re: Hanford Site Cleanup Standards

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

I would like to see a response to the statement, made by me and others in various forms, that there has been no documented health effect among the non-worker public from radioactive contamination at Hanford.



Also, here are analogies for the "that was then,this is now" idea:  forty years ago, carbon tetrachloride was sold under the trade name Carbona in grocery stores as a cleaning fluid, especially good on shoes.  Are cancer patients who used Carbona retrospectively demanding compensation from the manufacturers, because it was later found to be a potential carcinogen and taken off the market? Are people maimed in car accidents 30 or more years ago suing manufacturers because seat belts were not mandatory and air bags weren't made for passenger cars?  Half a century ago, DDT was available to spray with your Flit gun around your kitchen.  Are we demanding cleanup of municipal landfills to get rid of Flit containers (and what would we do with them anyway once we found them)?



Closer to topic:  am I suing the dentist who, 60 years ago, x-rayed my teeth with slow x-ray film? the hospital, where I had my first hip surgery 25 years ago,  that took seven x-rays of my unshielded pelvic region in four days (now they do one)?



You get the picture.  It is easy to beat up on the government and the defense facilities, especially since Watkins and O'Leary led the way in this effort, and that's why it is done.



Ruth

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Ruth F. Weiner

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