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Toothfairy Project
RPHP is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization, established by scientists and physicians dedicated to understanding the relationships between low-level, nuclear radiation and public health.
If you would like to help by supporting our work, click here to make a tax-deductible financial contribution.
If You Live Within 50 Miles of a Nuclear Power Plant, We Recommend This Book.
Dr. Ernest Sternglass' ground-breaking book,"Secret Fallout, Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima To Three-Mile Island" is available on-line and for downloading at rat haus.
Click here to read the book or to download.Tooth Fairy Project
Help us track the effects of radiation in your community by simply donating one of your child's baby teeth. Learn more.
Child Cancer Tooth Project
Help us track the effects of radiation in your community by simply donating one of your child's baby teeth. Learn more.
Long Term Health Effects Study
Could you be an adult who donated a tooth as a child in the 1960s? We have over 85,000 teeth from the original study and would like to follow up with you. Learn more.
Mission
Mission
The Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization, established by scientists and physicians dedicated to understanding the relationships between low-level, nuclear radiation and public health.
RPHP's mission includes:- Research: Studying the links between low-level radiation and world-wide increases in diseases, especially cancer and those affecting the newborn and children and to become the leading, world-wide source of information on radiation and public health issues.
- Education: Publishing the results of research dealing with the impact of low-level radiation on public health and to disseminate this information to the public, media, policy makers and the scientific community.
- Public awareness: Promoting public awareness and responsible public policy related to radiation and public health, in the areas of freedom of information...objective medical and scientific investigation... institutional accountability...independent oversight...and responsible public health and environmental policy.
- Research: Studying the links between low-level radiation and world-wide increases in diseases, especially cancer and those affecting the newborn and children and to become the leading, world-wide source of information on radiation and public health issues.
History and Accomplishments of the Radiation and Public Health Project
RPHP was established as a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization in 1995, after many years of work by its founders--Jay Gould and Ernest Sternglass--as part of other nonprofit environmental and public policy organizations.
Given RPHP's threefold mission in the areas of research, education and public awareness, the history of RPHP can best be traced through its books and articles on radiation and nuclear issues--by Jay Gould, Ernest Sternglass, Joseph Mangano, Bill McDonnell, Janette Sherman and Jerry Brown.During the first half century of the Nuclear Age a growing body of medical and scientific evidence has emerged to demonstrate a probable causal link between low-level internal radiation from the ingestion of man-made fission products and world-wide increases in immune deficiency diseases, especially cancer and those affecting the newborn. RPHP has assembled much of the epidemiological evidence documenting these links.
Five books published by RPHP research associates summarize hundreds of articles in peer-reviewed journals dealing with these impacts of ingested, low-level fission products--products which did not exist in nature prior to the Nuclear Age. In addition to the effects upon the immune response of all age groups, the very young have been especially affected. RPHP has repeatedly pointed out the radiation-induced damage apparent in official vital statistics, tracing changes in infant mortality rates and underweight live births in the postwar period, especially during the aboveground nuclear test years of the 1950s and the 1960s.RPHP has also been able to track the radiation-induced damage done to the hormonal and immune systems of the 80 million baby boomers born between 1945 and 1965 in each of the post war decades, revealing the various epidemiological anomalies: In the 1950s, children born after the enormous initial exposure to nuclear fission products began to experience epidemic increases in childhood cancer in the ages 5 to 9.
In USA Newborn Deterioration in the Nuclear Age: 1945-1965 , RPHP found
...a cumulated excess of about 1 million infant deaths over the 50 year postwar period, attributable to exposure to all post-1945 releases of chemical and radioactive pollutants.
In 1963, when children born in the traumatic initial year of 1945 reached the age of 18, there began a mysterious 20-year decline in Scholastic Aptitude Scores (SAT), which only improved when the tests were taken by those born after the cessation of aboveground superpower nuclear bomb tests, which had exploded the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs between 1945 and 1963.
With the onset of another wave of fallout in the form of accidental and 'normal' releases of low-level radiation from civilian nuclear power reactors, rapidly coming on line in the 1970s, RPHP found a linkage to the emergence of immune deficiency diseases in the 1980s, including AIDS, as well as early breast cancer (for women baby boomers reaching age 35).
Concerning America's cancer epidemic, RPHP has analyzed official National Cancer Institute, age-adjusted, breast and prostate cancer mortality rates, available since 1950 for every county in the United States, and demonstrated highly significant correlations between high cancer death rates and proximity to nuclear reactors.
In The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors, RPHP showed that of the over 3,000 counties in the United States, women living in about 1,300 nuclear counties (located within 10 0 miles of a reactor) are at the greatest risk of dying of breast cancer.
Projects
The Tooth Fairy Project - RPHP has tested 4000 children's teeth for levels of radioactive Strontium-90. We found that average Sr-90 levels rose 50% in the 1990s, are highest near nuclear plants, and appear linked to childhood cancer trends.
Collecting and testing another 350 teeth this year will provide significant results near eight plants in the Northeast, California, and Florida.
The Child Cancer Tooth Study - As an outgrowth of the Tooth Fairy Project, we are conducting a study of Sr-90 in teeth of children with cancer (100 teeth have been donated thus far).
reliminary findings show average Sr-90 levels are considerably higher than those of healthy children. Collecting and testing an additional 200 "cancer teeth" will provide meaningful comparisons in Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
The Long-Term Health Effects (Baby Boomers) Study (St. Louis Study) - Our third major focus is the result of an unexpected gift of 85,000 individually-identified baby teeth from Washington University in St. Louis. These teeth, not used in a landmark 1958-1970 study, give us the unprecedented opportunity to examine health effects of bomb test fallout on Baby Boomers. Identifying and testing teeth of 200 Boomers who have died and/or developed cancer by age 45, and comparing results to 200 healthy Boomers will provide a meaningful test on whether Sr-90 raises risk of death and cancer. Radiation and Public Health Project Reading Room
Entergy's Indian Point
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON NY REACTOR TO BE LAUNCHED
On April 30, Entergy Nuclear submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, asking for a 20-year license extension for the two reactors at the Indian Point nuclear plant just north of New York City. Because of this action, RPHP has decided to begin its second educational campaign on hazards of continued reactor operations, directed at Indian Point.For over a decade, RPHP research has focused on documenting high emission levels from Indian Point, high levels of Strontium-90 in baby teeth, and high local rates of cancer. RPHP has been supported by the Westchester County (NY) legislature and by NY State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, along with a number of citizen organizations. A press conference announcing the campaign will be held in the fall.
Contact Information
Joseph Mangano
Executive Director
716 Simpson Avenue
Ocean City, NJ 08226
609 399-4343
email: odiejoe@aol.com
FUSE USA is pleased to share the work of the Tooth Fairy Project and Joseph J. Mangano, MPH, MBA.
SPOTLIGHTS
Click here to read about our New Jersey campaign | |
Oyster Creek: Safety First Nuclear Reactor an Unclean, Dangerous Source for Energy Vermont Yankee - Clear And Present Danger? New Nukes In Utah Pose Public Health Risks For safety's sake, shut down Oyster Creek The Fate of Oyster Creek: A Chance To Reduce Cancer Report Highlights Nuclear Dangers Study Health Risks Before Proposing New Reactors Nuclear Reactor Restart At Browns Ferry Poses Health Risks Radioactive Contamination and Potential Health Risks From The Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Reactor Feds Ignore Health Risks of Keeping Old Nuke Running New Nuke At Fermi Could Raise Cancer Rates Bullets, bombs and nuclear power plants Global Warming and Nuclear Power Geographic Variance In Pennsylvania Thyroid Cancer Incidence And The Link With Nuclear Power Reactors Why Building A New Reactor In Maryland Is A Really Bad Idea: Maryland PIRG Launches Campaign Against New Nuclear Reactor in Maryland Maryland PIRG issued a new report explaining the environmental, financial, and health effects of adding another reactor to the Calvert Cliffs nuclear complex. Sierra Club spokesperson Cathy Garger spoke of the potential immense adverse impact to the entire Chesapeake Bay environment. RPHP's Joseph Mangano discussed the detrimental health effects that the proposed new reactor would have. The press coverage was excellent, including articles in The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post. The story was also carried in The Baltimore Daily Record and on Fox-45 TV in Baltimore and University of Maryland TV. 12 New Editorials Warn Against New Reactors Each newspaper is located in an area where new reactors have been proposed. The 12 papers have a total daily circulation of well over one million, and include the largest dailies in Idaho, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. A new study by Joseph Mangano was announced in Trenton NJ on March 28, 2006. The article examines the link between in-body radiation and cancer risk The paper shows that near the Brookhaven (NY), Indian Point (NY) and Oyster Creek (NJ) nuclear plants, trends in Strontium-90 in baby teeth and childhood cancer incidence were similar. With several hundred teeth and cancer cases used near each plant, the findings are highly significant. This research suggests a cause-and-effect link between radioactivity from reactors and cancer in local children. Click here for the press release. We are very proud of our new internet article and guide, Making Use of the Internet to Obtain Data on Nuclear Reactor Performance and Health Risk Near Reactors: A Guide for Non Health Professionals by Joseph J. Mangano. With it, you will be able to do your own health risk analysis. Click here to read and begin your own study of health and radiation exposure in your community. Read the moving article The Journey called Life by Agnes Reynolds, Mom to Michelle and Jon, Wife of Gilbert. Cancer Parent. Staff RNC in Women's Health at Hartford Hospital, CT and volunteer tooth collector for the RPHP. RPHP Researchers are featured in the award-winning documentary Fatal Fallout. Read Alec Baldwin's letter giving his support to The Tooth Fairy Project. Read Patch Adam's letter where he "wholeheartedly endorses the work of the Radiation and Public Health Project." Want to know the results of the Tooth Study Where You Live? Look up average SR-90 tooth concentrations by location. See how local infant deaths and childhood cancer decline after nuclear reactors close. Be sure and check out our list of publications by clicking here (or by clicking on "Reading Room" menu item above.) |
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