Commenting on USNRC Environmental Impact Statements

[mark.hogue@SRS.GOV]

I'm interested in commenting on a recent NRC Environmental Impact Statement (released for public comment) and would like input from Radsafe on the following:


The EIS I'm looking at is 

"Environmental Impact

Statement on the

Construction and

Operation of a Mixed Oxide

Fuel Fabrication Facility at

the Savannah River Site,

South Carolina" 


It has the number NUREG-1767.


It includes the following note: "c: Latent cancer fatalities are calculated by multiplying dose by the Federal Guidance Report 24

(FGR) 13 health risk conversion factor of 0.06 fatal cancer per person-Sv (6 × 10-4 fatal cancer per person- 25

rem) (Eckerman et al. 1999)."


The question is this: Is the process of  calculating deaths in this fashion really a mandate to the NRC? I would think that in light of much discussion to the contrary, that a threshold value should be used.


Please, I am not trying to start a rant on LNT. If anyone can help me research this a bit, I would just like to make a helpful and useful comment to the NRC.


Mark G. Hogue, CHP

mark.hogue@srs.gov

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