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RE: So, is reprocessing in America's future?



> Is this documented somehwere? (The Co-60 in Taiwan)



Jim:



Not very well, due to the resistance of the radiation community in Taiwan

and the fact that nobody else is asking for the data.  Why haven't the DOE,

NRC, EPA and the ANS, HPS, NCI,the Congress and the press asked officially

for this info?  I presume it's the same reason that they cut off following

the radium dial painters (a nearly perfect study meeting all their loud

objections to ecological studies), why they cut off the Frigerio program,

why they are not seeking data from radon spas with radon levels up to one

million (yes, million) times the proposed EPA limit, etc.



This allows DOE to keep saying "The bulk of our data comes from the a-bomb

survivors," one of the most poorly controlled irradiated populations we

could choose.  Provides lots of opportunities to "normalize" the data.



I personally handed the Taiwanese "ambassador" an RSH letter at a dinner at

his residence, asking for this information.  I also asked for assistance

from the man who was head of the Taiwanese AEC at the time and now lives in

Maryland (whom I had met previously).  They tried, but were unsuccessful.

There is little doubt about the approximate doses and about the cancer

cases.  So the conclusion is clear.  But we have no demographic data on age,

sex, etc of the population, so the info does not fully meet scientific

journal standards.



Wouldn't you think that our nuclear and radiation societies and federal

agencies would be asking for this information?  No, they'd rather study cell

cultures for the next few years.  That's how you get appointed to NCRP and

ICRP.



Ted Rockwell





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