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Sternglass/Gould/Tooth Fairy/NCI "DOE-Watch"--FYI

Radsafe:
For those of you not familiar with it, a posting to an anti-nuclear bulletin 
board called DOEWatch is copied below, which includes some comments by Dr. 
Sternglass and Jay Gould to a question posed about NCI having found no 
increase in cancer rates around nuclear reactors. The comment by Gould makes 
reference to an article about the Tooth Fairy Project which I have not yet 
looked at which was Gould  states published by Johns Hopkins University. 
Worth looking at. I noted in looking at the DOEWatch site that Norman Cohen, 
who had posed so many "questions" to radsafe a while back,  was a frequent 
poster to DOEWatch and made a number of posts about goading the Radsafers. 

As the old saw says: "know your enemies".

The distribution for this post also gives the email address for a number of 
individual environment/nuclear staff media contacts [NY Times,  Tennessean, & 
others] that may be of interest to some.

Stewart Farber
Public Health Sciences
email: radiumproj@cs.com
==================
In a message dated 10/15/00 9:30:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
smirnowb@ix.netcom.com writes:

> Subj:  [DOEWatch] REPLYS FROM DR STERNGLASS & DR GOULD RE National Cancer 
> Institute STUDY OF CANCERS AROUND REACTORS
>  Date:    10/15/00 9:30:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time
>  From:    smirnowb@ix.netcom.com (Bill Smirnow)
>  To:  Nucnews@egroups.com (Nucnews List), nukenet@envirolink.org (Nukenet), 
> downwinders@egroups.com (Downwinders List), doewatch@egroups.com (DOE-Watch 
> List), Abolition-Caucus@egroups.com (Abolition-Caucus)
>  CC:  sthomas@usnews.com (Media/US News & World Report), lschuster@upi.com (
> Media/UPI), annem@progressive.org (Media/The Progressive), sbegle@nwnet.
> newsweek.com (Media/Newsweek), manning@lasvegassun.com (Media/Mary Manning/
> Las Vegas Sun), lfrank@tennessean.com (Media/Luara Frank/ Tennessean), oped@
> csps.com (Media/Christian Science Monitor), Mattwald@nytimes.com (Matt 
Media/
> Wald)
>  
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: <MSSEJS@aol.com>
>  To: <smirnowb@ix.netcom.com>
>  Cc: <jbbrown@gate.net>; <JayMGould@aol.com>; <Odiejoe@aol.com>;
>  <Toxdocjs@aol.com>; <hdsharma@golden.net>
>  Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 6:08 PM
>  Subject: NCI STUDY OF CANCERS AROUND REACTORS
>  
>  Dr Sternglass wrote:
>  
>  
>  > Bill:
>  >
>  > You should know that our book"The Enemy Within" by Jay M Gould et al.
>  (Four
>  > Walls Eight Windows, NY 1996) shows that in fact there was a large and
>  highly
>  > significant increase in breast cancer mortality rates not only around all
>  old
>  > DOE facilities with nuclear reactors of 37% between 1950-54 and1985-89
>  > compared with a 1% rise for the U.S. as a whole (Table7-1, page 129) but
>  also
>  > a highly significant rise for all nuclear reactors when the area studied
>  is
>  > extended to a 50 mile radius (Table 7-2, page 131).
>  >
>  > The original NCI methodology used only one or two counties for each
>  reactor,
>  > and compared the rate of cancer deaths with 3 selected counties, a
>  majority
>  > of which were adjacent to the county with reactors, so that they all rose
>  > together, allowing the NCI to say that with the methodology used, "there
>  was
>  > no difference between reactor and control counties". The book is 
available
>  at
>  > low cost from Jerry Brown, Executive Director of RPHP.. 
(jbbrown@gate.net)
>  or
>  > any internet book site.
>  >
>  > Ernest J. Sternglass
>  > mssejs@aol.com
>  
>  
>  
>      Dr. Jay  Gould wrote:
>  
>      > please refer to Appendix D of the Rphp publication of The Enemy
>  Within:
>  the
>  > High Cost of living Near Nuclear Reactors for a demonstration of the
>  > dishonesty of the NCI and the infamous Jablon report that with their
>  bizarre
>  > methodology no one could find evidence of harm because they compared each
>  > county in which a reactor was placed with a "control" county near another
>  > reactor assuming that emissions would not ever cross county boundaries.
>  > Also, Bill why dont you tell those on your valuable list serve about our
>  web
>  > site www.radiation.org which now carries the definitive article published
>  by
>  > the Johns Hopkins Shool of Public Health on the results of our Tooth 
Fairy
>  > Project----Jay M Gould
>  
>  
>     Bill Smirnow wrote:
>  
>        >  Does anyone have data as to just how NCI is funded? NCI's 
statement
>  >&
>  >NRC's acceptance thereof is an obvious murderous lie being perpetrated
>  >on
>  >the public. http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/infant.html
>  >
>  >They make no comment on the 10 DOE sites that NCI looked at & any
>  >cancer
>  >rates from "low-level" radiation. What do we make from this no comment
>  >policy re DOE sites?
>  >
>  > -Bill Smirnow
>  >
>  >
>  >    Additionally, the National Cancer Institute, at the request of
>  >Congress,
>  >conducted a study1 of 52 nuclear power stations and 10 Department of
>  >Energy
>  >facilities.  The study concluded that there was no increase in cancers
>  >in
>  >the communities surrounding the nuclear power plants.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >----- Original Message -----
>  >From: "DRPM/PDLR DRPM/PDLR" <DRPM/PDLR@nrc.gov>
>  >To: <smirnowb@ix.netcom.com>
>  >Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:55 PM
>  >Subject: Public Comment on draft regulatory guidance on license
