Group Seeks Teeth For Radiation Study

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Group Seeks Teeth For Radiation Study - (STATEWIDE) -- A New 
York-based group is looking for baby teeth. But the Tooth Fairy 
Project organized by the Radiation and Public Health Project has a 
practical purpose... to determine whether children who live near 
New Jersey nuclear plants have been absorbing radioactive 
strontium-90. Letters have gone out to Ocean County residents 
living near the Oyster Creek generating station. The group is also 
collecting teeth from Salem County, near Salem One and Two. The 
operators of the New Jersey reactors say that there is little danger 
from radiation. But Doctor Jay Gould, who is organizing the study, 
says the group has found higher rates of breast cancer among 
people who live near reactors in other states. 

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Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

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