office of American. Friends Service Comittee 1970 Member, Program Committee for Colorado Interaction Conference on Medical Care, sponsored by Medical Society, UCHSC, Regional Medical Program and Denver Department of Health and Hospitals 1970 Member, President's Comission on Environmental Studies of the Univer-

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sity of Colorado 1970-71 Member, CMaittee on Comunicable Disease, Colorado Medical Society 1970-75 Member, University of Colorado Environmenta' ~ Council-l 1970-75 Member, Environmental Council, University ofRolorado" -

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1973-80 Member, Governor's Scientific Advisory Coun'cil, Colorado

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1974 Member, Eisenhower Tunnel Carbon Monoxide Standards Advisory Comittee

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1974-75 Member, Governor Lam and Congressman Hirth's Task Force on Rocky Flats Plutonium Plant 1976 Member, Governor's Task Force on Uranium Enrichment P.lant 1976-79 Co=issioner, Air Pollution Control Commission of Colorado 1977 Member, Governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Yransportation

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2-1 Extra-Curricular / Health-Related Activities, Continued 1977-78 Me6ber of AAAS Seminar Group on Air Pollution 1978-Member of Governor's Task Force on Health Effects of Air Pollution 1978-Member, Air Quality Policy Comittee Denver Regional Council of Governments 1978-Board Member, ROMCOE Center for Environmental Problem Solving 1978-Board Member, Mountain Bicyclists Association 1978-Board Member, Colorado Coalition for Full Employment.

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1979-Member, American Friends Service Comittee Avisory Group on Rocky d

Flats / Nuclear Weapons Project 1980-Coordinator of Ethics Seminars at University Health, Sciences Center National:

1965-75 Member, National Comittee on Indian Health' of the Association on American Indian Affairs 1967-69 Member, Comprehensive Health Planning, Training and Studies Review Committee for U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Comprehensive Health Planning 1971-73 Member, National Medical Comittee, Planned Parenthood /World Population 1972-73 Executive Comittee Member, American Association' of Planned Parenthood Physicians 1972-73 President, American Association of Planned Pa'ren~thood Physicians-1972-73 Board Member, Planned Parenthood Federation ~ ~o~f. Kmer.ica

.1978. - Consultant, National Inst tute of Occupatio'n'al: Health' and Safety on.

i Naval Shipyards / Nuclear Submarine Studies 1 :

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1981-Advisory Council,of Coalition for ResponsibTe' Genetic Research

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1982-Member, Advisory Group on Three-Mile-Island Nuclear Accident, Public-Health Fund

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1968-70 American Friends Service Comittee, Divisio~n of ' International Services.

Family Planning Comittee Member and Member of Working Party to prepare report, "Who Shall Live? Man's Control over Birth and Death."

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Extra-Curricular / Health-Related Activities, Continued Member, International Solar Energy Society (since 1958) 1970 Member, W10 Scientific Group on Advances in Research (Clinical Experience with Methods of Fertility Regulation) Geneva j

1979-Member, Physicians for Social Responsibility 1980 Medical Consultant to Executive Council on Fore.ign Diplomats.

Grand Canyon Conference (July 1980)

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PU3I.ICATIONS Sv: JOHN CANDLIR CO33. M.D.. M.P.E.

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"~fne Detection of Beta-Radiation by Photographic Film," with A. K. Solomon, Review of Scientifie Inst usents, Vol.19, pp: 414-447.. July, 1948 "Radicautograph Technique With Carbon 14," vi-1 A. K. Solomon and A. M.

MacDonald, Science, Vol.107, pp: 550-552, May, 1948

" Stripping Film Technic for Radioau:ographs," with A. M. MacDonald', A. K.

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Solomon and D. Steinberg, ?ree. Soc. Exoer. Biol. and Med., Vol. 72, -

pp: 117-121, October, 1949

" paroxysmal Fussing in Infancy, Some:imes Called ' Colic',"-vith -Morris.

