Re: Tooth Fairy (Project) Comes to Hackensack UniversityMedical Center

[Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM>]

Steven Dapra wrote:



>         "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.

> 



I've said it before and I'll say it again - this is NOT the premise of

the TFP!  It is very clear from what they say that they do not cite

Sr-90 as causing anything - they cite it as a MARKER EMISSION and then

use the argument that if a clearly man made isotope is in the

environment near a NPP - then other fission products MUST be there as

well and they MUST be coming from the NPP as the ONLY possible local

source.



THEN they SUGGEST that these unquantified emissions in toto must be

responsible for their carefully selected "cancer clusters".



This all being said without the slightest suggestion of support for the

TFP or related activities - just trying to set the record straight on

exactly what is being claimed.

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