Re: Niagara, Franz, Kidneys around MED AEC sites

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

What does "around" mean?  How many years did he live "around" the facility?  How much natural uranium in dust was he exposed to?  what is the rate of age-adjusted kidney failure deaths in people who live in similar environments but not "around" this facility?  (I had a colleague who lived 4000 miles from this facility who died of kidney failure.)  before anyone decides to do  an "investigation" (by whom?) these questions need to be answered.



Ruth



In a message dated 4/1/2004 10:31:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, NiagaraNet@AOL.COM writes:



>Re: RADSAFE Archive #1074

>

>  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

>----

>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

>

>*****

>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.

>





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