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another reaction to the Pittsburg TMI "study"
Pameno47@aol.com wrote:
> Thanks for this info.
> It is with no surprise to me that the University of Pittsburgh was and
> is involved in the dissemination of misinformation. For decades, they
> were involved with the facilities that I have been fighting for over
> 13 years in the Kiski Valley, NUMEC/ARCO/B&W nuclear fuels processing
> plants and a waste dump.
> University of Pittsburgh was also involved in DOE's black box projects
> of the human radiation experiments here, as well as studying how
> radioactively contaminated waste travels through soil, etc., and the
> infamous milk survey programs. I'm sure we'll never know the true
> values of anything they've had their hands on. In fact, the milk
> survey program results of a local dairy farm that was adjacent to our
> plutonium facility, has not turned up one single document on this
> dairy farm...not one.
> The University of Pittsburgh's solutions in their environmental
> analysis has been dilution, which echoes the positions of the true
> environmental terrorists, the companies, along with the adjunct to
> their industries, the governmental agencies which should be protecting
> us, making everything an uphill battle...one of these days,
> something's got to give.
> I am just one of the many 'open-air' lab rats they've utilized...seems
> to me, the Nuremberg Code comes to mind...still fighting here...until
> my last breath.
>
> Patricia J. Ameno
> Chairperson-C.A.S.E.
> 724-845-9573 or 724-845-3133
>
> PS If anyone might have any information regarding the milk survey
> programs of the 50's/60's/70's, etc.,about the 'Farmers Delight Dairy
> Farm' in Parks Township or Leechburg, Pennsylvania, I sure would
> appreciate it.
> Thank you so very much.
>
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>
> From: "Eric Epstein" eepstein@igc.apc.org>
>
> Science for Sale:
> TMI and the University of Pittsburgh
>
> by Eric Joseph Epstein
>
>
> The University of Pittsburgh's most recent
> "health study, released on
> Halloween, is essentially a recitation of
> discredited protocol and disputed
> data. Re-released on October 31, 2002, the Study
> actually acknowledged an
> increase in lymphatic and blood cancers among men.
> However, as in previous
> of University Pittsburgh Studies conducted by the
> same group of researchers,
> e.g., (Evelynn Talbott et al; 2000), this survey
> relied on government and
> nuclear industry sponsored 'health studies' were
> completed in the early
> 1980s. These studies were based on inaccurate dose
> projections, did not
> factor data only available in 1985 regarding the
> severity and conditions of
> the partial-core meltdown at Three Mile Island
> Unit-2, and did not factor
> the prevailing weather conditions and wind patters
> in march-April, 1979.
>
> Nor did any of these studies evaluate the health
> impact to members of our
> community who defueled Three Mile Island. In
> fact, General Public Utilities
> choose not maintain a health or cancer registry,
> despite the fact, that
> from 1979-1989, 5,000 clean-up workers received
> 'measurable doses' of
> radiation exposure.
>
> Moreover, the University of Pittsburgh's Study
> relied heavily on the much
> maligned Pennsylvania Department of Health's
> seventeen year-old survey
> released in September, 1985. That study's protocol
> was ridiculed and
> criticized by epidemiologists at Harvard (Dr.
> George Hutchison), and Penn
> State (Dr. Robert A Hultquist) for "diluting"
> increases in cancer by
> "expanding" the population base to include people
> living outside of ten-mile
> study-zone. (October; 1985).
>
> 1
>
> A great deal of radiation was indeed
> released by the partial core melt
> at TMI. The President's commission estimated
> about 15 million curies of
> radiation were released into the atmosphere. A
> review of dose assessments,
> conducted by Dr. Jan Beyea, (National Audubon
> Society; 1984) estimated that
> from 276 to 63,000 person-rem were delivered to
> the general population
> within 50 miles of TMI. More recently, David
> Lochbaum of the Union of
> Concern Scientists, estimated between 40 million
> curies and 100 million
> curies escaped during the accident.