Wessel, Edith 3. Jackson, George S. Harris, Jr., and Ann C..De:wiler.

r New Eaven, ?ediatries, Vol.14, No. 5, pp:421-435,1954;

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" Family Tension as a Cause of Colic in Infants " American Academy of P dia-e

.tries Proceedings, Colic in Infants, Fediatries, Vol. 18 No. 5 pp: 835-836, November, 1956

" Navajo Child Health Level Mirrors Tribe Future," Publie Realth Reoorts,

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Vol. 73, No. 3, March,1958 (abstract)

" Precocity of African Children," Pediatries, Vol. 21, pp: 867,1958 (letter)

Emotional P-oble=s of Indian Students in Boardine Schools, Report of Seminar Sponsored by U.S.P.E.S., Division of Indian Heaich, N.I.M.H., and New Mexico Department of Public Health, Published by New Mexico Departman:

of Public Health, Albuquerque, K. M., 66 pages,1960 (J.C. Cobb - editor)

" Trachoma Among Southwes tern Indians," with C. R. Dawson, J.A.LA., Vol.175, No. 5, Feb. 4, 1961 "Aspectos de Salud Publica de la Mortalidad Infantil," with R.

F.. Goddard and S. J. Leland, Boletir. de la Oficins Sanitaria Panamericana, vol._51,.

pp: 130-144, August, 1961 "Our ' Vanishing Americans '," Earvard Medical Alu=ni. Bullerin, Summer,- 1961

Some. Practical Considerations-of Economy and Efficiency:in Infant Feeding,".

Report of the Joint Committee on Econo =y and Efficlency;in the. Prepa

_ ra: ion of_Infan: Feeding, (J. C. Cobb - member), American Public Hehlth. -

Associa tion, A.'J.?.E., Vol. 52, pp:125-142, 1962..

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"1he Population Problem and Family Planning in Pakistan," with. H. L. Rau-led

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... Journal of the Pakistan Acade=v for Villace Develeoment, --

No. 1, pp: 1-11, July, 1962 "A Preliminary Report on the Usa of Oral Con::acep:ive-Pills Synchroni=ed With the Phases of the Moon," with N. A. Shah, published in Report of.

I.P.P.F. Conference, Singapore,1963, Ixcerpta Medica, Amsterdam, n-terna:ional Congress Series No. 72, pp: 394-398, 19.64 e

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7 PU3LICATIONS BY:

JOHN' CANDLER COB 3, M.D., M.P.H...

"Some Problems of De=ographic Measu e=en in Fa=ily Planning Research in the Punj ab," with J.F. Kantner,' Pomulatien Index, Vol. 29, p. 233 "The Social Implica:icns of Genetics with Special Reference to Pakistan,"

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Mother and Child, Vol. 2, No.1, pp:5-9, Jan.1964 Pakistan:

"The Medical Social Resea ch Project at Lulliani," Studies in F

'ly Planning, No. 8, pp:11-16, October,1965

," Oral Contraceptive Program Synchroni:ed With Moon Phase," Fertility and -

5:erHirv, Vol. 17, pp:559-567, July-August, 1966.

" Technology is Not Magic," Harvard Medical Alu=ni Eulletin, pp:8-9, Spring, 1967

" Abortions in Colorado 1967-1969," Advances in Planned Parenthood, Vol, y, Excerp:a Medica International Congress Series No. 207, pp:186-189,1970 Whb inall Live?

