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Study into cancer risks in New Mexico

Trinity site cancer study expected to finish in 2019, Santa Fe New Mexican, By Russell Contreras | Associated Press, 6 Aug 18

      ALBUQUERQUE — A long-anticipated study into the cancer risks of New Mexico residents living near the site of the world’s first atomic bomb test likely will be published in 2019, the National Cancer Institute announced.

Institute spokesman Michael Levin told the Associated Press that researchers are examining data on diet and radiation exposure on residents who lived near the World War II-era Trinity test site, and scientists expect to finish the study by early next year.

The study will then be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal and could be available by next spring, Levin said.

The announcement comes as descendants of families who lived in nearby communities are pressuring Congress to include them in the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Descendants say the Trinity Test caused generations of families to suffer from rare cancer and economic hardship.
Currently, the law only covers areas in Nevada, Arizona and Utah that are downwind from a different test site.

Scientists working in Los Alamos developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, which provided enriched uranium for the weapon. The secret program also involved facilities in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash. The bomb was tested in a stretch of desert near towns with Hispanic and Native American populations.

Residents did not learn that the test had involved an atomic weapon until the U.S. dropped bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the war ended………http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/trinty-site-cancer-studyexpected-to-finish-in/article_5b297eb3-e177-5d06-b435-42f2c273718a.html

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August 8, 2018 - Posted by | health, USA

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