Re: Tooth Fairy (Project) Comes to Hackensack

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

Nov. 17



	Begging your pardon, Ted, I did not write this (below) about the basic

premise of the TFP or its anti-nuclear agenda.  I was quoting Stewart

Farber, and I'm fairly certain I specified this in my posting to RADSAFE.



	Now that you mention it though, I do vaguely recall Norm Cohen making this

same point in the past -- that the Sr-90 is a marker radionuclide, and that

the TPF is not claiming that the Sr-90 is causing any illnesses.



	Thank you for bringing this to my attention.  I strive to be as accurate

as I can and I am grateful for your correction.



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com





Ted de Castro wrote:





>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  It is very clear from what they say that they do not cite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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