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Re: Tooth Fairy (Project) Comes to Hackensack University Medical Center
It's often worthwhile to look for the unexpected. Nuclear power plants are required
to have a Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program, even when effluent monitor
results show that there's no possibility of finding anything.
Virtually all research is undertaken in an attempt to prove a hypothesis.
The opinions expressed ares strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
Steven Dapra wrote:
> Nov. 15
>
> Bill Lipton wrote:
>
> "While I don't necessarily agree with either the purpose or goals of the
> "Tooth Fairy Project," I am most disappointed in the responses I've seen on
> Radsafe. They seem to consist primarily of attacks on the motivations and
> competence of those involved, rather than any semi-professional evaluation
> of the work or the issues. It seems that anyone who disagrees with 'the
> party line' is attacked as biased or incompetent.
>
> "This knee jerk response does a great disservice to all of us.
>
> "At this point, the TSP seems to be in a data collecting stage. Some
> recommendations regarding methodology may be in order, but, regardless of
> the motivations of the project participants, they deserve the right to
> present their views."
>
> My Comments:
>
> The motivation of the Tooth Fairy Project (TFP) is to gather "evidence" to
> support its agenda of shutting down power reactors. If that is not the
> TPF's motivation (Bill), what is its motivation?
>
> Stewart Farber very aptly pointed out the following:
>
> " . . . the routine emissions of Sr-90 from any nuclear power plant are
> insufficient to even maintain the existing environmental inventory of Sr-90
> in the terrestrial or aquatic environment from earlier bomb test fallout in
> the 1960s, never mind increase exposure to any person living in the
> vicinity. Each year the megacuries of Sr-90 which remain in the
> environment from open air testing of nuclear weapons by the US and the
> Soviets which ended in 1963, decay by an amount that far exceeds the sum of
> all emissions from US nuclear power plants in the present or anytime in the
> past.
>
> " . . . [edit] . . . Releases from today's nuclear plant operations CANNOT
> KEEP THE CURRENT SR-90 environmental inventory constant never mind increase
> overall exposure from Sr-90.
>
> "The basic premise of the Tooth Fairy project that a few micro-Ci or
> milli-Ci of Sr-90 release per year from any one nuclear power plant is
> increasing Sr-90 exposure and cancer risk to children in the general
> environment near a facility today, given the much, much greater [but still
> trivial] amount of Sr-90 in the environment and diet from residual Sr-90 in
> the environment from prior bomb test fallout, is simply absurd,
> unscientific, and a fraud intended to promote an anti-nuclear agenda.
>
> Assuming that all this is true, and I suspect that it is, it seems to me
> that RADSAFEers who are doing so would be remiss in <not> attacking the
> competence of the TFP.
>
> Bank robbers, car thieves, and people who support the legalization of
> drugs also "deserve the right to present their views," but those of us who
> know better should be prompt to point out in no uncertain terms that such
> views are nonsense.
>
> I also endorse Jerry Cohen's Nov. 14 suggestion to Bill Lipton: " . . .
> perhaps you might offer a technically feasible explanation of how Sr-90 in
> children's teeth might conceivably be indicative of releases from nuclear
> power plants, particularly in light of Sr-90 levels in global fallout.
> Absent such a reasonable explanation, why would it matter what methods are
> used to assess Sr-90 levels in children's teeth?"
>
> Steven Dapra
> sjd@swcp.com
>
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