Quote Originally Posted by Trafalgar View Post
If you are from Tennessee, you should be familiar with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I seem to recall reading that it was in the center of a pretty significant cancer cluster and has had a series of nasty releases over the years.
Quote Originally Posted by Squire Doodad View Post
Oak Ridge National Laboratory was a nuclear development site founded in the 1940s. A lot of safety standards didn't develop until the 70s or so.
This is very, very different from talking about opening a modern nuclear plant.
It's also false. The author cherry picked two 2 year periods out of 50 years to make his case. It was refuted less than a year later,
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7622322/, and a 9 year health and human services assessment, https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hac/pha/Oa...tsheet_508.pdf, of the surrounding 8 counties showed no increase in expected cancers. Most showed lower than usual rates for specific kinds.