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Source URL:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-04-27/nuclear-study-will-assess-cancer-risk
By
Rob Pavey
Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Plant
Vogtle and Savannah River Site should be included in a new national
study of cancer risks for people living near nuclear facilities,
according to environmental groups.
"It's exactly what we've been
asking for -- for years," said Bobbie Paul, the executive director of
Georgia Women's Action for New Direction, which has lobbied for more
radiological monitoring in the area.
On Tuesday, the National
Academy of Sciences affirmed an April 7 request from the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission to update the 1990 National Institutes of Health
and National Cancer Institute report, Cancer in Populations Living Near
Nuclear Facilities .
The 20-year-old study, which examined deaths
from 16 types of cancer, found no increased risk of death among people
living in 107 counties containing or adjacent to 62 nuclear facilities.
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for further information, contact:
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
or local contacts listed at end of advisory
for immediate release Friday, January 29, 2010
BLUE RIBBON NUCLEAR WASTE COMMISSION IS SERIOUSLY IMBALANCED
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) is disappointed that the Department of Energy did not follow our repeated requests to appoint a balanced Blue Ribbon Commission on nuclear wastes with a broad range of perspectives, including members from directly affected sites. “The Commission faces a huge credibility problem. It includes no one from communities downstream and downwind of major nuclear weapons sites,” said Susan Gordon, Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, “However, we are still hopeful that the Commission will find ways to consider a broad range of perspectives, including independent experts, public interest organizations, environmental and public health stakeholders, and impacted parties, including Native American Tribes.”
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By Annette Cary, Herald staff writer
January 27, 2010
http://www.hanfordnews.com/news/2010/story/14707.html
RICHLAND -- Speakers at a public hearing Tuesday night split their comments between calling for the Fast Flux Test Facility to be saved and worries that proposed cleanup plans for Hanford would not protect the environment and human health.
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By Arley Hoskin, KC Nursing News
Originally appeared here
December 7, 2009
Most nurses strive to avoid death, but on Wednesday evenings, Ann Suellentrop, RN, dresses as death.
Suellentrop works for Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention of nuclear weapons production and use.
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Seventy Nine Truckloads from Huntington’s Nickel Plant Buried
Once Radioactivity Released, You Can’t Put This 'Genie' Back in Bottle; Former Worker Alleges Plutonium Contamination
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Editor’s
Note: Vina Colley, a former worker at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion
Plant, has been one of the most outspoken workers suffering cancer and
other illnesses from their years working at the facility near
Portsmouth, Ohio. Although the interview is in a Q and A format, it
should be noted that Ms. Colley often had to stop speaking to get her
breath. Occasionally, her thoughts were completed by a member of the
clean up panel.
HNN: You worked as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant?
VINA COLLEY: As a Second Class Electrician I worked in every building on the plant site and many of the buildings off site.
HNN: Right now, like other employees , you suffer from multiple aliments attributed to your years at the plant.
VINA
COLLEY: I have 57% lung impairment due to the chronic bronchitis. A low
immune system where I had to take gamma glammas? Before. Memory lapses.
Home oxygen. Three tumors, a total hysterectomy and skin cancer.
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PLUTONIUM AND PEOPLE DON’T MIX
WHY THE ROCKY FLATS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
SHOULD REMAIN CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
by LeRoy Moore, PhD, Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center, October 13, 2009
Soon after completion in 2005 of the “cleanup” of the site of the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear bomb plant near Denver, the Department of Energy (DOE) transferred about three-fourths of the nearly 10 square mile Rocky Flats site to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to operate as a wildlife refuge. FWS had already decided to open the future refuge for public recreation. This paper elaborates three reasons why this decision should be reversed:
• The site is contaminated with an unknown quantity of plutonium and americium.
• Standards for permissible exposure to plutonium and americium adopted for the site provide inadequate protection for potential visitors to the refuge because the standards are based on a flawed method of risk assessment and a truncated view of the toxicity of these materials.
• In addition, those responsible for the Rocky Flats “cleanup” did not consider some crucial data regarding environmental conditions at the site.
• Together, these points add up to a great weight of uncertainty that underscores the need for caution. The conclusion to this paper looks at alternatives for dealing with the refuge, including a visionary approach for nuclear guardianship.
To read full paper, click here
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Plan to Pay Sick Nuclear Workers Unfairly Rejects Many, Doctor Says
by Laura Frank, Special to ProPublica - July 31, 2009 11:00 am EDT
Carla McCabe spent a decade building nuclear bombs at the sprawling Rocky Flats complex near Denver. When she developed a brain tumor and asked for help, federal officials told her that none of the toxic substances used at the top-secret bomb factory could have caused her cancer.
Now, on the eighth anniversary of the federal program created to help
sick nuclear weapons workers, the man who until recently was the
program's top doctor says that McCabe, now 55, and many others like her
are being improperly rejected.
This article was originally published in ProPublica, an independent, non-profit online news source that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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By Karen Dillon
The Kansas City Star
7/9/09
Kansas City is on the short list to become the Yucca Mountain for mercury.
And that’s not a list some officials want to be on.
A
new law requires that all of the nation’s waste mercury — now estimated
at about 10,000 tons — must be stored in one facility, or at most, just
a few facilities by 2013.
So the Department of Energy has
selected seven potential sites to be the national facility for mercury
just as Nevada’s Yucca Mountain was once designated to become the
storage location for radioactive waste.
The Energy Department
has pinpointed the Kansas City Plant, formerly AlliedSignal, on
Bannister Road. The massive plant, with its thick concrete walls and
floors and 500-year flood protections, has manufactured non-nuclear
components for nuclear weapons for half a century.
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2009 Fact Sheet Complex Transformation Wrong Policy, Wrong Priority, Wrong Direction | |
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The “Complex Transformation” (formerly Complex 2030) plan ignores U.S. disarmament obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and threatens to derail diplomatic efforts to stem nuclear weapons development by other nations. It also would create serious environmental and health risks for communities downwind and downstream of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
Download 2009 Fact Sheet: Complex final5.pdf
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Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) prohibits countries from conducting nuclear weapon explosions and establishes an extensive verification system through the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). U.S. ratification of the CTBT would be a key component in repairing an already damaged non-proliferation regime.
Download 2009 Fact Sheet: CTBT Fact Sheet 2009.pdf
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