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Hanford nuclear site area has dramatically high rate of babies born without brains

New data shows babies missing brains at 2,500% national rate in county by nuclear site — Mother: Officials “shut me down the minute I mentioned Hanford!… WE NEED ANSWERS!” — Experts: No birth defect is more extreme; It’s the most significant impact of radiation on developing embryos (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/79334?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29

anencephaly

“Nothing [is] more extreme than anencephaly” –Dr Michael Grodin, Boston U. School of Medicine

‘Fatal Birth Defects Surge’ – Dr. Kathy Lofy, Washington Dept.of Health (emphasis added): Anencephaly is a rare birth defect in which the brain and the skull of the baby do not fully form [and is] not compatible with life… The most well known risk factor… is a deficiency in folic acid… that’s one of the possibilities we’re looking into [note that mothers in the birth defect cluster had much higher rates of folic acid consumption than the control group chosen by officials]…Hanford nuclear facility has been one concern of the community. We worked really closely with our radiation experts… who work closely with… Hanford. There have been no recent releases [note how she rephrases this] — no recent CHANGE in radiation releases. We can’t really determine any pathway by which radiation could affect all the women in the 3-county area [note all 3 counties surround Hanford]… We’re working with the doctors to make sure we’re identifying all the cases… It’s very important to figure out the rates.

Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki, MD, (Chair of Medical Genetics at U. of S. Alabama), Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Crisis Without End, Oct 2014: “The most significant negative impact of radiation on a developing embryo includes anencephaly… Two US studies… sponsored by the[CDC and published in 1988] sought to determine the… impact of ionizing radiation nearHanford… One study detected higher neural tube defect rates [e.g. Anencephaly, Spina Bifida] in two counties near the nuclear complex and the other demonstrated higher rates of neural tube defects in parents exposed… to low levels of radiation.”

Physicians for Social Responsibility: Hanford documents [reveal] incredible contamination of the environment and exposure of large numbers of citizens to dangerous amounts…Eight plutonium production reactors dumped a daily average of 50,000 curies of radioactive material into the Columbia... [In 1949] 8,000 curies of iodine-131 were [secretly] released [over] an area o 200 by 40 miles, no warnings were given…  [`400 times TMI’s release of] 15 -24 curies — PSR: Contamination has not and will not stay inside Hanford’s boundaries… Over 300 miles of the Columbia… are threatened… [Fires in] 2000… burned three radioactive waste sites [and] plutonium was detected in nearby communities. — PSR: Hanford is the most contaminated site in the Western Hemisphere… At least 200-square miles of groundwater… is contaminated and migrating to the Columbia.

Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on Nuclear Hotseat, Nov. 12, 2014 (at 34:00 in): Birth defect issues occur in the 2nd [generation after radiation exposure]  — especially the 3rd and 4th.

Washington Anencephaly Investigation, Oct 2014:

CDC 2010 statistics, released 2013: Anencephaly 313 cases; RATE: 0.73 per 10,000 births.

Instead of using the 0.73 rate, officials claim the national rate is 2.1, nearly 3 times  higher. The rate of 2.1 is from a study using data from 2004-2006 that estimates the anencephaly rate, andonly uses data from less than 15 states — unlike the CDC report above which is based on the most current data, uses data from all 50 states, and is not an ‘estimate’.

Nikki Shelton, mother of baby w/ neural tube defect (e.g. Anencephaly, Spina Bifida) 13 mi. from Hanford, Nov 6, 2014: This is not something that is going away… the numbers are increasing. The last teleconference I was in shut me down the minute I mentioned Hanford! … let’s not let the department of health just sweep this under the rug…WE NEED ANSWERS!

Interview with Gundersen here | KUOW broadcast here

December 3, 2014 - Posted by | children, health, Reference, USA

2 Comments »

  1. I have had two babies in this time and they had spinal bifia and lost them very sad

    Tanya's avatar Comment by Tanya | February 22, 2015 | Reply

  2. It has never been easy for me to face what happened to my family and me, but now I finally can for whatever reason. It is now the 67th anniversary of the Green Run. To further deal with the psychological and political feelings I have about it I am planning on devoting some time making paintings based on this subject. Yes things happened to us which I believe were due to the Green Run and other radiation releases. My eldest sister’s first born, for instance, was born dead back in the 1980’s. He was reported to look like a monster, so the attending physician did nothing to stop the baby from dying. My siblings and I had been young children living in Walla Walla at the time of the Green Run. Another sister of mine got a sunburn from playing outside in early December 1949, and later developed skin cancer. Fortunately she has had successful operations to remove it. All of us have connective tissue problems as well as a host of food sensitivities and a tendency to develop cataracts and osteoporosis. I seem to have Ehrlos Danlos Syndrome and am helped by taking diatomaceous earth and bentonite regularly as well as detox herbs like dandelion root. The diatomaceous earth helps build up my otherwise appallingly low silica levels and thus helps support my body to enhance making its own collagen. This seems to be helping me in a variety of ways, including strengthening my otherwise degraded myelin sheath on my nerves. In my early twenties I developed severe problems with inflammation in my kidneys, after which I learned to heal myself with diet and herbs rather than take antibiotics forever, which usually gave me a rash and ringing ears. I was an infant at the time of the Green Run. I became extremely ill all of a sudden in early December 1949 after being very healthy. I was taken to the hospital given I was so sick. According to my mother I was put in isolation for over a month. They ended up giving me gamma globulin for “failing to thrive” and had me avoid gluten up to my fifth birthday, which helped. (I now avoid gluten entirely.) The attending doctor was “retired” from the Mayo Clinic. He had us all avoid drinking milk that had butter fat and suggested I go off the gluten. My family was then exposed to radiation and plutonium 2 years later when we were camped along the Columbia River for the Proctor Site archaeological excavation. They were in a hurry to excavate the area that summer before the site was going to be submerged by McNeary dam. We all drank boiled river water. Years later I met one of my father’s co-workers, Robert Butler, a former anthropology and art professor in I think Idaho, who had huge lumps on his arms. One of my younger brothers was born with Down’s Syndrome. He too has severe celiac like symptoms with many other food sensitivities, and is very double jointed. He also has a defective heart. To reiterate, I am much better being off gluten and lactose and butter, eating a low histamine diet, eating a lot of organic plant food, avoiding fish and most meat, and taking detox herbs regularly. I wonder how many survivors of The Green Run would be helped by this regime plus taking bentonite? It certainly helps me. Bentonite is what was used to cap Chernobyl. This is my experience and two cents…

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