Man's Cent ol Over Bi-th and Death, A report (with others of the working party) to the American Friends Service Co ittee, Hill and Wang,1970 - also translated into Spanish, "Quienes Viviran?" and published in Latin America, 1972 Methods of Fe-tility Rerulation:

Advances in Research and Clinical ExDerience, h:10 Technical Repor: Series No. 475, 1971 (wi-Ji other memoers of scientific group convened in Geneva, DecerJoer,1970)

Recort on the Develo ment of Education and Info nation Mate-ials on F= -ily Health, World Health Organization, KPRO, Manila, 1972, "Non-procreative Sexuality as an Alternative to Contraception," Advances in Planned Parenthood, Vol. VIII, Exce p:a Medica International Cong ess Series No. 271, pp: 67-74, 1973 Reno-: on the Rerional Seminar on the Role of Health Education in Family ~

Plannin g, World Health Organi:stion, KPRC, Ma 111a,1973

" Standards for Air Pollutants for Denver" and " Health. Effects of Carbon.

Monoxide and Photocherleal Oxidant Air Pollution in Denver" - Chapters -.

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in monograph, Carbon Monoxide and the Pecule of Denver, Miriam Orleans -

and Gilbert White, Eds.

The University of Colorado IBS publicatics, ~.[ ~ "~~

1974.

Chapter on " Preventive Medicine and Public Health" (with Lee Kaiser) in Interdisciolinary Envi-onmental Arr caches, U ton and Henning Eds.,

Educational Media Press, California, 1974 Rever and Recommendations ef the Eisenhower Tunnel Carbon Monoxide Standards Advisory Co=ittee, Colorado Depart =ent of Her.lth, August 28, 1974 Medical Con:=ittee.._Repor: (with A-thur Robinson and Edward Gillette) of the Lamm-Wirth Task Force on Rocky Flats Plutonium Plant Preliminary Report,'

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Colorado State Department of Health, February 10, 1975

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1 FU3LICATIONS BY:

JOFC: CANDIER COBE, M.D., M.P.H.

Fins.1 Report - Lar:=-h'irth Task Force on Rocky Flats, October 1,1975

" Rec uiting The Unco:mitted Leader for F*-ily Planning" with Fbulding, T.S. 5 Cortese, C.F.

The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 42,

p. 505,1975 (Alan Gut :acher Mesoria.1 1ssue)

"Linits. o Hu=an Adaptability" published in The Future o'f Hunan Settlements in the Rocky Mountain West Vail Sy=posiu=/Six - T.J. Minger Ed.,1977._ _

"The Sun: rap Insolator/ Insulator" Proceedings of the Solar Cooling and Hez:ing Forum, Univ. of Miami, 13 December 1976, T.N...Ve:iroglu, Ed.,1978,_ m Pa-ticipation in Governor's Task Force on the Health Effects of Air Pollution '

in Colorado, R. Mitchell, Chairman - Reper: issued July 1978.

Modified version published by Mitchell et al, J.A.M.A. 242, p.1163-8,1979 Report to EPA,

t -f:^ ;1 ;;;d fe; pd!i:=Lu, " Plutonium in Human Tissues Related to Smoking, Age, Residence near Rocky Flats and Easte:n Colorado."

(This is the report of our research work 1975-1982.) ~

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RESPONSE SHEET T0:

SAMUEL J. CHILK, SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION FROM:

COMMISSIONER ASSELSTINE

SUBJECT:

SECY-84-322A - AAMODT MOTION FOR INVESTIGATION OF RADIOACTIVE RELEASES DURING THE TMI-2 ACCIDENT APPROVED DISAPPROVED ABSTAIN NOT PARTICIPATING REQUEST DISCUSSION COMMENTS:

Options:

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Proceed with order as recommended in SE'CY-84-322.

B.

Issue proposed memorandum seeking additional information from staff.

C.

Other.

Explain:

I approve the staff's proposal in the EDO's August 31, 1984 memorandum to request a review by the Center for Disease Control.

SIGNAIURb

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SECRETARIAT NOTE:

PLEASE ALSO RESPOND TO AND/0R COMMENT ON OGC/0PE MEMORANDUM IF ONE HAS BEEN ISSUED ON THIS PAPER.

