ML19210D816
| ML19210D816 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/10/1979 |
| From: | Didas J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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y303 Flower Avenue Silver Spring, Maryland 20901 April 10, 1979 Mr. Joseph Hendrie Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20006 De ar Mr. Hendrie:
Those kids have preblems -- the two young girls who were pictured walking down a M i d d l.e t o w n, Pennsylvania, street wearing T-shirts emblazone d wi th the saying:
"I survived Three Mile Island".
They didn't!
I know, I
" survived the 1918 fallout."
Gentlemen, you goofed!
And that's the only word for it.
In all of your research you have not p i ck e d up the obvious, something that I h ave been able to pick up over th e years just by being a person who asks questions and has natural observation powers.
The pregnant women and little children WILL NOT be affected.
The young teenagers probably WILL be affected.
In 191S Western New York State had an extremely high fallout ratio as a result of the ':2 v a d a tests.
Of course, you have to realize that that fallout also went across Michigan, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania.
At that time I was 12 years old - j us t entering puberty.
My sister was pragnant.
I gave birth to IHREE deformed children (hare lip and cleft palate).
My sister continued to have children and ended up with NINE, none deformed.
My backyard neighbor friend gave birth to her first child -- open spine; the young nan that I dated at one time married a young girl from the area -- out of five children I believe four were deformed in various ways; ano the r of mv girlfriends had a firstborn child with a hare lip and cleft palate (FOUR hare lip and cleft palate children born within a three car span in Clean, '; e w Yo rk !).
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We were even told by the Administrative Manager of the Lancaster (?ennsyl-vania) Cleft Palate Clinic that a doctor in the area was doing research on the increase in deformed children in Pennsylvania.
Many women I have met over the years in Washington, D.C.
area who were raised in Michigan, Illinois, and Western Pennsylvania had had a firstborn that was deformed, either with water on the brain or an open spine, and died.
Gentle =en, it's about time someone started doing some solid research in this area and finding out facts for our future.
A s imp le request in and/or th rough the news media would elicit thousands of replies from people such as myself who have had children born with defects for no Known reason.
It would not cost the Government millions of iallars to research this p ro j e ct because the parents and doctors would be concerned enough to cone forth and supply the infornation requested through a simple newspaper article or a television news announcement.
Of course, maybe that's too si.ple and inexpensive for our Government when dealing with our -':alth and safety caday and temorrow.
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