[ RadSafe ] " NRC Review Disputes Tooth Fairy Radiation Claims "

[John Jacobus]

But will this stop the "silliness" of the TFP?  I
think not.

--- "Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj at aecl.ca> wrote:

> http://www.nei.org/index.asp?catnum=4&catid=329
> NRC Review Disputes Tooth Fairy Radiation Claims 
> Summary
> 
> In response to a request from the New Jersey
> Department of Environmental
> Protection, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
> recently issued a report
> that supports the conclusion of previous studies
> that claims of a link
> between Strontium-90 and cancer are unsubstantiated
> by sound science. In its
> report, the NRC stated that "there is little reason
> to believe that airborne
> emissions from any civilian nuclear power plant are
> contributing to
> childhood cancer in populations living near these
> plants." 
> 
> The request from the New Jersey authorities centered
> on an article published
> in the International Journal of Health Services,
> "Strontium-90 in deciduous
> teeth as a factor in early childhood cancer." Jay
> Gould, a co-founder of the
> anti-nuclear Radiation and Public Health Project
> (RPHP) organization,
> authored the article. RPHP is an anti-nuclear
> citizens group based in
> Manhattan that has a long-range goal of closing down
> nuclear power plants in
> the United States. The group claims that
> Strontium-90 shows up in teeth of
> infants and is directly responsible for an increase
> in breast cancer rates
> on Long Island. 
> 
> The NRC's review of the issue clearly explains how
> Strontium-90 is a major
> by-product of Cold War aboveground nuclear weapons
> testing conducted by the
> United States and the Soviet Union. The two
> countries signed the Nuclear
> Test Ban Treaty in 1963, effectively ending
> aboveground testing. Much of the
> Strontium-90 remaining in the environment is
> directly linked to the weapons
> testing and little Strontium-90 is produced at the
> nation's nuclear power
> plants. In fact, any Strontium-90 releases are so
> small as to be
> undetectable when compared to amounts already in the
> environment. A general
> consensus of the scientific community is that it is
> misleading and reckless
> to equate the mere presence of a radioactive
> isotope, many of which are
> produced naturally by the environment and the human
> body, with adverse
> health effects. 
> 
> The NRC substantiates its case by citing studies
> done by the National
> Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute,
> the Agency for Toxic
> Substances and Disease Registry and an epidemiology
> study conducted in
> Suffolk County in New York that dispute the RPHP's
> report. Other studies
> including one from the American Cancer Institute's
> New Jersey Division in
> 1997 and a report from the United Nation's
> Scientific Committee on the
> Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) released in
> fall 2000 further support
> the NRC's review. In fact, the UNSCEAR definitively
> reported that radiation
> emanating from nuclear power plants is "one
> twelve-thousandth of natural
> background radiation."
> 
> Information
> 
> 
> Letter from New Jersey Department of Environmental
> Protection to U.S.
> Nuclear Regulatory Commission
>
<http://www.nei.org/../documents/NJDEPLettertoUSNRC.pdf>
> 
> Letter from U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to
> New Jersey Department of
> Environmental Protection
>
<http://www.nei.org/../documents/USNRCLettertoNJDEP.pdf>
> 
> U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Enclosure 1:
> Issues Raised By Gould, et.
> al.
>
<http://www.nei.org/../documents/USNRCIssuesRaisedbyGouldetal.pdf>
> 
> U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Enclosure 2:
> Talking Points
>
<http://www.nei.org/../documents/USNRCTalkingPoints.pdf>
> 
> U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Enclosure 3:
> Strontium
> <http://www.nei.org/../documents/USNRCStrontium.pdf>
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enough people to make it worth the effort." Herm Albright

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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