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& m, T HE P ENNSYLVANI A S T ATE U NIVERSITY THE CAPITOL CAMPUS MIDDLETOWN. PENNSYLVANIA 17057 (717) 236-8939 November 12, 1984 Dr. Nunzio Palladino Chairman Nuclear Regulatory.Cgmmi_ssion Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Palladino,

For the past several years I have been study-ing the_ spatial distribution of cause of death for the ha M pannc:vivania using the~ statistics provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

The technique used is described in the enclosed paper which was pre-sented at the International Congress on Technology and Technology Exchange meeting in Pittsburgh during October of this year.

I have also discussed some of my findings with Dr. Harkness at University Park.

The report (copy enclosed) in the Sunday Nov.

lith Sunday Patriot News referred to the fact that the Aamodts of Coat's'ville were scheduled to have a meeting with the NRC which did not come off.

This situation prompted me to write this letter to you.

I'believe there is much vork to be done in the area of health statistics as my findings suggest, and I believe that my colleagues and I at Capitol Campus have the expertise to design and complete a commissioned study.

You must long for the old days when you were Dean of the College of Engineering at Penn State and in-CHA thAN-RE.C3 volved with the Faculty Senate, and when a major issue consisted of "What degree of Autonomy should be granted to Capitol Campus?"

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you are handling a difficult situation and we.wish you well.

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412.1 Abst-met F1-dbes A great deal of attention has been focused on the The infor=ation related to' infant deaths per thou.

Southcentral Pennsylvania region since the occurence of sand live births for 1978 and 1980 is summarised in I*hl* 1*

the nuclear accident at Three Kile Island Hectricity Power nenarating Plant in March of 1979. Today there both at the.05 level of sig=1ricance and other probab-is continuing discussion of the effects of this acci-111 ties whien were considered not significant. The =a=s dont on ths population and the environment. The prob.

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cf several phenomena at differsnt points in time.

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of the nuclear accident. at Three Mile Island Generating rates are not noted. an Penneytvanta counties are consid-Plant in March of 1979. "During this period of the ao-cident at TMI (March 23th to April 7th,1979), the c curas Ezrta:Inenc r:m:r:caur : tars principal radioactive materials released {ere Ionon-133 and Zenon-135 plus traces of Iodine-131."

Today there sarts or arants/toco :.:ve itsras is continuing discussion of the effects of this acci-dont on the populatien and envirennent. As a result, I decided to take a preliminaz/ look at the health sta-tistics for the State of Pennsylvania that dealt with caserved Seatas t.aes raan observed :eatas creater naa infant mortality for tno year i==ediately preceding the no Expected Me.

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,gu,4,3,gg, Department of Health' for all counties, with soecial emphasis placed on Region IV.

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different transition patterns that are occurring.

. In adapting this method, probability maps were constructed showing the probability of the incidence of We find Bradfoni and Bucks Counties experienced a infant sortality per thousand live births in Pennsyl-below annge death rats per thousand infants while Al-vania assuming that the incidence was the same for an' legheny, Wasmgton, Erie, Crawford, Ph41=A-1%4 =,

counties. The Poisson districution was used for calcup-Chester and Jefferson Counties have above average death lating the probability of the given number of infant rates for this period. In 1980 Bucks County continued deaths per 1000 live births for each county. Since the to have a below anrage death rate for infants while probability of occurrence of an infant death was ron-Bradford had moved up to average. Chester had moved sonably small, on an aurage of about 11 per thousand from experiencing an above average infant death rate and live births, the model appsared realistic. Similar Delaware had moved from aversgo to below average. Craw-asps were constructed for deaths from cancer, leukemia ford had moved from above average in 1978 to average in and hypertension.

1980 and so had Jefferson County. Hovent Columbia and The maps have three classificationst significant-tauphin Counties have moved from experiencing an average infant death rste per thousand to one that is signifi-ly below avenge deaths eer 1000 live birthshsignifi-cantly above average deaths per 1000 lire bi ha both canti above average. The following probability maps ght these facts.