>  >renewal
>  >
>  >
>  >Mr. Smirnow:
>  >
>  >Thank you for your comments on the renewal of nuclear power plants
>  >operating
>  >licenses received via the NRC website.
>  >
>  >The Atomic Energy Act established a 40-year license term for power
>  >reactors,
>  >but also provided that such licenses could be renewed.  Public comment
>  >was
>  >sought when the regulations were amended in 1991 and 1995  to include
>  >a
>  >process for renewal in Part 54 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
>  >Regulations.  Public comment was also sought when the associated
>  >environmental impact requirements in Part 51 were amended for license
>  >renewal in 1996.
>  >
>  >The license renewal requirements provide for a plant-specific
>  >determination
>  >that aging effects can be adequately managed during the period of
>  >extended
>  >operation.  The NRC is currently seeking public comment on updated
>  >guidance
>  >for the evaluation of plant-specific applications for license renewal,
>  >including a report on generic aging lessons learned (GALL).  Recent
>  >media
>  >reports erroneously described this guidance as the only opportunity
>  >for
>  >public comment for license renewal.  The NRC requested comments on the
>  >updated renewal guidance by October 16, 2000 in preparation for a
>  >meeting of
>  >the Nuclear Regulatory Commission planned for December 5, 2000, to
>  >specifically discuss the extent to which existing inspection and
>  >maintenance
>  >activities need to be augmented for license renewal.
>  >
>  >Comments on the license renewal guidance submitted after that date
>  >will be
>  >considered to the extent practical up to the time the proposed final
>  >guidance is submitted to the Commission for approval, presently
>  >scheduled
>  >for March 2001.
>  >
>  >The license renewal process provides for individual hearings, public
>  >meetings and a request for public comment in the vicinity of each
>  >plant that
>  >submits a license renewal application.
>  >
>  >Additional information about the license renewal process and related
>  >evaluation guidance is available on the NRC webpage at
>  ><http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/LR/index.html>.
>  >
>  >With respect to "low-level" radiation, NRC regulations require
>  >licensees to
>  >have effluent and environmental monitoring programs (to quantify
>  >releases
>  >and their impact on the environment) to ensure that the impacts from
>  >plant
>  >operations are minimized.  The results of these programs are reported
>  >annually and available to the public.  The permitted effluent releases
>  >result in very small doses to members of the public living around the
>  >plants
>  >(small fractions of the public dose limit).  Regional NRC inspectors
>  >routinely inspect these monitoring programs to ensure continued
>  >compliance
>  >with regulatory requirements.  Licensees are required to participate
>  >in an
>  >interlaboratory comparison program which provides an independent check
>  >on
>  >the accuracy and precision of the environmental measurements.
>  >Additionally,
>  >the National Cancer Institute, at the request of Congress, conducted a
>  >study1 of 52 nuclear power stations and 10 Department of Energy
>  >facilities.
>  >The study concluded that there was no increase in cancers in the
>  >communities
>  >surrounding the nuclear power plants.
>  >
>  >License Renewal and Standardization Branch
>  >Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
>  >United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
>  >
>  >1: "Cancer in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities," Jablon, et
>  >al.,
>  >National Cancer Institute, July 1990. [NIH Publication No. 90-874]
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
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>  -based near the cryptic named  X-10 [god and ten commandments] and Y-12 [
> yahweh and disciples] nuke weapons plants of the nuclear tabernacle of Oak 
> Ridge.
>  
>  "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky
>  That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one...
>  I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds." 
>  -Oppenheimer July 16, 45 at Trinity from 5,000 year old Bhagavad-Gita
>  
>  "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world.  
It 
> may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after 
> Noah and his fabulous Ark.  Anyway we think we have found the way to cause 
> the disintegration of the atom."
>   -Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 45 after Pottsdam and the "baby was 
> born" and grew into "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" and the hydrogen bomb 
> delivered by bomber named  "Dave's Dream."  Enola Gay's pilot, after 
> Hiroshima,  enters "My God' in the log.
>  
>  "The Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his 
> patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and 
> prevention of disease."
>  -Attributed to Thomas Alva Edison
>  
>  "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
>  -George Orwell
>  
>  The Manhattan Project commited war crimes in killing Amazon and Panama 
> natives in nuke bomb and isotope tests.
>  
>  Oak Ridge uses ole hippie activists to hide its HF emissions and war 
crimes.
>  
>  The actual setting for the "Three Faces of Eve" was Oak Ridge.  Now its 
also 
> a setting for "The Simpsons."
>  
>  DOEWatch page:    http://members.aol.com/doewatch
>  
>  
>  




