ML070430146
| ML070430146 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Three Mile Island  |
| Issue date: | 02/06/2007 |
| From: | Sirk K - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Blevins M NRC/FSME/DWMEP/EPPAD/ERB |
| References | |
| 71FR78231 00011 | |
| Download: ML070430146 (3) | |
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From: katie sirk <katiesirkjlt@yahoo.com>
To: <NRCREP@nrc.gov>
Date: 02/06/2007 12:49 PM . ..
Subject:
Attention: Matthew Blevins F--,o In reference to the NRC's report on the issue of putting in an irradiation facility in Honolulu WE SAY NO!
Why?:
- NRC did a bad job assessing environmental impact for this proposal!
- There was no independent research/modeling of impact of catastrophic event (i.e. "no new data were measured or derived as part of this report.")
- It is inappropriate to use an inspection report from a Pennsylvania facility. Hawaii is different and should be viewed as such.
- They should have considered an airplane crash's impact on the facility and the effect of losing control of radioactive material.
- They should have addressed security issues.
- People in Hawai'i do not WANT irradiated food no matter how safe they claim it is.
- Irradiation forms chemicals known or suspected to cause cancer and birth defects. One chemical, 2-ACBs, has been linked to cancer development in rats and genetic damage in human cells.
- Irradiation can mask filthy conditions in today's mega-sized livestock slaughterhouses and food processing plants, where E. coli, Salmonella and other potentially deadly food-borne pathogens thrive in meat contaminated with feces, urine and pus.
- Irradiated foods have failed spectacularly in the marketplace, despite millions of dollars in government subsidies for research and propaganda campaigns.
- Many serious health problems have been observed in lab animals fed irradiated foods, including premature death, cancer, tumors, stillbirths, mutations, organ damage, immune system failure and stunted growth. In one experiment, genetic damage was detected in young children who ate irradiated wheat.
- Because it can extend shelf life and allow food to be shipped long distances around the world, irradiation could further globalize and consolidate the food industry. These destructive forces have already bankrupted thousands of American family farmers and ranchers.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has legalized irradiated foods in defiance of federal regulations requiring comprehensive safety reviews.
- Irradiation destroys vitamins, protein, essential fatty acids and other nutrients - up to 80 percent of vitamin A in eggs and half the beta carotene in orange juice.
- Irradiation can ruin the flavor, odor and texture of food - sometimes disgustingly so. Zapped foods can taste and smell like a wet dog, burnt feathers, signed hair and rancid fat.
- Numerous deaths, injuries, mishaps and acts of misconduct have occurred at irradiation plants throughout the world.
In 1988 the owner of a New Jersey facility was sentenced to federal prison after covering up accidents and safety violations.
- It remains legal to irradiate food with cesium-137, a highly radioactive waste material left over from the production of nuclear weapons. A cesium leak near Atlanta in 1988 - known as the "Three Mile Island of the irradiation industry" -
cost taxpayers $40 million to clean up.
So as you see - you may lie to the people with falsified or exaggerated reports, but WE KNOW THE TRUTH!!!
Thanks for your time, -.
Katie Sirk file://C:\temp\GW }00001.HTM 02/07/2007
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