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Problems of Milk Supply Associated with Possible Nuclear Reactor Accidents

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico

ABSTRACT

The increasing number of power reactors and other proposed nuclear energy uses carries with it the threat of accidental radioactive contamination of the local food supply. It is probably safe to say that as the number of installations increases, the probability of accidents also increases. The Windscale incident (1) in England demonstrated that such accidents can happen and can create troublesome contamination problems. In the event of such an accident in this country, one of the first actions should be to restrict the milk supply to nonhuman uses. Milk would probably be the food product of primary or sole concern, as was the case at Windscale. This would depend to some extent on the crops grown in the area and the season of the year. However, this discussion will be concerned only with the problem of milk supply. Much attention has been given in this country to procedures to be followed in the event of nuclear disasters, but little attention has been given to milk supplies in the case of reactor accidents.

¹ On leave from the Animal Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.