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Mary Louise Lynch.
Susan Barker...........
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Bernice M. Elder.....
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By Terrence Poppa
FI Paso Herald Post
Editor Publisher
Assistant
CrowFlat Editor
Sierra Blanca Editor
Ft. Hancock Editor
Courthouse News
One important deterrent would be widespread education in the three most
affected republics and in American schools and colleges about the rules and
principles which produce objective, scientifically credible studies. Science
has long been realistic about bias in research, for a simple reason: Scientists
are only human. Even when they are incorruptible, they tend to have strong
personal preferences about how a study "should" turn out.
So over decades and centuries, science has established important barriers
against bias — rules which are widely disregarded today in radiation
research. Adherence to these rules will not be demanded by the public,
press, and other professions unless they are aware of them. Some of the
basic principles will be listed in Part 5; an expanded version is part of
Gofman 1992.
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A comparison of Parts 1 and 2 above shows that the world is hearing
completely contradictory claims about the early radiation consequences from
Chernobyl: "A Holocaust Is Occurring” versus "Nothing Happened." Both
sets of claims cannot be correct.
"HOLOCAUST" versus "NOTHING HAPPENED" :
Tales from a Distant Place
... with a Problem Very Close to All of Us
John W. Gofman, M.D.. PhD., Fall 1991
A second and crucial deterrent to bias in studies of Chernobyl’s radiation
consequences would be authority to police IPHECA with independent
"watchdogs" to make sure that the highest standards of objectivity are
actually achieved. This is a way of ensuring that whistle-blowers not only
exist within the study, but also are rewarded. Our proposal is described in
Part 6. With the “new thinkers" coming to power in the three most affected
republics, this proposal has a growing chance of actual adoption.
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explosion of the reactor that
spewed out volcanolike clouds ;
of radiation killed 29 people.
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Neighborhood
"I've definitely opened a can of
worms," says Marie Tuccitto, an
elementary school teacher in
Southington, Connecticut.
A conversation about the upcoming
cancer surgery of a neighbor's son led
Tuccitto to chat with a local pediatri-
cian, which led to more conversations
with friends. In January of 1990,
Tuccitto began knocking on doors and
talking with neighbors about the
health of their families. In six months,
she found more than 50 cases of
cancer within a 1.5 mile radius of her
home. In June, Tuccitto presented the
results of her independent cancer
study to state health offici ds—and the
media.
Within weeks, her list of 50 victims
grew to over 100, as former
Southington residents contacted her
from as far avzay as New Hampshire
and Ohio. The state Department of
Health began systematic cancer
cluster research in the town, the only
case in Connecticut where investiga-
tions have gone beyond the initial
analysis of raw numbers.
There was clearly reason to take
Tuccitto’s survey seriously. Since 1955,
Solvent Recovery Services (SRS) of
New England had been blending
waste solvents into industrial fuel and
treating and disposing of hazardous
waste. SRS also fell within the 1.5 mile
radius plotted on the teacher’s cancer
cluster map. "In the 1960's, they were
dumping waste into an open, unlined
lagoon. Up until 1975, they were
burning it in an open pit incinerator,"
says Tuccitto. "You'll find file cabi-
nets filled with 30 years' worth of
complaints at the Department of
Environmental Protection offices in
Hartford."
In 1979, a public well yielding more
than 1.4 million gallons of water a day
was closed due to contamination
linked to SRS's disposal practices. In
1983, the facility was placed on EPA's
Superfund list of severely contami-
nated sites. But it was Tuccitto's
survey and the resulting publicity that
moved the community - and state and
federal officials - to action.
Within weeks of announcing the
results of her survey, Tuccito and her
neighbors formed the Southington
Association For the Environment
(SAFE). Within a month, the stale
Justice Department sued SRS for $8.8
million in fines and past cleanup costs.
Within two months, EPA was pressur-
ing the company to honor its former
court agreements or shut down.
By March of 1991, SRS temporarily
closed until it could prove its ability to
comply with environmental regula-
tions. In May, the facility shut their
doors for good.
But SAFE’S work isn’t over yet. The
group recently received a $50,000
technical assistance grant from EPA to
help them monitor and oversee the
cleanup of the SRS site.
