[NukeNet] 3 MILE ISLAND COVER-UP: DR. ROSALIE BERTELL'S SIGNED, NOTARIZED STATEMENT [10th Anniversary Of]

[Bill Smirnow]

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3 MILE ISLAND COVER-UP:
DR. ROSALIE BERTELL'S SIGNED, NOTARIZED STATEMENT


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Dr. Rosalie Bertell is the President of the International Institute of
Concern for Public Health, and a renowned epidemiologist by profession. She
is also an expert on the health effects of low level radiation. Dr. Bertell
received the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Peace Prize) in 1986.
She can be reached at: drrbertell at home.com  Phone: 416-260-0575   Below is
Dr. Bertell's signed, notarized statement of July 10, 1998 concerning the
ongoing cover-up of the Three Mile Island Accident.
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"I feel that former President Jimmy Carter should come forth with all of the
facts surrounding the Three Mile Island Accident, especially those which
involved the radiation release and the dose to the public.

This disclosure should, moreover, be in language which can be easily and
correctly  understood by the public, and not massaged to hide the truth.
After the accident, for example, I found that the dose officially assigned
to the public, was called: "measured dose to the public from the accident" -
where "measured" meant it only included the dose after the rate matres were
in place the third day after the accident began; "accident" meant that the
radiation dose received during the same time period in 1978 when the TMI
reactors were all operating and there was Chinese nuclear test fallout,
could be subtracted.

President Carter was, and continues to be by his silence, complicit in
keeping the true facts of the Three Mile Island Accident from the American
and world public. While it may have been legally although not morally,
permissible to withhold this information in 1979 under the guise of national
security needs, now that the Cold War is over it is no longer credible that
the US government protect the nuclear industry at the cost of the lives and
health of its citizens.

As I, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, President of the International Institute of
Concern for Public Health, stated in my e-mail to President Carter of
February 10,1998, President carter was and is involved in the cover up of
the Three Mile island Accident, and in particular the serious health damage
to the people who lived nearby. I was on the Citizen's Advisory Council to
the Blue Ribbon Panel set up by President Carter to investigate the TMI
accident. The members of this public panel did not have FBI clearance, with
the possible exception of Dr. Kemmeny who had worked on the Manhattan
Project. The staff, selected from those who worked for the NRC or DOE, did
have such security clearance, and therefore they were able to withhold any
information they or their superiors wanted to declare "classified:, from the
Panel. The nuclear weapons program demanded that workers and the military
personnel handle this radioactive material and the nuclear ordinance,
therefore health effects of radiation could be classified for national
security to prevent rebellion.

At the first meeting of the Citizen's Advisory Council to the Kemmeny
Commission, I brought up this potential problem and asked what provisions
had been made for the Commission members to have security clearance so that
they might have full access to the truth about the accident. Another
Advisory Council Member asked who was in charge of reactor operations during
the accident. These two questions were never answered, and they were enough
to cause the dissolution of the entire advisory panel. In fact, Dr. Kemmeny
even stated publicly to the press that we had never been invited to
Washington [although the Commission paid our air fare and hotel bills]. The
Industry Advisory Council to the Kemmeny Commission continued to function
during the investigation.

The nuclear industry has frustrated the litigation of all of the serious
health claims of the TMI exposed people, in spite of the Supreme Court's
ruling in 1997 that these claims must be heard. Lawyers for the nuclear
industry are gloating that they are "invincible" before the Courts. Using
dirty tactics, they have managed to eliminate all of the expert witnesses
which the victims had engaged to bring their cause before the Court,
subsequently causing the cases to be dismissed for lack of witnesses. There
may be as many as 2,000 people who have not had their grievances heard by
the courts. This dismissal, after the Supreme Court Ruling, as accomplished
through a judge's ruling, not through the court hearing which the people had
been promised. The people have still, almost 20 years after the accident,
not had their day in court!

It is my opinion that former President Carter should come forth and make the
truth known so that the court cases for the victims can be reopened. I
believe that it should also be made a court ruling that defendants, such as
the nuclear industry, should not be allowed to declare their own witnesses
the official spokespersons for a branch of knowledge, able to define for the
court the methodologies which they accept and practice as the only
legitimate ones! It was such a ploy that was used to dismiss the TMI
plaintiff's witnesses. This is blatant violation of justice and of the human
rights of the victims. It is especially abhorrent in the questions of health
effects of radiation, a field of public health which was usurped by the
nuclear physicists under the exigencies of potential nuclear war after World
War II. Professional Health Physicists are not required to have any training
in biology, public health or any medical discipline. Their methodologies are
very limited and unacceptable to many professionals in the fields of
epidemiology, occupational and public health.

[Signed] Dr. Rosalie Bertell

Notarized by Michele D. Guy, July 10, 1998


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