[ RadSafe ] markey-connection between infant mortality and nu kes

[Flood, John]

-----Original Message-----
From: Norm Cohen [mailto:ncohen12 at comcast.net] 
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] markey-connection between infant mortality and nu
kes

Answers below in the dashes -----

> --- Both. When reading the annual effluent reports, at least the ones from

> PSEG (Salem/Hope Creek) and from Exelon (Oyster), its clear that there is

> alot of estimating and guessing
> going on.

What quantities are expressed as estimates and guesses?

> I have been told that effluent numbers went down after TMI

What is the point of this statement?

> and I've been told that not all effluent releases are caught and measured.

Do you mean that not all of a release is analyzed, or that some releases are
not monitored at all?

>      Even so, the amount of documented sr90 in the reports is small. ---

Wouldn't that be the objective of the operator?  They spent a lot of time
and money to install reactor water cleanup systems, and then spend a lot of
time and money maintaining them, solely for the purpose of NOT releasing
radioactive material in plant effluents.  That's how it's supposed to work.

Bob Flood
Nevada Test Site