How does Tuccitto feel about her
move from a lifestyle centered around
work and family into the limelight of
environmental organizing? "I wouldn’t
change a thing."
For more information, contact:
Marie Tuccitto, 20 Preli Court,
Southington, Connecticut 06489;
(203) 621-5246.
An additional 499 people . , . , ,
who were exposed to massive ■ scattered around thec ‘ miry
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congress at the Airport Hilton.
The event was sponsored by
the Southwest Association of
Hispanic American Physic-
ians.
In an interview before the
talk, Gale said the conse-
quences of the disaster were
tremendous.
The partial meltdown and
Radiation-induced cancer
from a Soviet nuclear-power
plant accident five years ago
may eventually claim the lives
of 20,000 to 100,000 people
worldwide.
Dr. Robert Gale, one of
the few American physicians
who was allowed to treat
Chernobyl victims, said
Thursday that most of the
future victims will be in
Europe and the Soviet Union,
but that no part of the globe
was spared from the fallout.
“Everyone is affected by one
of these disasters,” he said. “A
nue'ear accident anywhere is
an accident everywhere.”
The author of “Final Warn-
ing,” a best seller about the
April 1986 disaster and its
implications for the world,
Gale was the featured speaker
at an international health
Our thanks to the people behind the
projects described here, who have
agreed to share their experiences
and insights with others interested in
environmental progress.
Editing and Design: Kristin Schafer
Contributors: Mark Malispina, Kristin
Schafer, Larry Wood
(The Environmental Exchange
Bulletin - Sept/Oct 1991)
doses of radiation now need
constant medical attention to
prevent their deaths from
cuncer.
Vast traces of the Ukraine
north of Kiev. where the reac-
tor is situated, are now unin-
habitable because of the radio-
active fallou ..
Even today Russian author-
ities are evacuating areas —
some of then 700 miles away
- that were heavily contamin-
ted by radioactive fallout.
‘Everyone knows someone
ho is affected,” Gale said.
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The governments of the world, through WHO, have already organized a
long-term study of Chernobyl called IPHECA: International Program on the
Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident. Japan has already provided $20
million, and other governments are expected to provide $180 million more.
The chief temptation of such nuclear-committed governments will be to
focus their Chernobyl studies on the very low dose-range (below 10 reins of
dose). The temptation will be to find that slowly received radiation in this
dose-range is harmless or beneficial, and to make this the new "textbook
wisdom" about ionizing radiation.
We say that this will be their TEMPTATION — because Chernobyl
studies which they control offer them the opportunity to “discover" that even
catastrophic failures like Chernobyl are tolerable ... and therefore nations
need not hesitate to forge ahead with nuclear power.
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4 • A Strategy to Block Bad Behavior
A danger exists that truth will fare poorly if there are no "watchdogs"
inside IPHECA. This danger arises from the universal human tendency to
yield to temptation and unholy pressures whenever bad behavior is
REWARDED and good behavior in PUNISHED. Indeed, bad behavioi ...
simply predictable when, simultaneously, appropriate deterrents to bad
behavior are absent and real penalties for whistle-blowing are present.
Can we conceive of any feasible deterrents to bad behavior in the IPHEA
Chernobyl victims’
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of hope, warning
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Robert Gale
The physician, win fre
quently travels to Russia to
visit Chernobyl victims and
assist in their treatment
said the accident shows what
is in store for t he world if even
a single nuclear bomb is evet
detonated in war.
Ironically, the political dis
integration of the soviet
Six republics in the frap
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Union now poses a ereatr
1 nuclear threat to the world
than just five years ago when
! Communists were fit: dy in
■ control.
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Who will control what information becomes the new ‘textbook w isu.m
about Chernobyl’s radiation consequences? Obviously it makes a huge
difference.
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terrorist attacks against nu-
clear reactors by dis I fect 0
groups within the Fovici
Union is growing, he ciid.
As an example, he pciutee io
threats just last Wek by
Chechen radicals in an auton
omous Muslim region within
the Russian Republic who
threatened to blyw up a rene
tor outside Moscow if the
recrion was not granted full
ind., ence.
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