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tics and includes Dauphin County, in unich Three !!1le lation to the other counties, all other tune causes of Island is located, were also constructed. Findings for iesth shov significant rises over the period consider-ed.

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Ps. nmater 11.1984-A5 Wtshingten watch j

TMI foe calls NRC schmuck ~s

'. By MICE ROOD Waablagton Bureas WASHINGTON - The Nucle-at Regulatory Comminalon can-celed at the last minute a meeting

last weak on contentions that can-cer deaths have been much higher

'than state averages in small areas

' west r.nd northwest of'the Three MileIsland tJnit 2 nuclear plant.

Norman and Majorie Aamodt of Coatesville, Pa., made the claims to the NRC on Aug.15.

Commissioners discussed then whether or not they should com-mission an M;z_^--i expert to look at what the Aamodta called their " scientific study." The

- - Aamodta, who are officially recog-nized as intervenors la the TMI.

Unit 1 restart' case, have made some of the most controversial charges since the Unit 2 nuclear accidentin 1979.

In addition to alleging dispro-portionately high cancer deaths i

and apparent radiation effect symptoms among a small sample of people !!ving near the plant,the Aamodts claimed the NRC the state and General Public Utilities Corp had"coveredup"findingsof high radiation readings after the Unit 2 accident in 1979. TMI is in Iendooderry Twp., near Middle-town, Pa.

NRC CHAIRMAN Nunzio Pal-ladino challenged the notion that state or federal officials had done

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such a thing. But Commlaaloner James Asselstine said the couple

" deserve a fair and thoughtful re-sponse andIthinkyou ought to get it."

Outraged after the meeting, Norman Aamodt said:

"Tve had great respect for the scientific community all my life.'

This is the first time Tve feltlike I was dealing with a bunch of

' schmucks.' "

eThe so-called schmucks were unable to decide upon a response Thursday morning. NRC Secre-tary SameelChilktold an medience waiting for a meeting that never rn.r m

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UNITED STATES P"

'1 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION h,

WASHINGTON D.C. 20555 e

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%,,,,,4 December 18, 1984 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY MEMORANDUM FOR:

Herzel H.E. Plaine, Gene

ounsel FROM:

Samuel J. Chilk, Secre ry C

SUBJECT:

STAFF REQUIREMENTS - AFP T PION / DISCUSSION AND VOTE, 10:00 A.M., TyyRSy4Y, DECEMBER 13, 1984, COMMISSIONERS' COMERE NCE ROOM, D.C.

OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE)

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SECY-84-322/322A - Aamodt Motion for Investigation of Radioactive Releases During the TMI-2 Accident The Commission, by a vote of 3-2* (with Commissioner Bernthal approving in part and disapproving in part and Commissioner Asselstine disapproving), approved an order denying a June 21, 1984 motion by the Aamodt's asking that the Commission investi-I gate (a) the circumstances surrounding alleged falsification of radioactive emirsion data in the early days of the TMI-2 accident and (b) alleged health effects resulting from the accident.

Commissioners Asselstine and Bernthal provided separate views which were included in the order.

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Chairman Palladino Commissioner Roberts commissioner Asselstine Commissioner Bernthal Commissioner Zech Commission Staff Offices EDO PDR - Advance DCS - 016 Phillips

• Section 201 of the Energy Reorganization Act, 42 U.S.C.

Section 5841, provides that action of the Commission shall be determined by a " majority vote of the members present."

Commissioner Zech was not present when this item was affirmed.

Commissioner Asselstine did not participate in order to allow l

the will of the majority to prevail.

Accordingly, the formal l

vote of the Commission was 2-1 in favor of the decision.

Commissioner Zech, however, had previously indicated that he l

would approve this paper and had he been present he would have affirmed his prior vote.

Commissioner Asselstine had previously l

indicated his disapproval and he would have affirmed his vote had he participated.

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