LOW-LEVEL RADIATION RISK 200 TIMES PREVIOUS ESTIMATES

PLEASE, YOU WHO READ HERE, IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO WORKED IN SUBMARINES OUT OF THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD, OR AT THE HANFORD NUCLEAR FACILITY IN WASHINGTON STATE, PASS THIS STUDY ON TO THEM.
I WISH I HAD DISCOVERED THIS SOONER, BUT SO MUCH IS HIDDEN FROMUS...IN PLAIN SIGHT.

ACTUALLY, THIS ALSO APPLIES TO WORKERS AT THE WIPP FACILITY IN NEW MEXICO AND ALL NUCLEAR FACILITY WORKERS...AND ALL OF US.

The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (pdf), Direct Estimates of Low-Level Radiation Risks of Lung Cancer at Two NRC-Compliant Nuclear Installations: Why Are the New Risk Estimates 20 to 200 Times the Old Official Estimates?, Dr. Irwin Bross, Director of Biostatistics at Roswell Park Memorial Institute.

THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THAT PDF, BUT PLEASE TRY TO READ IT ALL:

Nuclear submarine workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), who were exposed to low-level ionizing radiation [face] serious hazards.

The new risk estimates have been found to be much higher than the official estimates.

CDC/NIOSH refused to retract or correct the conclusion [that] “we found no positive dosage response relationships between ionizing radiation dose and mortality for any cause reported.” [They used] an incompetent way to examine this data. 

[Our analysis] gives 189 lung cancer deaths per year per million persons per rem. This is over 100 times the official estimates and completely changes the picture.

PNS workers received much less than the 5 rem per year currently permitted… about 0.5 rem per year. Yet this was enough to greatly increase their risk of lung cancer.

Why does… data for the [Hanford] workers… show no lung cancer relationship? [When experts] analyzed the Hanford data they did find excess lung cancer and a doubling dose… similar to the corresponding estimate for the shipyard workers.

Estimates of risk to nuclear workers are two logarithmic orders of magnitude greater than the official risks. When the actual risks are 100 times greater, the cost-benefit calculations or permissible levels or environmental impact statements based on the official estimates cannot protect the health and safety of workers or the public.

Indeed, there are now more than 30 studies where the data show positive relationships in human populations exposed to low-level ionizing radiation.

Scientific evaluation of radiation risks [should] replace the obsolete older estimates by the newer ones. That this did not happen in the latest BEIR report suggests that official estimates are no longer a scientific product but rather a political one.

Radiation [studies] become bogged down in real or manufactured “controversies”… There is now much more than a prima facie case that NRC permits doses of radiation that are dangerous – a dose that doubles the risk of a fatal disease is a serious public health hazard.  

"THEY KNEW, BUT DID IT ANYWAY."

Oct 30, 2013

Jay Mullen, former CIA agent and professor at Southern Oregon Univ., Oct 2013.

Testimony of Tom Bailie and Jay Mullen downwinders who say they and many of their friends and family suffered due to lax environmental and safety controls during the manufacture of plutonium for the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.  

When I was 19 years old, I was… a University athlete. I woke up one night and couldn’t move, it paralyzed me… it just baffled doctors… the Univ. of California Medical Center… determined it was the thyroid disorder that was paralyzing me… I had a thyroidectomy and as a consequence I wear what we call the Hanford necklace.

There’s a good reason if you are an investor in the nuclear community to cover up the pernicious effects of radiation, because there’s profits in nuclear operations… There are strong ‘balance sheet’ reasons to continue the nuclear community, and therefore there’s a reason to discount the possible adverse effects of radiation.

I was in the government, but I was in the government clandestinely. I was an undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency in Africa in the 1970s… I understand very well that the government covers up things that might in fact be embarrassing to the government. What could be more embarrassing to the government than the fact that they hazarded their own people by their operations in the atomic community?

I would hope the American public becomes more aware of the effects that radiation can have on the public’s health.

