20 Radioactive Dangers We All Face

1. Nuclear reactors crashing on Earth from space 
and fallout from:
2. Pacific nuclear testing
3. the Nevada Test Site
4. High-altitude nuclear tests 
5. Project Rulison
6. Mighty Oak nuclear test
7. North Korea's nuclear tests
8. Global nuclear testing
9.  'Project 57' (Area 13) 
10. Trinity, WSMR & Steel

11. Hanford & INL & LANL
12. Nuclear Power
13. DTRA's Divine Strake's babies 
14. Fallout resuspension: Milford Flat Fire 
15. Australia's fallout and duststorms
16. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
-and-
17. Low-level radiation impacted viruses
18. Radioactivity in drywall (dust) 
19. Nuclear waste transport
20. Greenham Common

       

 

Feds confirm more INEEL records destroyed
Lewiston Morning Tribune (ID)
August 4, 2000
Author: Associated Press

IDAHO FALLS -- More than 100 more boxes of Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory records that would have been potentially useful in health analyses were destroyed over the past three decades, the Energy Department confirmed.

The latest discovery, made during a self-initiated records review last month, has prompted expansion of the 1990 moratorium on destruction of epidemiological records to cover all information potentially relevant to health research.

"The additional records discovered were contained in 112 boxes destroyed between 1969 and 1998," Energy Department spokesman Alan Jines said in a statement. "These were primarily financial and procurement data, which the INEEL expects to be of little relevance to the study."

Thirteen months ago, the Energy Department acknowledged the destruction of more than 700 boxes of material documenting health studies despite the fact that they had been flagged by researchers investigating how radiation and chemical releases might have affected people living downwind from INEEL.

Those records along with the ones involved in this week's announcement were destroyed at the Federal Records Center in Seattle, where material is stored and typically destroyed at the end of its prescribed retention period.

Although the moratorium on destruction of epidemiological records was imposed a decade ago, officials said the 112 boxes most recently found to have been destroyed contained support and background information that while potentially helpful in conducting the health study is not considered epidemiological.

Those boxes were also destroyed before the decision to extend the moratorium to other than epidemiological material.

INEEL officials said that expanded moratorium will remain in effect until the Epidemiological Dose Reconstruction Study is complete.

Scientists involved in the study have suggested that none of the destroyed appeared to be crucial to the health study.

 

Idealist's public document archives: 1. Documents 2. Documents

U.S. NUCLEAR tests: 128 A + 899 U in NV,
1 A in NM, 10 U (in NM, CO, AK, MS, central NV),
100+ A, U in Pacific, 3 A in S. Atlantic
(A=aboveground; U=Underground)


'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that 
 the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.' 
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

In 1986, the U.S. Dept. of Energy used the cover of the Chernobyl fallout cloud over the United States to release huge amounts of radiation into the air from a failed underground Nevada nuclear test. It was called Mighty Oak.

Did global fallout cause massive mutations that may explain disorders like autism?

learn more on our global fallout page

 

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