High Breast Cancer Levels on Long Island around nuclear power plants

Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:28 pm (PST)
Women living on Long Island, (NY) have among the nation's highest
incidence of breast cancer. Long Island is situated in very close
proximity to four nuclear power reactors in New London and
Middletown, CT, and Peekskill, NY, with the
Brookhaven nuclear lab right in the middle of Long Island. Increases in breast cancer deaths in both Long Island counties parallel the increase in breast cancer
deaths in Connecticut, where two reactors are located. --
Sherman, J., MD, Life's Delicate Balance: Causes ad Prevention of
Breast Cancer, Taylor & Francis.
http://www.radiation.org/journal/nuclink_sept14.html
http://www.greens.org/s-r/10/10-08.html
The highest breast cancer rate (4.0 per 1000) is found in women living on the north fork of Peconic Bay, downstream from BNL and only 11 miles downwind from the troubled Millstone nuclear reactors.33
To coordinate the findings of cancer and nuclear pollution in areas of Long Island and elsewhere, as Toms River, New Jersey, the RPHP has initiated the "Tooth Fairy Project" to collect baby teeth for measurement of strontium 90. By calling 1-800-582-3716, parents, teachers, and public health personnel can get instructions on how to send baby teeth for analysis. Perhaps the most critical aspect of the study is the realization that measuring levels of radionuclides in baby teeth gives irrefutable clinical and geographic evidence of prior contamination.
http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Breast-Cancer-LI-Sherman29feb00.htm


http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/2000Newsletters/Newsletter060C.html

Breast Cancer Rates
Incidence Mortality
New York State 131.4 28.9
Nassau County 144.3 30.3
Suffolk County 147.1 31.4

http://epi.grants.cancer.gov/LIBCSP/

They experiment on poor animals there. Bio warfare what fun. Keeps one wondering.

We were fishing years ago and drifted a bit to far. Here comes the navy wondering what we were doing. It was an interesting moment in my life.

Never ever want to be down wind of that place.

i remember nassau county had a really high rate.

And that was that. Bye bye, boob. I got great care, and/but I was pretty young.

suspected the pesticides used on potato farming on Long Island.
Sorry you had to go through that.

heavy metals.

We lived close to Hooker Chemical and a short drive to Brookhaven. Flip a coin.

Nuclear Clean-Up In UK is Halted on Cost Fears

Oct 26 - Evening Standard; London (UK)

Fears are rising over the spiralling cost of the nuclear clean- up after the agency in charge of decommissioning the defunct fleet of Magnox power stations admitted to funding problems.
Estimates for cleaning up the dead power stations over coming decades has risen recently to Pounds 73 billion.
Now the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA) is understood to have halted work on the 1950s and 1960s power stations that have been taken offline. It is understood that Magnox stations in the South are specifically affected, some of them alongside the present generation of nuclear plants.
They include Sizewell A, Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A, Bradwell and Berkeley.
It is believed the halt is to be signalled in the latest business plan of the NDA, which appears to indicate that resources should be centred in the North at Sellafield.
The news comes amid fears that the private sector may be unwilling to commit to the clean-up programme..

Train carrying spent nuke fuel derails on Shearon Harris grounds

RALEIGH, N.C. (The Associated Press) - Oct 26

Two cars on a train carrying spent radioactive nuclear fuel jumped the tracks at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant about 25 miles southwest of Raleigh, Progress Energy said Friday.
No one was injured in the accident and the waste - transported in 75-ton reinforced concrete casks - was undamaged, said plant spokeswoman Julie Hans.
The utility said it was barred by federal law from giving the time or day of the accident. The state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety was notified of the incident at 7:23 p.m. Thursday, shortly after it occurred, but spokeswoman Patty McQuillan also declined to release the specific time it happened because the utility did.
The utility blamed the accident on human error in preparing the tracks for the train's arrival.
"It was a miscommunication about whether or not the preparations on the actual track had been made in order to move the train," Hans said.
The full train remained upright after a caboose and an empty flatbed car, used as a buffer, jumped the tracks, the company said. The train was moving at about 4 mph to 5 mph.
The train, including the derailed cars, had been cleared off the tracks as of Friday morning, Hans said.
The Shearon Harris plant accepts overflow waste from one facility, Progress Energy's Brunswick nuclear plant south of Wilmington.
Hans declined to say whether any plant employee faces disciplinary action as a consequence of the error that led to the derailment.
"We are carefully reviewing the cause to make sure it doesn't happen again," Hans said.

pretty chilly here, in Houston, I got that 'smell'. I get it more in the fall or winter, but now I can smell what's in the air, and it ain't pretty. Again, can someone tell me this is A-OK? I don't think so.

God damn our federal government!!!

The Navajos were constructing their cement foundations from the tilling of the Uranium plant.

All the radiation levels are off the charts.

... but your post in .6 is a total non-event.

> No one was injured in the accident and the waste - transported in 75-ton
> reinforced concrete casks - was undamaged

Your original post wanted to draw attention to cancer clusters and that
is fine. There can be other causes (as replies pointed out) but the
correlation needs to be noted and brought up. Tagging on a zero-content
article like .6 just trivialises your point ... you might as well have
noted how many nuclear power workers died in car accidents that day ...

:shrug:

the South Shore within 20 minutes of Brookhaven National Lab. Some of the scientists were friends of my parents and I used to swim in the pool at the Lab all the time with the children of the scientists. My father died of a particularly virulent form of cancer and my mother of breast cancer. Other family members have died of other forms of cancer. I've always assumed the DNA in our family was cancer-prone, but everytime I read articles about places with "clusters" like Long Island I get a chill.

all are breast cancer survivors. We are all from Nassau County, Long Island. My dad had colon cancer (known as the male form of breat cancer). My brother and I stay on top of our check ups.

Why do we still have to hear from the illiterate Dr. Sternglass every couple of years?

Do you have even the faintest clue about Long Island?

I spent about 30 years of my life there, and if you don't know a fucking thing about the Long Island environment, like trash burning, dump leaching, air pollution and a whole lot of other stuff that one could know about by learning something called science, please shut the fuck up.

The anti-nuke religion is the moral equivalent of creationism. That religion is part of the reason that the entire South Shore of Long Island, including where my stepmother lives, is going to be under water.

The anti-nuke religion couldn't care less about Long Island, and it couldn't care less about Long Island health. The number of deaths from dangerous fossil fuels on Long Island almost certainly measures tens of thousands if not more.