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"and Charley perhaps could fill us in on exposures at Three Mile Island"

There was general public concern about the plume from Three Mile Island as it spread up the Eastern seaboard but the readings were relatively low. Even in the immediate plant area, it's been difficult to sort out the regional impact, the higher than expected cancers, spontaneous abortions, and mutations. The incidence rates were very low and readily debated by statisticians without resolution. That's the good news. I expect this will not be the case in Japan.

I don't remember any excessive radiation exposures for the plant workers, and we were certainly expecting them at the time and would have made use of them in our "educational fact sheets." It's a good question for anyone who has access to long term health studies of those plant workers.

Charley Noble