- location, location, location

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C wrote:

> When you say displaced yankees, are you talking about New England? I heard a

report on the news the other night that Massachusetts has one of the highest

percentages of thyroid cancer (other cancers also, but my ears picked up on the

thyroid ca part)

Really? I'd never heard that. Then again, I don't live in Massachusetts, so

I guess it wouldn't be on our local news here in New York. A few years ago, it

seemed very clear from the members' hometowns that there just coincidentally

happen to be thyroid cancer clusters in areas near nuclear plants (Seattle,

Toronto, Buffalo, Three Mile Island ....)

> My husband was 30 when first diagnosed, no risk factors, xrays, etc. Except

that we did live near (is 12 miles near enough?) from a nuclear plant.

That's certainly close enough to do the trick :-)

> Things that make ya go hmmmm.....

hmmmm ....

10.0 miles from nearest nuclear waste shipping route (en route to Yucca or

wherever)

38.1 miles from nearest nuclear plant

NYC

BTW - for anyone who really wants to know, here's a web site that will map out

for you how close your home is to proposed high level nuclear waste shipments

....... http://www.mapscience.org

Also, locations, information, maps of nuclear reactors in the United States ....

http://www.nucleartourist.com/us/us1.htm