Niagara, Franz, Kidneys around MED AEC sites

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  Franz:   (After reading this, would you recommend an investigation?)

 

  Interestingly, kidney disease is being seen not only in the *surviving 

workers in addition to their cancers, but also in the general population of 

Western New York around the old MED AEC facilities. I find no surprise in this. 

*See: Lewis Malcolm of Lockport, New York's MED AEC contractor, Simonds Saw and 

Steel. While dying of cancer, Mr. Malcolm died of kidney failure. I know who 

gave him his last dialysis treatment.



   You have made a very good, albeit obvious observation and salient point 

about the areas in question, industrial activities involving the MED AEC and the 

chemical toxicity of these heavy metals. I appreciate your keen observation 

and comment that further supports my concerns, claims and impressions about a 

subject I feel very intimate with. Thank you Franz.  Sincerely, Lou Ricciuti

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:43:04 +0100

From: "Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>

Subject: AW: Bethlehem workers and Western NY State



- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Steven Dapra

Gesendet: Samstag, 27. März 2004 09:24

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Betreff: Re: Bethlehem workers and Western NY State



March 27



    Posted by Louis Ricciuti (at the request of Marvin Resnikoff):  

"Ingestion

of uranium would be much more effective in yielding a radiation dose to the

colon and stomach; several of these workers developed colon cancer."



    Is radiation exposure a known risk factor for colon cancer?

---------

Steven,



I wish you "good luck" for receiving an answer by Louis or Marvin....



It is more than well known - except for the anti-DU folks and some others

like Louis or Marvin - that uranium is by far more chemotoxic than it is

radiotoxic. The US drinking water regulations have a maximum concentration

level for uranium, based on mass and not on activity concentration. The mass

concentration of the US level corresponds to a much lower activity, than is

for instance in the European Union allowed for the activity concentration.

The EU has - unfortunately - no mass concentration based limits!



Before somebody would die of any cancer developed by uranium radiation

exposure, he or she would die of kidney failure. Uranium is a very poisonous

heavy metal and it acts like such one in the human body.



I thought better to stay out of the "Bethlehem"-discussion, but reading this

last contribution made me write.



If somebody who worked with uranium would claim, that he developed kidney 

problems by the uptake of uranium I would understand it and recommend a careful 

investigation. But radiation injuries caused by uranium without any much more 

severe chemotoxic problems are simply ridiculous.



Franz



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References: Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center-Dialysis Unit (personal 

interview), USA Today Newspaper-Sept. 6-8, 11, 2000, Lockport, New York, Union 

Sun and Journal Newspaper, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists-July August 2001.