6-37-60 FOREWORD CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Hon. CLINTON P. ANDERSON, Chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. DEAR SENATOR ANDERSON: The material contained in this volume has been assembled by the Special Radiation Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in preparation for public hearings on the subject of "Radiation Protection Criteria and Standards: Their Basis and Use." The hearings will be held during the period May 24 through June 3, 1960. In accordance with past practice, the scope of the hearings and selection of witnesses have been developed with the assistance of a steering committee representing all aspects of this complicated subject. A list of the steering committee members is attached to this letter. An outline of the subject matter of the hearing and general approach of the subcommittee is set forth in the introduction. This volume, which will be distributed in advance of the hearings to individuals and organizations scheduled to present oral testimony, and will be available to the general public, is intended to serve as a reference document and a starting point for the discussion of basic issues at the hearing sessions. Most of the individual witnesses invited to testify in person have submitted material for inclusion in this preprint. These statements appear in chapter 1, which also includes statements solicited from individuals who are not scheduled to present oral testimony. The Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Department of Defense have submitted detailed statements of their activities relating to radiation standards. These statements comprise chapters 4, 5, and 6, respectively. Special statements were prepared by the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory and the Air Force Special Weapons Center and appear as chapters 2 and 3, respectively. Other Federal agencies concerned with radiation standards have provided the material contained in chapter 7. Comments received from the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on related hearings conducted by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in 1959 constitute chapter 8 of this volume. Various recent reports and papers of particular relevance to the forthcoming hearings have been set forth in chapter 9 as a convenient reference for use by the Joint Committee and by witnesses presenting oral testimony at the hearings. A list of selected references prepared by the Atomic Energy Commission is included as chapter 10. Additional statements not received in time for inclusion in this volume will be inserted in the printed record of the hearings. It is hoped that the printing and distribution of the materials contained in this volume prior to the hearings will serve to increase the usefulness of the hearings and to underscore the importance of understanding the basic issues in the subject field of radiation protection criteria and standards. Sincerely yours, CHET HOLIFIELD, Chairman, Special Subcommittee on Radiation. Attachment: List of steering committee. STEERING COMMITTEE ON RADIATION PROTECTION CRITERIA AND STANDARDS: THEIR BASIS AND USE Dr. Allen V. Astin, Director, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. Dr. Charles L. Dunham, Director, Division of Biology and Medicine, U.S. Atomic Dr. Milton H. Feldman, Defense Atomic Support Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C. D. C. Fleckenstein, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y. Dr. Bentley Glass, Morgenthaler Laboratory for Biology, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Jack Healy, Hanford Laboratory Operations, GE-Hanford Atomic Products Operations, Richland, Wash. Dr. Duncan Á. Holaday, Sanitary Engineering Director, Chief, Occupation Health Field Station, U.S. Public Health Service, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, Alexandria, Va. Dr. Edwin P. Laug, Bureau of Biological and Physical Sciences, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C. Robert Lowenstein, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. W. A. McAdams, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y. Dr. C. R. McCullough, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. Dr. Russell Morgan, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Dr. H. M. Parker, Manager, Hanford Laboratory Operations, GE-Hanford Atomic Products Operations, Richland, Wash. Dr. Clinton C. Powell, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Walter Rodger, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill. Charles F. Schwan, Jr., Washington representative, Council of State Governments, Washington, D.C. Dr. Walter Selove, associate professor of physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. George Taylor, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C. Dr. Lauriston S. Taylor, Chief, Atomic and Radiation Division, U.S. Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. Dr. Paul Tompkins, U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, Hunters Point, San Francisco, Calif. Dr. Francis Weber, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C. Dr. Forrest Western, Division of Biology and Medicine, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. Chapter 1. Statements by private groups and individuals: Radiation Protection Criteria and Standards: Their Basis and Use, General Concepts and Procedures in Establishment of Health Stand- An Industrial Hygienist Views Radiation Protection Criteria, by Standards of Hygiene and the Proper Policies and Criteria in Radia- tion Protection, by R. R. Newell Radiation Protection Standards, by Russell H. Morgan. Fallout and Radiation Standards, by Walter Selove__ Radiation Protection Criteria and Standards: Their Basis and Use, Development and Administration of the New York State Radiation Radiation Protection Standards and "Costs," by J. W. Healy.. Statement on Radiation Protection Criteria and Standards, by Statement by J. F. Fairman (in relation to outline topic III-B, social and economic aspects of radiation protection___ Statement of Charles H. Weaver (on the implication of radiation protection policy for those developing the uses of atomic energy). Relationships Between Aerospace Nuclear Safety and NCRP and ICRP Standards, by Joseph A. Connor, Jr., and Donald M. Ross.. Radiation Exposure Associated With the Medical Use of X-rays and Gamma Beams, by Carl B. Braestrup__ Statement by R. G. McAllister (in relation to the American Standards Chapter 1. Statements by private groups and individuals-Continued Discussion submitted by G. Failla (primarily in relation to the basis of present recommendations on radiation protection limits). Comments on Radiation Protection Criteria, by Lauriston S. Taylor-- Radiation Hazards in Realistic Perspective, by Lauriston S. History of the International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, by Lauriston S. Taylor... Protection From Ionizing Radiation, by K. Z. Morgan... Dosimetry of Internal Radioactive Isotopes, by K. Z. Morgan.. Range of Uncertainty of MPC Values, by Walter S. Snyder.. Radiation Protection Criteria and Standards, by Jack Schubert.. Statements of E. B. Lewis (primarily on basic concepts underlying radiation protection criteria) Statement by Austin Brues (primarily on basic biological concepts underlying criteria and standards of radiation protection)...... "Somatic Effects," "Introduction," and "Summary and Conclusions" (from AAAS symposium on low-level irradi- The Radium 226 Standard for Bone Seekers, by Robley D. Evans Comments on the Present Biological Standard for Strontium 90 De- rived From the Effects of Radium in Man, by William B. Looney.. Statement on Social Aspects of the Problem of Radiation Protection Chapter 2. Statement of the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Labora- 1239 Chapter 3. Statement of the Air Force Special Weapons Center. Chapter 4. Statement of the Atomic Energy Commission, introduction.. Part I. Establishment of AEC radiation protection standards and Appendix A. The radiological hazards survey and control program at the AEC uranium mill in Monticello, Utah, by National Lead Co., Appendix B. Application of radiation protection standards at atomic energy facilities operated by Union Carbide Nuclear Co..... Appendix C. Application of radiation protection standards at the Portsmouth plant, by Goodyear Atomic Corp-- Appendix D. Application of radiation protection standards at the Hanford plant, by General Electric Co. Appendix E. Application of radiation protection standards at the Idaho chemical processing plant, by AEC Idaho Operations Office. Appendix F. Application of radiation protection standards at the Appendix G. Application of radiation protection standards at the Savannah River plant, by E. I. DuPont de Nemours Co., Inc. - Appendix H. Application of radiation protection standards at the Weldon Springs plant, by the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works Appendix I. Effects of changes in radiation exposure tolerance on the Appendix J. AEC Division of Biology and Medicine research program Chapter 5. Statement of the Department of Health, Education, and National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council_ Chapter 8. Comments on 1959 Joint Committee on Atomic Energy hear- ings submitted by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and Atomic Energy Commission___- Chapter 9. Recent reports and papers relating to radiation protection Report of Ad Hoc Committee of the National Committee on Radia- tion Protection and Measurements___ Excerpts from National Bureau of Standards Handbook 69_ Excerpts from the 1958 radiation protection recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection _ _ Excerpts from the 1959 report of the International Commission on Excerpts from a lecture before the American Industrial Hygiene Association, April 25, 1956, by Henry F. Smythe, Jr. Symposium on threshold limits (American Industrial Hygiene As- sociation and American Conference of Governmental Industrial Excerpts from Canadian atomic energy control regulations. Excerpts from the 1960 report on the biological effects of atomic radiation, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Chapter 10. Selected References on Radiation Protection Standards, by |