[ RadSafe ] Supposed Claim by People Magazine - Radiation caused cancer hit US movie stars

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Christina MacPherson posted: "“The connection between fallout radiation and
cancer in individual cases has been practically impossible to prove
conclusively. But in a group this size you’d expect only 30-some cancers to
develop. With 91, I think the tie-in to their exposure on the"
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Radiation caused cancer hit US movie stars

by Christina MacPherson

“The connection between fallout radiation and cancer in individual cases has
been practically impossible to prove conclusively. But in a group this size
you’d expect only 30-some cancers to develop. With 91, I think the tie-in to
their exposure on the set of The Conqueror would hold up even in a court of
law.”

FROM PEOPLE MAGAZINE:Occupy the NRC 21 Sept 12,  Few moviegoers remember The
Conqueror, a sappy 1956 film about a love affair between Genghis Khan and a
beautiful captive princess. But to the families of its stars, John Wayne and
Susan Hayward, and of its director-producer, Dick Powell, memories of The
Conqueror have begun to acquire nightmarish clarity.

The movie was shot from June through August 1954 among the scenic red bluffs
and white dunes near Saint George, Utah, an area chosen by Powell for its
similarity to the central Asian steppes. At the time it did not seem
significant that Saint George was only 137 miles from the atomic testing
range at Yucca Flat, Nev.; the federal government, after all, was constantly
reassuring local residents back then that the bomb tests posed no health
hazard. Now, 17 years after aboveground nuclear tests were outlawed, Saint
George is plagued by an extraordinarily high rate of cancer (PEOPLE, Oct. 1,
1979)—and the illustrious alumni of The Conqueror and their offspring are
wondering whether their own grim medical histories are more than an uncommon
run of bad luck.  Read more of this post

Christina MacPherson | September 21, 2012 at 5:07 am | Categories: health,
secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-7EZ

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