The thing I find most distressing is the dissembling and… the contempt that the government and its contractors have had for the people who they’ve in fact affected.

SOMETIMES IT TAKES DECADES FOR US TO LEARN THE TRUTH, BUT EACH TRUTH WE FIND EMPOWERS US.

WE CAN SEE THAT A FORMER CIA EMPLOYEE KNOWS AND IS NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT ON THE FACTS OF "LOW-LEVEL RADIATION".  

WE CAN ALSO SEE THAT THE YALE JOURNAL'S PUBLISHED STUDY WAS ADAMANT THAT THE U.S. MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT WERE FAR FROM HONEST ABOUT LOW-LEVEL RADIATION.

"First, the congressional mandate specifically involved the dosage-response relationship between badge dose exposures and leukemia and cancer deaths. 

The dosage-by-latency tabulations required had been given only for leukemia and a few related causes of death and not for other cancers or other causes of death. 

Second, no statistical analysis of the dosage-response relationships
had been made.

However this "final report" included only a small part of the Portsmouth
Naval Shipyard data that was relevant to the scientific assessment of radiation
hazards.... The facts in the dosage-by-latency tables that were not in
the 'final report" flatly contradict the statements made by CDC/NIOSH in
the 'final report" and to the press. "

PLEASE, WATCH THIS TO THE END FOR THERE IS VERY PERTINENT INFORMATION AT THE END FOR ALL WHO HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH THE HANFORD SITE AND ALL WHO LIVE NEAR IT NOW. 

AS FOR YOU ON THE WEST COAST, YOU PROBABLY ARE NOT AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS BACK IN 2011...4 YEARS AGO:

FIRST, HERE ARE THE RADIATION READINGS FOUND IN FOODS FROM THE CHERNOBYL AREA OF THE UKRAINE, 2011: 

AND HERE ARE THE READINGS FROM WEST COAST FOODS IN THE SAME TIME FRAME: 
<click here for that interview>
Atascadero, Calif. (~20 miles inland from Diablo Canyon) – 
Miner’s Lettuce (salad green), Mar 27, 2011

Iodine-131 = 347.00 pCi/kg
Cesium-134 = 256.00 pCi/kg
Cesium-136 = 22.60 pCi/kg
Cesium-137 = 260.00 pCi/kg

(Total Radionuclides = 886 pCi/kg or 33 Bq/kg (83% of Ukraine’s Cesium-137 limit of 40 Bq/kg. I-131 and Cs-134/136 decay much faster than Cs-137 and are likely no longer detectable in food, and don’t require a specific safety limit However, they are considered just as harmful as Cs-137, if not more so.)

[I WOULD BET THE FARM WE STILL FIND CESIUM-134, THE 100% POSITIVE MARKER FOR THE FUKUSHIMA RADIATION, IN WEST COAST SOIL, AIR, AND/OR WATER BECAUSE DAIICHI IS STILL LEAKING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, SOIL, AND WATER!]

Diablo Canyon in San Luis Obispo, California (150 mi. N of Los Angeles) — Rain Event, Mar 24, 2011

• Iodine-131 = 522 picocuries per liter (pCi/L)
• Iodine-132 = 19.90 pCi/L
• Cesium-134 = 23.40 pCi/L
• Cesium-137 = 25.40 pCi/L
• Gross Alpha = 5.27 pCi/L (BBC: "Inside the body… Alpha radiation is the most dangerous” — Also detected on Mar. 19 and 21

San Luis Obispo, Calif. — Vegetation from private garden, Apr 14, 2011

Iodine-131 = 67.71 pCi/kilogram (pCi/kg)
Cesium-134 = 171.60 pCi/kg
Cesium-137 = 154.10 pCi/kg

NONE of that was headline news on the major networks, was it?
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN!

WE CAN BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN OF ONE THING REGARDING OUR GOVERNMENT AND ITS 'AGENCIES'... THEY LIE!

THEY HAVE ALWAYS LIED AND ALWAYS WILL.

BUT NOW WE KNOW THE TRUTH!