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Mortality Consequences of the TMI Nuclear Accident (1987)

Auteur	Jay M.Gould
Datum	mei 1987
Classificatie	3.01.8.11/16 (VS - LOCATIES - HARRISBURG)
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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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