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I. INTRODUCTION
Pages 4-7

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... , has undertaken a series of studies to assess the possible health consequences of emissions of radioactive materials from DOE nuclear facilities throughout the United States. At the request of CDC, the Board on Radiation Effects Research, in the National Research Council's Commission on Life Sciences, organized the Committee on an Assessment of CDC Radiation Studies to provide scientific advice to CDC's Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control and to evaluate the quality and completeness of CDC's assessments.
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... Seven steps were recognized as central to the reconstruction of doses received by members of the public because of environmental releases of radioactive materials: · Estimation of the identity, composition, physical nature, and amount of historical environmental releases of radioactive materials over the duration of active plant operations and since then, with a possible extrapolation of the source term to future impacts. · Environmental-pathway analysis, leading to estimates of the movement, behavior, and transportation of the radioactive material within the environment, including radionuclide deposition on the ground and radionuclide concentrations in ground-level air, drinking water, and foodstuffs.
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... All relevant available information should be compiled and evaluated, including current measurements of soil and water samples and any important gaps in available records should be identified. · Extensive quality control.
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... The public should be kept informed about how the study is conducted and how the results are obtained and should be encouraged to provide additional, even anecdotal, information on plant operations. The outcome of these studies must be presented in a fashion open to public understanding and scrutiny.
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