Niagara Falls citation--Hunger, Knowledge, Thought

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Dear Radsafers:


Since we are all hungry for knowledge I will offer some more food for thought.


The "Atoms for Peace" comment in my earlier post was in reference to being cordial and G.Washingtonian in the discourse here. 

I would hope that comments made about another Doctor, Scientist, Health Physicist, Gardener or whomever would be kept professional and not degrade so much as to be called "dis-Coarse."


REFERENCE-

NIAGARA FALLS AS BEING LARGEST U Metal Production Location is as follows;

Department of Energy-DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments  

Appendix-A

Electro Metallurgical Company (Niagara Falls, New York), a subsidiary of Union Carbide, was the MED's largest ore-to-metal uranium production plant. 

>From 1942 to 1953, the plant processed uranium tetrafluoride (green salt) into uranium metal. The plant was also called the Union Carbide and Chemical Electro-Metallurgical Division Works. 

CAN BE FOUND AT- 

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/new/findingaids/epidemiologic/orise/app.html

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"Buried" is only one manifestation of the U/Th/R, etc. MED legacy at Niagara (thank you writer for your gracious "annotation" on the use of a word in my first posting to Radsafe:.)

HERE'S another HP Factoid- 

There were no metallurgists in the Chicago Metallurgical Lab, according to Laura Fermi in the book ATOMS IN THE FAMILY. And according to my research, Fermi and Szliard obtained all of their graphite materials and much of the U for CP-1, CP-2 from Niagara. A vast number of the nation's most adroit metallurgists were working at Union Carbide and other locations in Niagara Falls, New York, during this period and beyond.

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REFERENCE FOR NIAGARA AS LEADING HEART DISEASE in the nation is as follows-

1.

Friday, May 30, 2003

BUFFALO NEWS NIAGARA SECTION

City&Region 

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks Thursday in Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.


NIAGARA FALLS - Niagara County leads the nation in heart disease, hospital officials said Thursday. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., who was at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center vowing to push for federal funds to help build a new $10 million cardiac center, was stunned by that information...


2.

http://www.lockport-ny.com/flashes.htm

Federal reports says Niagara County has high deaths due to heart, cancer afflictions.  The report from the The Health Resources and Services Administration states deaths from lung cancer, breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease were significantly above the national average. The report compared Niagara County with counties with similar demographics in 14 other states and in Broome and Oneida Counties in New York.   (8/4)

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*Writers notation--Since there is an admitted cause and effect relationship between low level-long term exposures to rad and heart disease, and since there is a massive quantity of U (and others--including fission products) "legacy" materials kicking around Niagara Falls--the million pounds quoted in my earlier post was conservative to an absolute laughable degree (I encourage you to do some reading on the Niagara Falls/Western New York MED project activities/phenomenon.) Niagara Falls, by the very wording of the included DOE listing, means that Niagara is the oldest un-addressed atomic site in the nation. I think at this point in the discussion it might be unwise and unscientific to casually dismiss a possible correlation between the two. Not one human health study has been done to date around these sites (and there are many others in that area--that FUSRAP has not, and cannot address).  


WITH REGARD TO GOFMAN

I will continue my reading but I hope I'm not being overly sensitive to sjd@swcp.com's use of ---

>"If NN were to examine the pages of history he would probably find that they are replete with examples of great men and women who made important >discoveries or had great accomplishments and then apostatized in some fashion." 

            

I feel that "Apostatized" is quite the unusual word to use with its religious connotation. Has John Gofman been excommunicated by God as well as the HP community?  Icarus "fell from grace" too.


>"Again, the length of Gofman's career has nothing to do with the merits of his claims."

If the above were correct then why can't you get a job right away until getting some "experience"? 

Would you prefer an intern or resident over a surgeon?


And lastly (for now), isn't it just a bit ironic, after reading the DOE citation included, that this professional bulletin board has never heard of the massive activities that occurred at Niagara Falls? What would the possible health ramifications be associated with these legacy activities, places and "burials" that have gone unaddressed for sixty plus years at Niagara Falls, New York, locations? 


Comments?


Cheers to all and Atoms for Peace,

L.H. Ricciuti

NiagaraNet@aol.com 


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