Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Congressional Hearings Transcript

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health ofticials. The assessment of agricultural and food effects
was also a responsibility of this working group.
A work group of the Task Force headed by NRC was given the
responsibility to describe and evaluate possible reactor accident
scenarios
NOAA was responsible for providing the meteorological
information that was also included in the daily Task Force Report.
EPA was responsible for public information: issuing the daily
Task Force Report and providing information to the public as it
became available. Also EPA headed the Dose Assessment Working
Group which consisted of representatives from several Federal
agencies
On May 1 the State Department issued a travel advisory
recommending against travel to Kiev and adjacent areas in the
Soviet Union and urging the public to monitor press reports for
any updated information. The following day the State Department
upgraded its travel advisory to recommend against travel by
women of child-bearing age and children to Poland until the
situation there was clarified and also advised travelers in
Eastern Europe to avoid consumption of milk and dairy products.
The Task Force decided that contacts should be made with
counterpart agencies in affected countries to obtain radiological
data. NRC placed calls to eighteen countries between
May 2 and May 5. The best available information was included
in the daily Task Force Report.