[NukeNet] Colonie NY Forum on NL Industries DU Contamination

[Dolph Honicker]

Dear Wild Clearing:
 
Wonderful.  Thanks for sending this.  I am forwarding it on to other people that I know in the area, and hope everyone who gets this will do the same and make every effort to be at your meeting Wednesday night. 
  I would suggest that other areas that are struggling with radioactive waste, nuclear plants, weapons production facilities, anything nuclear, send representatives to your meeting. Everyone can learn from your experience.  
 
 I know that Albany has an airport, so I'm sure interested people who want to come can email you for directions, or run a map quest search from the airport to the address listed below for Sand Creek Middle School.  Please send me any information that you have available afterwards, and I will gladly forward it on to my network.  Many times interested citizens want to go to events such as this, but need help with housing.  Do any of your members have room for overnight guests?  
 
Jeannine Honicker 
nuclear opponent since 1974. 
 
  



To: nukenet at energyjustice.netFrom: wildclearing at wildclearing.comDate: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:48:35 -0500Subject: [NukeNet] Colonie NY Forum on NL Industries DU Contamination
NL INDUSTRIES SCIENTIFIC STUDY FORUM - DEPLETED URANIUM STILL CONTAMINATES THOSE IN UPSTATE NEW YORK

Community Concerned About NL Industries
Capital Region Action Against Breast Cancer!
Invite you to attend a Public Forum on
NL Industries Depleted Uranium Contamination:
New Scientific Study Released
Wednesday, December 5 6:30 PM Sand Creek Middle School 329 Sand Creek Rd., Albany, NY 12205

Speakers
* Randall Parrish, Professor, Dept. of Geology, University of Leicester and NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, England.
* David Carpenter, M.D., Institute for Health & the Environment,  University at Albany.
* John Arnason, Assistant Professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany.
*  People who lived or worked near NL and tested positively for depleted uranium.
   Speakers will describe new environmental and health test results relating to the NL Industries depleted uranium site at 1130 Central Avenue, Colonie.

* A report finds depleted uranium (DU) can be detected in people more than 20 years after exposure when using high sensitivity urine tests. Radioactive DU has also been found in the dust of two homes and a workplace after the NL site federal cleanup.

* The isotope measurement testing project, which has never before  been conducted on any U.S. community, is a joint initiative of U.S. and British scientists, led by Professor Randall Parrish. The results are being published in an international journal, Science of the Total Environment, in the near future (electronically available on-line), and will be released at a December 5th morning press conference in Albany.

* The NL Industries factory emitted at least 5 tons of DU aerosols from 1958 to 1982. DU is a toxic chemical due to its heavy metal and  radiological properties. NL used DU to manufacture armor-piercing  munitions.

For more information, contact Anne Rabe, CCNL at annerabe[at]msn. com.

Wes Rehberg
Wild Clearing
www.wildclearing.com
www.nonviolentways.org


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