Re: Baldwin Seeks Radioactivity Tests

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@prodigy.net>]

To understand the whacko mind, you have to think like they do --- If you
sincerely believe something to be true,
it is true. Science is a foreign concept not to be trusted.


-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Paperiello <CJP1@nrc.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, November 06, 2000 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Baldwin Seeks Radioactivity Tests


>Having read the discussions of checking baby teeth for Sr-90, I can find no
indication that there are control samples being taken.  Are there controls
from areas that match the downwind areas and have had similar fallout but
are not located around nuclear facilities?
>
>Are there case controlled studies that match Sr-90 in teeth to various
diseases?
>
>There are two issues here.  Is there an increased Sr-90 intake around
nuclear power plants and has this increase caused an increase of illness?
>
>
>
>
>>>> sandyfl@earthlink.net 11/4/2000 10:09:04 AM >>>
>Baldwin Seeks Radioactivity Tests
>
>WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Alec Baldwin is asking county
>lawmakers for at least $50,000 to help fund a project that tests
>baby teeth for levels of a radioactive isotope.
>
>The actor made his request Thursday before a committee of the
>Westchester County Legislature.
>
>``This contamination is the result of a government program and
>therefore the government should pay for the research to determine
>the level of contamination in the community,'' he said.
>
>The Tooth Fairy Project tests baby teeth for strontium-90, known
>as a byproduct of nuclear explosions. Baldwin's organization, the
>Radiation and Public Health Project, believes the isotope is being
>emitted at dangerous levels from nuclear power plants, including
>Indian Point plants in Westchester.
>
>They say studies show the higher the level of strontium-90 in baby
>teeth, the greater their risk of developing cancer before age 5.
>
>The nuclear industry and some scientists dispute the claims.
>
>``We know that there isn't enough strontium released from plants to
>do the sort of things that they're talking about,'' said Carl Patrick,
>spokesman for the state Power Authority, which operates one of
>the Indian Point plants. ``We also know that strontium in people's
>teeth comes basically from dairy products and produce.''
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