ABSTRACT - Draft environmental impact statement on new plutonium factory being considered by Energy Department estimates that radiation doses for workers will cause about one fatal case of cancer for each four and a half years the plant operates; plant, Modern Pit Facility, would make smaller bombs to replace old ones that it says may become unreliable; department says annual dose to individual worker would be about 10 percent of limit used at civilian power reactors and not much more than natural background that average person would receive (M) The radiation doses that the Energy Department estimates for workers at a new plutonium factory that it wants to build would cause about one fatal case of cancer for each four and a half years the plant operates, according to the draft environmental impact statement.

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