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Radioactive strontium in Long Island baby teeth (1996)
| Author | Jay M.Gould, RPHP |
| Date | 1996* |
| Classification | 3.01.8.10/14 (UNITED STATES - SITES - NORTH EAST OTHER) |
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RADIOACTIVE STRONTIUM IN LONG ISLAND BABY TEETH By Jay M. Gould Director, The Radiation and Public Health Project Despite the fact that Suffolk County has twice the income level of Brooklyn, its cancer mortality rates are significantly higher, perhaps because its drinking water has higher radioactivity levels. This is a reversal of the situation that existed thirty years ago, before New York City shifted its major source of its drinking water to the Catskill water shed area, far from possible radioactive contamination of the Croton system close to the Indian Point reactors in Westchester county. A comparison of the strontium-90 content in baby teeth near the reactors operating in the New York suburban counties, including Connecticut and Suffolk, may help explain this epidemiological anomaly, first revealed in the RPHP publication The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors. Such evidence, if available, would supplement the epidemiological evidence we have assembled of the harmful health effects of emissions from the nuclear reactors that ring New York City, which subject the greater New York metropolitan area to the nation's highest levels of airborne radioactive emissions.*) Estimated date
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