Knapp, Harold

Members of the Commission included C. Douglas Hepler, Ph.D. Mary Anne Koda-Kimblc, Pharm.D. David A. Knapp, Ph.D. Kenneth W. Miller, Ph.D. Milap C. Nahata, Pharm.D. Charles O. Rutledge, Ph.D. William E. Smith, Ph.D. John H. Vandcl Victor A. Yanchick, Ph.D. Charles A. Walton, Ph.D. and Harold H. Wolf, Ph.D. (Chairman). Richard P. Penna, Pharm.D. artfully crafted the discussions of the Commission into documents. 

The Joint Committee heard testimony from witnesses whose scientific investigations and conclusions were similar to those of Harold Knapp. Charles W. Mays, a University of Utah nuclear physicist, estimated that Utah infants had received aimual doses of iodine 131 that exceeded Federal Radiation Council guidelines on several occasions between 1951 and 1962. He announced that since the population of Utah had "been exposed repeatedly in excess of present radiation protection guides," the state would take appropriate countermeasures in the future and "the AEC should not be surprised to receive bills for the cost of these measures." Eric Reiss, a professor of medicine at Washington University and spokesman for the Greater St. Louis Citizens Committee for Nuclear Information, criticized the AEC even more sharply. He contended that the agency had seriously underestimated fallout hazards firom its weapons tests and concluded that "in the period 1951-62, a number of local populations. . . scattered throughout the continental United States have been exposed to fallout so intense as to represent a medically unac-... 

Harold A. Knapp to Spofford G. English, 6 June 1963, Gordon M. Dunning to N. H. Woodruff, 14 June 1963, Research and Development (R D) (General)— Dr. Harold Knapp, Files of the Office of the General Manager, AEC/DOE. 

See, e.g., Kim Fortun, Advocacy after Bhopal Kirsch, Harold Knapp Nash, Fruits of lll-Healfh Petryna, life Exposed and Luise White, Poisoned Food. ... 

Kirsch, Scott. Harold Knapp and the Geography of Normal Controversy Radiodine in the Historical Environment In Landscapes of Exposure Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments, edited by Gregg Mit-man, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers, special issue, Osiris, 167-82. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2004. 

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