The Plutonium Controversy
- Herbert L. Volchok, PhD
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To the Editor.— I would like to bring to your attention a serious discrepancy between data mentioned by Dr John W. Gofman (236:284, 1976) and some of our own. Dr Gofman stated "at the Rocky Flats installation, careful air monitoring... has shown air levels of resuspended plutonium not declining even after five years." This statement was followed by a reference to monthly reports of the Denver Department of Health.
Other, perhaps more complete, information is available from our own research-monitoring program in the Rocky Flats area. The Health and Safety Laboratory of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration carried out the initial comprehensive area mapping of the soil plutonium contamination near Rocky Flats in early 1970,1 and the results of this study have been generally accepted and widely quoted by all sides in "the plutonium controversy."2-4 In mid-1970, we initiated a program for continuous sampling and analysis
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Edited by John D. Archer, MD, Senior Editor.
