CS # 1 radiation? link (Pueblo, Leadville: school, living in, dangerous)

[Miss Hepburn]

A friend sent this to me! Great just great.

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/0...m_medium=email

[DrDog]

Sounds like a scam.

[StealthRabbit]

Sounds Like all I was told and learned while living in CO.

And pairs well with the number of deceased Colorado classmates I have. (from cancer related deaths).

Breathing / eating Colorado dust (as a youth and farm kid), rates right up there with being weaned on the diesel smokestrack of a tractor and living under (very near) powerlines. And working 30+ yrs in an aluminum dust environment.

I'm toast, but it has been a good and eventful life.

[MtBierstadt]

So, tin foil hats will come into vogue?


I did work at the Hanford Site in southeastern WA for several years. I never saw so many unusual cancer deaths (e.g., bone cancer in the shoulder). I think it must have all been related to the "green run(s)" the DOE conducted.

[TCHP]

Maybe I don't know how to read the article or its supporting material, but there are no nuclear power plants in Cos to leak out all this radiation, nor any reason why winds would concentrate it here vs any other Front Range location. Its also a very unusual list of cities with no apparent relationship between them other than their reported gamma levels. The list doesn't even support the wind theory within the context of the article.

[beezle1]

Altitude could be a factor.

[otowi]

The website does not appear to be a very reliable or scientific site. However, radiation comes from soil not just power plants, etc., and our higher altitude means we are less shielded from cosmic rays. Colorado's radiation levels from from altitude and uranium that exists in our soils, mostly, and while higher than average is not anywhere near dangerous, according to experts such as Dr. Jeff King at the Colorado School of Mines. https://www.cpr.org/2011/03/22/color...-thats-normal/

[TCHP]

No doubt out altitude exposes us to more A and B ultra violet and the decomposing granite of the region means radon and other gases are constantly entering the atmosphere. Uranium mining in the state also adds factors to this. Constant and excessive gamma radiation in Colo Spgs, I'm not so sure.

As I understand it gamma radiation is the decay of radioactive material. While we do have some naturally occurring in the soils, this article seems to make it sound like are are all cooking from within and doomed to die an early death without citing anything other than a gross measurement of gamma. I'd tend to believe the research of Dr King cited above before this article.

Keep in mind the original posted article above cites numerous low altitude places as well several western state areas. If altitude or nuclear power plants were the only factors, no doubt Leadville, Harrisburg PA, and a few other places would be top of the list. Pueblo might even be on their with their weapons depot. Having Raleigh NC and Portland ME here bely the altitude factor. The Hanford site near Spokane and St George UT being downwind of NV test sites don't surprise me. If they are stretching this to say Colo Spgs is now the primary recipient downwind of the NV tests, their wind model as well as previous research doesn't support the assessment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders
https://www.atomicheritage.org/histo...te-downwinders
https://www.justice.gov/civil/common/reca
https://undark.org/2019/08/01/nuclea...rs-new-mexico/

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by TCHP

... Constant and excessive gamma radiation in Colo Spgs, I'm not so sure. ...

I lived there 11 years and my body is covered with oozing warts, lumps, bumps, pimples, pustules and carbuncles. Women crave me.

[suzco]

Originally Posted by Mike from back east

I lived there 11 years and my body is covered with oozing warts, lumps, bumps, pimples, pustules and carbuncles. Women crave me.

Said the proverbial dirty old man.