>
> For 11 days, in June-July, 1980, Met Ed
> illegally vented 43,000 curies
> of radioactive Krypton-85 (beta and gamma; 10 year
> half life) and other
> radioactive gasses into the environment without
> having scrubbers in place
> And by 1993, TMI-2 evaporated 2.3 million
> gallons of accident generated
> radioactive generated water, including tritium a
> radioactive form of
> hydrogen (half life; 12. 5 years), into the
> atmosphere despite legal
> objections from community-based organizations
>
> The plant's owners, co-defendants and
> insurers have paid over $80
> million in health, economic and evacuation claims,
> including a $1.1 million
> settlement for a baby born with Down's Syndrome.
> In June 2000, the United
> States Supreme Court remanded 1,990 unsettled
> health suits from the
> TMI-accident back to Federal Court. (GPU V.
> Abrams; Dolan v. GPU.)
>
> In August 1996, a study by the University
> of North Carolina-Chapel
> Hill, authored by Dr. Steven Wing, reviewed the
> Susser-Hatch study
> (Columbia University; 1991). Dr. Wing reported
> that "...there were reports
> of erythema, hair loss, vomiting, and pet death
> near TMI at the time of the
> accident...Accident doses were positively
> associated with cancer incidence.
> Associations were largest for leukemia,
> intermediate for lung cancer, and
> smallest for all cancers combined...Inhaled
> radionuclide contamination
> could differentially impact lung cancers, which
> show a clear dose-related
> increase."
> 2
>
> Today, TMI-2 remains a high level radioactive
> waste in the middle of the
> Susquehanna River. There was no decommissioning
> fund established for TMI at
> the time of the accident. The site of the nations'
> worst commercial nuclear
> accident has not been decontaminated or
> decommissioned. There has not been a
> human entry in the basement of the reactor
> building since March, 1979...
>
>
> Mr. Epstein is the Chairman of Three Mile
> Island Alert , Inc., a
> safe-energy
> organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and
> founded in 1977.
> http://wow.tmia.com.
>
> He is also the Coordinator of the EFMR
> Monitoring group, a
> non-partisan community based organization that
> monitors Peach Bottom and
> Three Mile Island nuclear generating stations.
> http://www.enviroweb.org/efmr/newsletters.html
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: TMI Epidemiology Lies & TMI and the Uinversity of Pitt
> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:05:39 EST
> From: Pameno47@aol.com
> To: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com
>
> Thanks for this info.
> It is with no surprise to me that the University of Pittsburgh was and
> is involved in the dissemination of misinformation. For decades, they
> were involved with the facilities that I have been fighting for over
> 13 years in the Kiski Valley, NUMEC/ARCO/B&W nuclear fuels processing
> plants and a waste dump.
> University of Pittsburgh was also involved in DOE's black box projects
> of the human radiation experiments here, as well as studying how
> radioactively contaminated waste travels through soil, etc., and the
> infamous milk survey programs. I'm sure we'll never know the true
> values of anything they've had their hands on. In fact, the milk
> survey program results of a local dairy farm that was adjacent to our
> plutonium facility, has not turned up one single document on this
> dairy farm...not one.
> The University of Pittsburgh's solutions in their environmental
> analysis has been dilution, which echoes the positions of the true
> environmental terrorists, the companies, along with the adjunct to
> their industries, the governmental agencies which should be protecting
> us, making everything an uphill battle...one of these days,
> something's got to give.
> I am just one of the many 'open-air' lab rats they've utilized...seems
> to me, the Nuremberg Code comes to mind...still fighting here...until
> my last breath.
>
> Patricia J. Ameno
> Chairperson-C.A.S.E.
> 724-845-9573 or 724-845-3133
>
> PS If anyone might have any information regarding the milk survey
> programs of the 50's/60's/70's, etc.,about the 'Farmers Delight Dairy
> Farm' in Parks Township or Leechburg, Pennsylvania, I sure would
> appreciate it.
> Thank you so very much.
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