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Radioactive strontium in Long Island baby teeth (1996)

AuteurJay M.Gould, RPHP
Datum1996*
Classificatie 3.01.8.10/14 (VS - LOCATIES - NOORD-OOST ALGEMEEN)
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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.

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