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STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 e (415) 321-1200

STANFORD UNIverSIty SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Department of Genetics

January 12, 1971

Doc .No. 50-346

In the matter of

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY HEREDITY NEUROBIOLOGY

Toledo Edison Company in Cleveland
Electric Illuminating Company

.: Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant

Attached hereto are signed copies of (1) my professional qualifications
and academic biography, and (2) a statement on the cost-benefit analysis
of radiation exposure from the standpoint of genetic mutation and health.

In my opinion, the process by which radiation standards have been promulgated
to date is defective for lack of a clear statement as to the level of
public health hazard that can reasonably be expected as a consequence
of a level of radiation advocated as "permissible". It may well be that
reasonable men might conclude that the cost of such a level of exposure
is more than counterbalanced by the benefits of useful applications of
nuclear energy. However, this decision on a matter of public policy
should be made on premises about anticipated costs that have been clearly
exposed, rather than embedded in more technical inferences about the bio-
logical effects of radiation exposure.

The above statement, with referenced attachments represents my best know-
ledge and true belief on the question of radiation standards.

Joshua Lederberg

Professor of Genetics

Chairman, Department of
Genetics

LT. J. P. KENNEDY, JR. LABORATORIES FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE, DEDICATED TO RESEARCH IN MENTAL RETARDATION

DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE