In a message dated 11/10/99 11:52:40 PM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< a blue ribbon scientific panel to study the issue.  It turns out that
 >correlation is not causality (as every graduate student should well know)
and
 >that in each and every case, the sociological and economic groupings of the
 >communities began to drastically change when 10's of thousands of migrant
 >workers relocated in the areas to gain employment - and the infant mortality
 >rates of the emigrating groups corresponded with the changes that Sternglass
 >pointed to.  Additionally, most plants are built near natural watersheds and
 >sources that are areas of greatest natural radiation - that accounts for
 >clusters of increases in dread diseases of all kinds in the areas.

         Well I too have been 'actively involved in investigating the
 issue', on & off for 3 decades, and I haven't seen the proof of this last
 statement.  Ref(s) please! >>

Several major epidemiology and other reports from studying the health effects
of Three Mile Island Accident point to natural backgroung radiation in the
area of the plant and one of the largest pockets of radon gas.

Also see the state cartography reports on the dispersal and clustering of
radiation from radon gas.

The reports are on file in the
Pennsylvania Department of Health,
Harrisburg, PA.

See studies of Health effects of Three Mile Island nuclear power Station
Accident, by the Pa Department of Health and its consultants,

They are catelogued in the State library in harrisburg and are available
through interlibrary loan.

The State library Catalog is on the web under Commonwealth of Pennsylvania -
State Library, Harrisburg.

The report on the Sternglass study is tougher to find. The Governor's  office
or the Department of Health should have the reports and they too should be in
the state library in Harrisburg.

In summary there exists a significant literature.

Best wishes,

Stephen Miles Sacks