----- Original Message -----
From: <MSSEJS@aol.com>
To: <smirnowb@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <jbbrown@gate.net>; <JayMGould@aol.com>; <Odiejoe@aol.com>;
<Toxdocjs@aol.com>; <hdsharma@golden.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: NCI STUDY OF CANCERS AROUND REACTORS

Dr Sternglass wrote:


> Bill:
>
> You should know that our book"The Enemy Within" by Jay M Gould et al.
(Four
> Walls Eight Windows, NY 1996) shows that in fact there was a large and
highly
> significant increase in breast cancer mortality rates not only around all
old
> DOE facilities with nuclear reactors of 37% between 1950-54 and1985-89
> compared with a 1% rise for the U.S. as a whole (Table7-1, page 129) but
also
> a highly significant rise for all nuclear reactors when the area studied
is
> extended to a 50 mile radius (Table 7-2, page 131).
>
> The original NCI methodology used only one or two counties for each
reactor,
> and compared the rate of cancer deaths with 3 selected counties, a
majority
> of which were adjacent to the county with reactors, so that they all rose
> together, allowing the NCI to say that with the methodology used, "there
was
> no difference between reactor and control counties". The book is available
at
> low cost from Jerry Brown, Executive Director of RPHP.. (jbbrown@gate.net)
or
> any internet book site.
>
> Ernest J. Sternglass
> mssejs@aol.com



    Dr. Jay  Gould wrote:

    > please refer to Appendix D of the Rphp publication of The Enemy
Within:
the
> High Cost of living Near Nuclear Reactors for a demonstration of the
> dishonesty of the NCI and the infamous Jablon report that with their
bizarre
> methodology no one could find evidence of harm because they compared each
> county in which a reactor was placed with a "control" county near another
> reactor assuming that emissions would not ever cross county boundaries.
> Also, Bill why dont you tell those on your valuable list serve about our
web
> site www.radiation.org which now carries the definitive article published
by
> the Johns Hopkins Shool of Public Health on the results of our Tooth Fairy
> Project----Jay M Gould


   Bill Smirnow wrote:

