Media information review, July--December 1992

The following letter report is a brief review of 138 articles written about the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project in local, regional, and national newspapers. The articles were collected between July and December 1992. This report provides a general indication of the media's interest in and the public's information about the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project. The articles were divided into topics (e.g., Columbia River contamination, revised iodine-131 releases) according to the primary focus of stories. Likewise, for closer content evaluation, varying sub-topics (e.g., credibility, radiation exposure, health effects) within the articles were noted, sorted and ranked