Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more reassuring on the question of the danger to human health. NRC data showed that the largest dose of radiation anyone in the immediate area received was 80 millirems; by comparison, an average American absorbs 200 millirems each year. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano testified that he expected no additional cancer deaths among the population within 50 miles of the plant. He also announced that the Food and Drug Administration was testing food, milk and river and drinking water in the vicinity of the site. No hazardous increase in radioactivity had shown up. For years to come, however, HEW will monitor...
...never considered the possibility that a hydrogen bubble would hinder attempts to shut down a balking reactor can no longer contend that the chances of serious accident are so tiny as to be totally discounted. The radiation released was well below the Government's standards for safety, but cancer rates among people exposed to fallout from the atomic-bomb tests of the 1950s and shipyard workers who repair atom-powered vessels raise troubling questions about the long-run effects of supposedly "safe" radiation...
Health officials feared that the pastures where Hershey cows graze might be contaminated by radioactivity from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Cows' milk could absorb cancer-causing radioactive material from the grass which the cows eat, the officials added...
...said the cancer present in patients with the risk factors is not life-threatening. "The cancers observed are relatively minor, local tumors that can be excised in the office of the patient's doctor," he said. "The lesions cause no pain," he added...
...American moving to Australia and becoming a fisherman is as likely to develop cancer as a psoriasis patient without risk factors receiving photochemotherapy," Parrish added...