"The Atomic States of America": Exploring a Nation's Struggle With Nuclear Power. 2 of 2

[gfxinventor]

60 years after the Bikini A-/H-bomb tests, the Discovery Sciences Video “Bikini - Radioactive Paradise” reveals Cs-137 was found to have been biomagnified by coconut trees & other vegetation, thereby making Bikini uninhabitable. It's 55 years since the last of 29 fuel rod explosions spewed Cs-137 & I-131 in all directions from BNL, yet LI-cancer rates continue to rise. WHY? {Table E-2, "RADIOLOGICAL EMISSIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING FOR [BNL], 1947 -1961", May 2001 by C.B. Meinhold, et al}

[gfxinventor]

AMY GOODMAN commented: "Sheena, the latest news out of Vermont is that the state wanted to close the nuclear power plant, with the full support of Governor Shumlin...But a court has prevented it from happening." So why didn't Governor Shumin have Vermont Yankee declared a Superfund Site like BNL and most of the sites covered by the EEOICPA; a federal program that has paid several billions; mostly in death benefits? BNL kept this program a secret for years in violation of Clinton's E.O. 13179.

[Hatheway100]

Intellectual and good-science honest requires the "re-focus" called for by gfxinventor!

Public health of Brookhaven-environ citizens should not be trashed in the mixmaster

of anti-nuclear electric generation rhetoric.

[gfxinventor]

@Hatheway100 Not only is there a lack of "good science", SCDHS scientists in charge of our drinking/irrigation water are dangerous. Amy thought only 1 in 9 LI women suffer from breast cancer, but Kelly said "That’s actually—that was the original number back in, I believe, the '80s. And now I think the numbers are one in six or one in seven."

Yet there's no discussion of reasons for such a huge increase in breast cancer rate.

Here's a clue: The SCDHS doesn't comply with the Radionuclides Rule.

[gfxinventor]

@Hatheway100 Here's another clue: Few scientists know (a) the Safe Drinking Water Act, except for its Radionuclides Rule, doesn't prohibit toxic-blends -- even those containing heavy metals like Cesium, Lead, Thallium, Mercury and others that are biomagnified by living organisms, (b) the Radionuclides Rule sets an MCL of 4 millirems per year for Photon + Gross Beta radiation, & (c) the SCDHS doesn't measure Photon [Gamma] radiation; only Gross Beta, for which it uses wrong MCL of 50 pCi/L.

[gfxinventor]

@Hatheway100 Here's 2 final clues: (d) NYSDOH allows blending "If an acceptable source of drinking water is not available for use, treatment is the preferred option over blending. Blending shall not be allowed if a generally acceptable and available treatment technology or new source exists at a reasonable or lesser cost" & (e) the maximum annual radiation dose of 4 millirem covers blended sources with different radionuclides, yet the SCDHS doesn't test for deadly Gamma radiation; only Beta!

[gfxinventor]

BNL’s ROBERT CASEY lied when he stated: “It’s certainly not a risk to people outside the lab”; concealing huge releases of long-lived radioisotopes from the BGRR; a research-reactor built with no containment building atop a drinking water aquifer that also irrigated local farms. It’s first uranium fuel rod exploded on 1/2/52; the 28th & 29th ruptured on 10/3 & 28/57. {Table E-2, "RADIOLOGICAL EMISSIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING FOR [BNL], 1947 -1961", May 2001 by C.B. Meinhold, et al}

[gfxinventor]

@OldSchoolSkill Had you read "Welcome to Shoreham" you would have known it was not about different types of nuclear reactors; it was about a group of ghouls that created a Superfund site by covering up environmental crimes such as: (a) 55 burial pits filled with radioactive animals; (b) workers having huge amounts of Cs-137 in their urine, (c) milk from dairies with Cs-137 & & I-131 levels ~100 times the EPA-MCL of 3 pCi/L, (d) massive fallout from 29 fuel rod explosions from 1952 to 1957, etc

[Hatheway100]

Very compelling ... UNTIL the coverage devolved from the appropriate and righteously-focused concern over radionuclide leakage, spillage and dumping at Brookhaven Laboratory, into the "same old" broad and unfocused anti-nuclear campaign.

[gfxinventor]

@Hatheway100 Let's refocus: The EPA & Suffolk County Health Department not only failed to warn people living within a 20-30 mile radius of BNL to evacuate, they failed stop the export of farm produce grown in radioactive soil -- or milk having over 100 times the EPA-MCL for Cs-137 and I-131 of 3 pCi/L of milk. ["RADIOLOGICAL EMISSIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING FOR BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY, 1947 -1961", May 2001, by C.B. Meinhold and A.F. Meinhold, Brookhaven Science Associates]

[snappycatchy]

John Snow casts a long shadow.

[getincarihavecandy]

Excellent

[strangesky]

Join us; google:  Rally at Hanford April 15 2012

[gfxinventor]

@strangesky When my group (Boeing/Rockwell) began managing Hanford in 1977, I thought it was the most toxic place on earth. But "Welcome to Shirley" shows BNL may be worse because Table SSR in the BNL Health Assessment shows long-lived Cs-137 levels up to 44 Billion pCi/kg of soil - higher than Fukushima & Chernobyl combined. A person standing on the #SB37A-C hot-spot would receive an EPA evacuation dose of 50 mSv/yr in about 17 minutes from Cs-137 alone, yet no evacuation was ordered!