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9 December 19, 1979 - SUSQUEHANNA TIMES—Page 11
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Editorial:
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Brandt stays on top of the situation
State Representative Ken communications Mr. Brandt ¥
Brandt deserves plenty of has developed with Met Ed,
praise for his efforts to keep NRC, and DER officials.
0 his constituents informed
about the ongoing crisis at Months ago, at a press
| Three Mile Island. : conference which less than
Last week’s meeting in two dozen people attended,
| Maytown, at which Mr. a Susquehanna Times re-
Brandt brought top Met Ed porter first heard Mr.
officials face-to-face with Brandt tell Met Ed
| local citizens, was an operations chief Robert
obvious example of Mr. Arnold, ‘‘People down my
Brandt's determination to way are just sick and tired of
keep us in touch with events surprises coming off that
on the troubled island. island. We want to know
| i Less obvious is Mr. = what’s going on, before it
) Brandt's religious attend- happens.’
ance at press conferences Mr. Brandt's voice is
(which even the press has evidently being heard, for
tended to ignore, lately), which we all owe him our
and the good lines of thanks.
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The map shows the total radioactivity [in millirems]
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: accident most probably would have received at various
background of 116 millirems. Most of the radiation came
from krypton and xenon gases, which are heavier than
air. They tended to hit the ground at a slight distance
1 | r j a "locations within a two-mile range of TMI. Only on Shelly from Three Mile Island—for example, against the
wd Island did the total dose exceed normal annual hillside of Shelly Island.
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1 TMI auxillary building and fuel handling building. The chart s Scale
is compressed to emphasize the pattern of lower-level 2 }
ottom releases. Note that ‘‘one’’ is half as high as ‘‘ten’’ on the 10 11
chart. In other words, the big releases on the first day, if i miles
n. An they were in absolute proportion, would be ten times Bi) "
d fhe higher than the line marked ‘‘one,” instead of only twice This map shows the total absorbed radiation dose within have absorbed 78 millirems. Annual background
: Bs a a gh: This means Shoat all ihe a releases happeted in a ten-mile radius of TMI. Nobody in our area got more radiation is this area is 116 millirems.
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than half a millirem. In Middletown, some people may
blowing away from our area. .