Dear Bernard,
My understanding of the TFP is that Strontium-90 is used like a tracer.
Sr90, as you know, has a half-life of about 29 years, and so the amount
in baby teeth should be going down, not evening off and going up. If the
baby got sr90 from the local nuke, the baby alaso ingested all the other
radionuclides emitted by the local nuke.
BERNARD L COHEN wrote:
> > So far, teeth from children born in Miami-Dade County and other-----------------------
> > southeastern Florida counties have the highest concentrations of
> > strontium-90 in the United States, which might be explained by the
> > fact that two nuclear reactors there emitted 10.39 trillion picocuries
> > of radioactivity into the air between 1970 and 1987, an amount equal
> > to about three-fourths of all the radioactivity released during the
> > infamous Three Mile Island accident.
k
--Strontium-90 has nothing to do with either of these situations, Florida or TMI.
Dear George-The idea is that continual doses of low level radiation and radionuclides act in a synergistic fashion with toxins like those emitted by Dupont. I've never claimed that PSEG's nukes alone were THE cause of higher cancer rates, just A cause.
Norm
-=---------------------------------Good afternoon! I have never heard of the cancer rates being the highest around the Salem County area. If so, I don't feel you can blame Artificial Island (sorry but I'm from the old school) when you have DuPont sitting on both sides of the River. George Brozowski US EPA - Region 6 Dallas, TX
To: John J. - What do I think of the numbers? I think that the statistics show that something is happening that appears to involve the nuke plant, but beyond that I can't say for sure, except to expound the "synergistic effects" theory.
To: Michael DuPray- Yes I agree that industry in the area produces
toxins. As far as emissions, according to PSEG and the NRC (and I'm writing
this from memory), the 3 nukes emitted over 70 curies of assorted radiation
and radionuclides in 2001.
Thats with a 50% error rated and assorted approximations built into
the reporting system.
To: Richard Hess - see the above answers. I can't go any further without a more detailed followup investigation. My hunch is that water plays a big part in how people ingest radionuclides from the 3 nukes.
peace,
norm
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