LLOYD HARBOR STUDY GROUP INC. ae r,
BOX 771 7
HUNTINGTON, N. Y. 11748

August 19, 1970

Dr, Joshua Lederberg
Stanford University
Stanford, Cal,

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

Certain data attributed to you in the Washington
Bost recently prompts me to write to you, In your discussion
of diseases with a genetic basis (approx. 2000 of them) you
made the prediction that if uses of the peaceful atom were
expanded until we reached the FRC guideline limits we could
expect am annual health care bill of $ 10-billion,

This strong statement is important to us---as well
as to the general public, certainly---because we are engaged in
legal intervention in the licensing of one of these peaceful
uses, a 829 MWe Boiling Water Reactor on the shore of Long
Island Sound, (a tidal body), next to an extensive marsh, across
the road from a Nike-Hercules base, five miles from Brookhaven
National Lab reactors, 4% miles from the end of a runway of a
naval testing airport which may become a major metroxpolitan jet-
port and in a county which has been called the fastest growing
county in the nation, The utility, in its application for the
construction license, has not, in our opinion, shown that opera-
tion of this plant, at this site, at the present state of the art,
would NOT endanger the health and safety of the public,

Especially, its assumptions of radionuclide releases
in both air and water are inadequate and supported by sketchy
cluculations which depend on former environmental Surveys done
by BNL, which were also vague and misleading, As 14 of these
plants are planned to encircle Long Island Sound---which besides
reine effected already by BNL and plants on the Conn, River flowing
into also supports the operation of the Groton nuclear sub base-~-
we feel'it is imperative to bring all these questions out in the
open NOW, This is the first construction license hearing bénce the
passage of the National Environmental Policy Act so what is done
here will set a prectdent for the following hearings,

We have about 40 experts from throughout the nation to cover
various aspects---including Drs. Gofman and Tamplin, Dr. Harvey Whee-
ler and Dr, James Watson---and Ralph Nader"s group has also intervened,
on the point of radioactive contamination of food products on L.I.

Our question is, would you be able to give your important ideas at
the hearing? We would, of course, pay your sire,

S Smapéreyy yours

Slats Sept af. witiiam Carl, chairman