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Mortality Consequences of the TMI Nuclear Accident (1987)
| Author | Jay M.Gould |
| Date | May 1987 |
| Classification | 3.01.8.11/16 (UNITED STATES - SITES - HARRISBURG (TMI)) |
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U.S. MORTALITY AND TMI -- 5/13/87 CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT -- PAGE 1 U.S. MORTALITY AND THE THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR ACCIDENT By Dr. Jay M. Gould INTRODUCTION Data from the latest annual volumes of the Vital Statistics of the United States indicate that during the years 1979 through 1982 an extraordinary force of mortality affected the state of Pennsylvania as well as many other areas within 500 miles of Three Mile Island. The Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident of March 28, 1979 may have had a severe impact on U.S. mortality. The thousands of unexpected "excess deaths" that took place during these years were far too numerous to be attributed to chance. The temporal association of these deaths with the millions of curies of radioactive emissions from the Three Mile Island accident may indicate that a completely unanticipated lethal impact of low-level radiation was at work. The impact of low-level radiation was one factor admittedly not dealt with in the Kemeny report commissioned by President Carter to investigate the Three Mile Island accident. This paper documents the urgent need for a national inquiry into the potential health impacts of that accident.
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