U.S. Panel: Open Door to Radiation Claims

[NVMojo]

Thursday, April 28, 2005; 10:38 PM (less than 12 hrs old at the time I posted here.)

SALT LAKE CITY -- A panel of experts is recommending the government open the door to hearing cancer claims from people in all states who think they were affected by nuclear fallout from 1950s weapons tests in Nevada.

However, those cancer victims would have to prove it was the nuclear fallout that caused their illness, and making that case would be very difficult.

The recommendation was released Thursday by a panel under the National Research Council, the chief operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences. The panel's finding is a nod to scientific data that wasn't available in 1990 when the government initially apologized to cancer victims with a law that set up a compensation fund.

more..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042801271_pf.html




United States Marines watch an atomic test blast at the Nevada Proving Ground northeast of Las Vegas, May 1, 1952. A federal panel of experts is recommending the government open the door to hearing cancer claims from people in all states who think they were affected by nuclear fallout from 1950s weapons tests in Nevada. However, those cancer victims would have to prove it was the nuclear fallout that caused their illness, and making that case would be very unlikely. The recommendation released Thursday, April 28, 2005, by a panel under the National Research Council is a nod to scientific data that wasn't available in 1990 when the government initially apologized to cancer victims with a law that set up a compensation fund.

[Hekate]

1. An epidemic of breast cancer downwind ...

I read about it years ago -- this woman and her extended family of female relatives started referring to themselves as a "tribe of Amazon women" because so many of them were one-breasted; then she got on to the research about the atomic tests.

Nevada and Utah were chosen because of low population density, rural character, and religion. Low population seems logical when you realize that the government *knew* there were risks and wanted to minimize casualties. Rural character and religion seem more obscure at first glance, but the reason for that was the greater patriotism in small towns and in Mormon communities.

Ouch, ouch, and ouch. They *trusted* their government not to hurt them or their children.

And now such women have to *prove* they were harmed by the radiation from testing The Bomb?!

Hekate
gag me

[NVMojo]

2. the more things change, the more things stay the same ....