The Radiation and Public Health Project cited calculations by Joseph Mangano—who has authored 19 medical journal articles and a book on Low Level Radiation and Immune Disease—that reported a spike in infant mortality in the downwind communities two years after the accident.4971 Anecdotal evidence also records effects on the region’s wildlife.49 For example, according to one anti-nuclear activist, Harvey Wasserman, the fallout caused “a plague of death and disease among the area’s wild animals and farm livestock”, including a sharp fall in the reproductive rate of the region’s horses and cows, reflected in statistics from Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture, though the Department denies a link with TMI.72[edit]Activism and legal action
Anti-nuclear protest at Harrisburg in 1979, following the Three Mile Island Accident.The TMI accident enhanced the credibility of anti-nuclear groups, who had predicted an accident,73 and triggered protests around the world.74In 1981, citizens’ groups succeeded in a class action suit against TMI, winning $25 million in an out-of-court settlement. Part of this money was used to found the TMI Public Health Fund.78 In 1983, a federal grand jury indicted Metropolitan Edison on criminal charges for the falsification of safety test results prior to the accident.79 Under a plea-bargaining agreement, Met Ed pleaded guilty to one count of falsifying records and no contest to six other charges, four of which were dropped, and agreed to pay a $45,000 fine and set up a $1 million account to help with emergency planning in the area surrounding the plant.80According to Eric Epstein, chair of Three Mile Island Alert, the TMI plant operator and its insurers paid at least $82 million in publicly documented compensation to residents for “loss of business revenue, evacuation expenses and health claims”.81 Also according to Harvey Wasserman, hundreds of out-of-court settlements have been reached with alleged victims of the fallout, with a total of $15m paid out to parents of children born with birth defects.82 However, a class action lawsuit alleging that the accident caused detrimental health effects was rejected by Harrisburg U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo. The appeal of the decision in front of U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals also failed.83
Aussie Down Under over 12 years ago
Dual occupancy.
Yer Huckleberry over 12 years ago
3 Mile Island
The Radiation and Public Health Project cited calculations by Joseph Mangano—who has authored 19 medical journal articles and a book on Low Level Radiation and Immune Disease—that reported a spike in infant mortality in the downwind communities two years after the accident.4971 Anecdotal evidence also records effects on the region’s wildlife.49 For example, according to one anti-nuclear activist, Harvey Wasserman, the fallout caused “a plague of death and disease among the area’s wild animals and farm livestock”, including a sharp fall in the reproductive rate of the region’s horses and cows, reflected in statistics from Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture, though the Department denies a link with TMI.72[edit]Activism and legal action
Anti-nuclear protest at Harrisburg in 1979, following the Three Mile Island Accident.The TMI accident enhanced the credibility of anti-nuclear groups, who had predicted an accident,73 and triggered protests around the world.74In 1981, citizens’ groups succeeded in a class action suit against TMI, winning $25 million in an out-of-court settlement. Part of this money was used to found the TMI Public Health Fund.78 In 1983, a federal grand jury indicted Metropolitan Edison on criminal charges for the falsification of safety test results prior to the accident.79 Under a plea-bargaining agreement, Met Ed pleaded guilty to one count of falsifying records and no contest to six other charges, four of which were dropped, and agreed to pay a $45,000 fine and set up a $1 million account to help with emergency planning in the area surrounding the plant.80According to Eric Epstein, chair of Three Mile Island Alert, the TMI plant operator and its insurers paid at least $82 million in publicly documented compensation to residents for “loss of business revenue, evacuation expenses and health claims”.81 Also according to Harvey Wasserman, hundreds of out-of-court settlements have been reached with alleged victims of the fallout, with a total of $15m paid out to parents of children born with birth defects.82 However, a class action lawsuit alleging that the accident caused detrimental health effects was rejected by Harrisburg U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo. The appeal of the decision in front of U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals also failed.83
rh Premium Member over 12 years ago
and we can’t even find a way or a place to store the ****ing waste!