Science versus Fiction Have New Mexico Environmentalists Been Telling the Truth
While it can be a speculative musing whether or not Chris Shuey influences the editorial voices with the Gallup, and other New Mexico, media, it can do appear Mr. Shuey often have built the inspiration for his career using a uranium-related disaster. Conversely, can someone blame an ambulance chaser for working to make a living, too? For loss of a Three-Mile-Island chapter in laid-back Gallup, New Mexico, Chris Shuey helped establish Southwest Research and Information Center to a vocal “expert” counterpoint contrary to the uranium industry by apparently piggy-backing the 1979 uranium mill tailings spill near Church Rock. Rrt had been considered among the list of worst tailings spills ever to possess occurred in North America. We sought after conclusive proof deaths made by this spill, but came up dry. Any official published report countering the preceding statement can be welcome.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) failed to put much stock from your media’s sensationalism. The following was excerpted from other official report on the uranium tailings spill:
“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in cooperation while using the Church Rock community, found no documented human consumption of river water. Six Navajo individuals almost certainly exposed to spill contaminants were selected by way of the CDC and tested at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where they were found to acquire amounts of radioactive material normally found in the human body.” Recommendation: No further action required.
“No public, private or municipal wells producing water for domestic use or livestock watering were troubled by the spill. Wells drawing water solely from sandstone or limestone aquifers will most likely never be troubled by spill contaminants.”
o “Based on limited testing conducted because of the CDC, the additional radiation risk from usage of local livestock is small. Raise the risk is about like the increased risk from cosmic radiation suffered by moving from sea level to 5000 feet in elevation.”
o “Computer modeling identified inhalation when the most significant pathway of radiation experience of man within the spill. However, sampling of airborne dust around the Puerco River in Gallup immediately after the spill showed only background levels of radioactivity. Moreover, one year following the spill, radioactivity levels in Puerco River sediments were reduced significantly as a consequence of dilution with uncontaminated river sediments.”
The trouble with first reaching a conclusion after which researching the facts to confirm your preconceived notion negates the scientific process. As an example, Shuey dances around the issue of cadmium throughout his report, but fails to correlate household trash burning together with the dangers of dioxins and cadmium in regards to kidney-related problems and possible cancers. It appears Shuey may have didn’t include the largest single cause of toxic air emissions, which took place New Mexico before June 1, 2004, being a potential source of renal toxicity: trash burning. Right now, New Mexico remains one of the few states, containing failed to ban the burning of electronic equipment. Such trash burning reportedly releases high concentrations of cadmium in to the air. Is it that something as obvious as cadmium concentrations could possibly be the risk factor leading to kidney cancer instead of the purported uranium?
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