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Re: Sternglass/Gould/Tooth Fairy/NCI "DOE-Watch"--FYI
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Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: RadiumProj@cs.com <RadiumProj@cs.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, October 16, 2000 9:37 AM
Subject: Sternglass/Gould/Tooth Fairy/NCI "DOE-Watch"--FYI
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>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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>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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>Subject: [DOEWatch] REPLYS FROM DR STERNGLASS & DR GOULD RE National Cancer
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>----- 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
>
>
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