Re: EPA to look at how toxins affect kids

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@comcast.net>]

HI all,



Trying to answer everyone with one post, to make it easier for radsafers 

to delete. ;-)





Perhaps I wasn't clear in my first post. What the TFP claims is that 

their (Mangano's) statistics show that continual doses

of low level radiation from nuke plants affect the health of those most 

at risk - fetuses, infants, elderly, those with compromised immune 

systems. Sr90 in baby teeth is merely a way of tracking low leveel 

emissions from nukes. If sr90 has a half life of 29 years, then sr90 in 

baby teeth should be trending down, not levelling off or going up. The 

point is that if the extra sr90 (yes picocuries) is from nuke plants, 

than the infant that ingested sr90 probably also was affected by all the 

other radionuclides nukes emit.



It seems to me that the EPA is concurring with at least part of the TFP 

thesis - that indeed the groups named above are more at risk from cancer 

causing toxins, including ionizing radiation.



Nowhere do I claim that sr90 alone causes cancer in these groups of 

people. The question is whether or not nukes emit enough radionuclides 

that are taken into the body, stay there, and emit radiation that 

weakens the immune system, thus leading to higher levels of cancers like 

lymphoma.



Norm



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