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Radioactive Strontium-90 in Baby Teeth near the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant (2002)

AuteurJ.J.Mangano, RPHP
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Datumoktober 2002
Classificatie 3.01.8.10/15 (VS - LOCATIES - NOORD-OOST ALGEMEEN)
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Uit de publicatie:

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

On December 15, 2000, the Westchester County legislature voted to appropriate 
$25,000 to the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) research group to
collect and test babyteeth for levels of radioactive Strontium-90 (Sr-90). The 
vote was motivated by long-standing public concerns about the risk to the local 
population of the Indian Point nuclearpower plant in Buchanan NY. Just months 
earlier, on February 15, 2000 an accidentoccurred at the Indian Point 2 reactor, 
closing it for repairs for nearly a year.

Health and safety concerns about Indian Point are reflected in the following data:

- Since the mid-1970s, Indian Point units 2 and 3 have operated just over 60%
and 50% of the time, well below the U.S. average of 75%. Closings were due 
to mechanicalproblems.
- Indian Point has emitted the 5th highest (of 72 U.S. plants) amount of
airborne radioactivity since 1970.
- Local radioactivity levels in water and milk are far higher than they are in
Albany, which is not near any commercial nuclear reactor.
- Current rates of childhood cancer cases and deaths in Westchester exceeded
U.S. rates by 26% and 21% over the past 12 years.

The county legislature directed RPHP to analyze tooth results, and assess any 
health riskto Westchester residents posed by in-body radioactivity. The group has 
collected 143 additional teeth from persons born in Westchester thus far, along 
with 50 and 33 otherteeth from nearby Rockland and Putnam Counties.

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