[ RadSafe ] More Fed agency promulgation of radiophobia

[James Salsman]

Jim Muckerheide wrote:

> Our responsible industry and government authorities need to develop and
> establish the institutional basis to question these results....
> 
> Obviously, no credible "science" or scientists influence these results! 

I'm guessing Jim hasn't seen the videos:

   http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hanford/health_care/video_presentations.html

If he has, I wonder what his definition of "credible" is.

> (Note: I am an Idaho Hanford 'downwinder' - Moscow, 1946-49 :-) 

Idaho residents don't have much to worry about.  Almost all the
really significant exposures were in Adams, Benton, and Franklin
counties in Washington:
   http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hanford/img/exposure_map.gif

Sincerely,
James Salsman

> BoiseWeekly: Lesson One: Don't Say "Fallout Shmallout"
> AUGUST 24, 2005
> BY NICHOLAS COLLIAS
>  
> Last year, Idaho leapt to the forefront of the debate over
> whether the federal government should compensate former victims
> of nuclear fallout from radioactive tests and emissions (BW,
> "The Low Use Segment," November 17, 2004). And while the
> government has still not accepted full responsibility-at least
> by way of compensation-in heavily effected states like Idaho,
> Wyoming and Washington, at least it's trying to help doctors
> deal with its mess. 
>  
> The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,
> part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has just
> released a new video instructing doctors on how to combat the
> mental, as well as physical, ailments expressed by nuclear
> downwinders. Titled Hanford: The Psychological Dimensions of
> Radiation Exposure, the 30-minute video concedes that large
> radioactive releases did occur throughout the US-and that
> patients and doctors alike struggle against the vagueness of
> what, exactly, resulted from that exposure....