Reports of the Public Health and Safety Task Force on public health and safety summary; health physics and dosimetry; radiation health effects; behavioral effects; and public health and epidemiology

The general objectives of the Health Physics and Dosimetry Task Group included: (1) to determine the radiation dose to the people living within the area of 50 miles around the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station during the period of March 28 to April 15, 1979; (2) to determine the radiation dose to the workers at the nuclear power plant during the period of March 28 to June 30, 1979 - the cutoff date necessitated by the deadline of the Commission's report; and (3) to evaluate federal, state, and utility company programs concerned with the protection of human populations and their environment from the possible hazards of ionizing radiation, and the efficacy of these radiation protection programs during the nuclear accident at TMI