      >  Does anyone have data as to just how NCI is funded? NCI's statement
>&
>NRC's acceptance thereof is an obvious murderous lie being perpetrated
>on
>the public. http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/infant.html
>
>They make no comment on the 10 DOE sites that NCI looked at & any
>cancer
>rates from "low-level" radiation. What do we make from this no comment
>policy re DOE sites?
>
> -Bill Smirnow
>
>
>    Additionally, the National Cancer Institute, at the request of
>Congress,
>conducted a study1 of 52 nuclear power stations and 10 Department of
>Energy
>facilities.  The study concluded that there was no increase in cancers
>in
>the communities surrounding the nuclear power plants.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "DRPM/PDLR DRPM/PDLR" <DRPM/PDLR@nrc.gov>
>To: <smirnowb@ix.netcom.com>
>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:55 PM
>Subject: Public Comment on draft regulatory guidance on license
>renewal
>
>
>Mr. Smirnow:
>
>Thank you for your comments on the renewal of nuclear power plants
>operating
>licenses received via the NRC website.
>
>The Atomic Energy Act established a 40-year license term for power
>reactors,
>but also provided that such licenses could be renewed.  Public comment
>was
>sought when the regulations were amended in 1991 and 1995  to include
>a
>process for renewal in Part 54 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
>Regulations.  Public comment was also sought when the associated
>environmental impact requirements in Part 51 were amended for license
>renewal in 1996.
>
>The license renewal requirements provide for a plant-specific
>determination
>that aging effects can be adequately managed during the period of
>extended
>operation.  The NRC is currently seeking public comment on updated
>guidance
>for the evaluation of plant-specific applications for license renewal,
>including a report on generic aging lessons learned (GALL).  Recent
>media
>reports erroneously described this guidance as the only opportunity
>for
>public comment for license renewal.  The NRC requested comments on the
>updated renewal guidance by October 16, 2000 in preparation for a
>meeting of
>the Nuclear Regulatory Commission planned for December 5, 2000, to
>specifically discuss the extent to which existing inspection and
>maintenance
>activities need to be augmented for license renewal.
>
>Comments on the license renewal guidance submitted after that date
>will be
>considered to the extent practical up to the time the proposed final
>guidance is submitted to the Commission for approval, presently
>scheduled
>for March 2001.
>
>The license renewal process provides for individual hearings, public
>meetings and a request for public comment in the vicinity of each
>plant that
>submits a license renewal application.
>
>Additional information about the license renewal process and related
>evaluation guidance is available on the NRC webpage at
><http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/LR/index.html>.
>
>With respect to "low-level" radiation, NRC regulations require
>licensees to
>have effluent and environmental monitoring programs (to quantify
>releases
>and their impact on the environment) to ensure that the impacts from
>plant
>operations are minimized.  The results of these programs are reported
>annually and available to the public.  The permitted effluent releases
>result in very small doses to members of the public living around the
>plants
>(small fractions of the public dose limit).  Regional NRC inspectors
>routinely inspect these monitoring programs to ensure continued
>compliance
>with regulatory requirements.  Licensees are required to participate
>in an
>interlaboratory comparison program which provides an independent check
>on
>the accuracy and precision of the environmental measurements.
>Additionally,
>the National Cancer Institute, at the request of Congress, conducted a
>study1 of 52 nuclear power stations and 10 Department of Energy
>facilities.
>The study concluded that there was no increase in cancers in the
>communities
>surrounding the nuclear power plants.
>
>License Renewal and Standardization Branch
>Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
>United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
>
>1: "Cancer in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities," Jablon, et
>al.,
>National Cancer Institute, July 1990. [NIH Publication No. 90-874]
>
>
>
>
>





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DOEWatch List ----A Magnum-Opus Project ---  The real Natl. Sec. Directive
Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com  
-based near the cryptic named  X-10 [god and ten commandments] and Y-12 
[yahweh and disciples] nuke weapons plants of the nuclear tabernacle of Oak 
Ridge.

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one...
I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds." 
-Oppenheimer July 16, 45 at Trinity from 5,000 year old Bhagavad-Gita

"We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world.  It 
may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after 
Noah and his fabulous Ark.  Anyway we think we have found the way to cause 
the disintegration of the atom."
 -Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 45 after Pottsdam and the "baby was 
born" and grew into "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" and the hydrogen bomb 
delivered by bomber named  "Dave's Dream."  Enola Gay's pilot, after 
Hiroshima,  enters "My God' in the log.

"The Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his 
patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and 
prevention of disease."
-Attributed to Thomas Alva Edison

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
-George Orwell

The Manhattan Project commited war crimes in killing Amazon and Panama 
natives in nuke bomb and isotope tests.

Oak Ridge uses ole hippie activists to hide its HF emissions and war crimes.

The actual setting for the "Three Faces of Eve" was Oak Ridge.  Now its also 
a setting for "The Simpsons."

DOEWatch page:    http://members.aol.com/doewatch