Re: TMI, Hershey, and radioactive milk?

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

Rosalie Bertell's statement is questionable.  To the best of my knowledge,
nothing about the TMI releases would have been classified under any
classification category in 1979, though it might have been proprietary
information for the utility.  Moreover, it is (and was) a regulatory
violation (and may be illegal) to classify information simply to keep it
from the public.  That's not the purpose of classification.  Just because
information must be requested under FOIA doesn't mean any of it was ever
classified.

I remember quite distinctly that monitoring data from the TMI accident was
available in the federal documents section of the University of Washington
library in (as I recall) the winter of 1979-1980, because I looked it up.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
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From: Pambo1@aol.com <Pambo1@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:15 PM
Subject: TMI, Hershey, and radioactive milk?


>The message below was sent out to an email list I'm on.  Comments from
>RADSAFE?
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>Pam Gillis Watson
>_______________
>
>Someone who for the time  being wants to remain anonymous sent me the
>following last week. He & his colleagues were  sworn to secrecy.
> The milk farms are near Mechanisburg, Pa. 13 miles from TMI.  Let's all
>keep in mind the ongoing cover up:
>
>1. http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/rickover.html
>
>2.  http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/bertell.html
>
>To answer some of your questions:
>
> 1.  Hershey asked the court to seal the I-131 data from their two milk
>farms,
>>stating that it would hurt them financially if the data got out.  I feel
> confident this is no longer the case, although it does point to the
>enormous
> power a private co. has with the court.
>
>  You should know, too, that a number of us have seen cow milk data from
>near
>Mechanicsburg, PA, showing >21,000 pCi/l I-131 from samples collected from
>two farms on 29 March 1979 (second day of the accident).  These farms were
>about 12-13 miles west.  The cattle were on hay, not grass; hence, this
>I-131
>was inhaled rather than ingested.
>
>During the TMI trial, we were sworn to secrecy regarding these data;
>however,
>a number of us have decided to go public with it, since it is such a
>valuable
>confirmation that much more I-131 (and other radionuclides as well) were
>released.
>
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