National cancer panel holds second public meeting

The National Academy of Sciences held its second of five public meetings on April 18 in a Chicago suburb. View the webcast of the meeting.

Both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Exelon gave presentations on their policies and procedures for monitoring release data and reconstruction of doses to members of the public. Question and answer sessions followed in which the committee members engaged the presenters.

Dr. Joseph Sauer also presented Illinois health data that appears to show increases in cancer incidence.

The public comment session followed at 7:30 PM with several community members, including from Minnesota, and Beyond Nuclear offering information.

Tentaive upcoming meetings of this NAS panel are scheduled as follows, although session open to the public and public comment times are not yet announced:

Meeting #3	Atlanta	May 23-24, 2011
Meeting #4	Los Angeles	July 20-21, 2011
Meeting #5	TBD	August 29-30, 2011

The archived video of the open session of the first committee meeting is available here. Presentations available here.

Beyond Nuclear is encouraging citizens in and around these meeting sites to come and participate. Please contact us for more information.