Unenforced Radionuclides Rule

Gamma Overdoses @ BNL Concealed For Decades
Dr. Caldicott explains how large doses of Gamma/X-Ray/Alpha/Beta radiation can cause cancer, yet failed to mention the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) which has paid out over $8 Billion for covered illnesses – including 22 types of cancers known to be cause by overdoses of ionizing radiation. This is understandable, because BNL managers never notified its workers in 2001 as mandated by President Clinton’s Executive Order 13179. Former EPA Administrator Whitman failed to mention countless BNL workers received Gamma-overdoses from onsite wells for decades before public water was brought in. We were never warned that we may have received Gamma/Beta/X-Ray overdoses in excess of the 4 mrem/yr limit the EPA finally got around to setting in the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1976 (SDWA) – but never enforced. Nor did NRC spokesmen speak about mortality rates from overdoses of gross-gamma radiation from the 168 radionuclides regulated by the SDWA. In 2000 the EPA introduced its Radionuclides Rule, which added uranium not radon; the second leading cause of lung cancer. Yet the Radionuclides Rule was not mentioned at all by EPA, NRC, BNL or power plant managers. Why; shouldn't they have read “Health-Protective Considerations Regarding Measurement of Gross Beta Particle and Photon Activity in Drinking Water Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Sacramento and Oakland, California” @ http://oehha.ca.gov/water/reports/grossbetahealth.pdf --; especially since it shows Tritium (H-3)does cause cancer; contrary to Neil Sheehan’s misleading statements about the Godly Park Plume; given Tritium's Morbitity Rate is about 17,445 time Lead-210's, which is found in enormoue quantities in public water wells that now feed Shirley -- and my house.