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Hanford Radioactive Fallout; Iodine release 1944-1956 (1989)

AuteurA.B.Benson
Datum1989
Classificatie 3.01.8.43/12 (VS - LOCATIES - HANFORD)
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Introduction

A long journey began in July of 1986 when the author was selected to serve on 
the Hanford Health Effects Panel to evaluate whether or not health effects 
credibly occurred and whether new systems were necessary to detect potential 
health effects from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation's historic radioactive 
releases.
Iodine-131 (1-131) was recognized as a radioactive component of the historic 
releases which could have caused health effects in the Hanford work force and 
in downwind populations shortly after the classified documents on many of the 
historic Hanford radioactive releases (1944-56) were made public in February 
of 1986.
At the Hanford Health Effects Panel meeting. (1) September 22-26, 1986, each of 
the panel members, scientists from various parts of the country, was asked if 
he/she thought whether a recent public statement by the Manager of the Hanford 
Nuclear Reservation, Mr. Mike Lawrence, was scientifically founded. 
Mr. Lawrence's statement was basically that "There were no observable health 
effects from Hanford's historic radioactive releases."
Because the iodine-131 releases were of such a size that health effects were 
credible, because considerable data on the iodine-131 releases were available, 
because no other independent scientists that the author knew of were pursuing this 
subject, and because of Mr. Lawrence's claim (repeated in the April 12, 1987, CBS 
West 57th Street Newsmagazine program), the author decided to try and rationally 
evaluate whether it is reasonable to conclude that there are observable health 
effects to downwinders from the publicly known historic Hanford Nuclear 
Reservation iodine-131 releases. This book, over two years later, is the result.

References
(1). Hanford Health Effects Panel selected by James Ruttenbur, Ph.D, M.D., Centers
for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, sponsored by Washington State, Oregon State, 
Indian Health Service, Nez Perce Tribe, Yakima Indian Nation, Confederated 
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, meeting September 22-26, 1986, Richland, 
WA. Report available from the Department of Social and Health Services, Office of 
Radiation Protection, Olympia, WA 98504, October, 1987.

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