Published in the Asbury Park Press
BY NICHOLAS CLUNN
MANAHAWKIN BUREAU
The scientist behind the Tooth Fairy Project announced today yet another study connecting the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant and childhood cancer.
Joseph J. Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project said the study shows the "strongest link'' between routine releases of low-level radiation and the presence of the deadly disease in children younger than 10 years old.
But the findings, published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Health Services earlier this month, probably won't sway state scientists and radiation experts.
The state Commission on Radiation Protection in January released a 44-page report that questioned the validity of the research group and recommended to Gov. Jon Corzine that the state not fund its work.
The Tooth Fairy Project study claimed to have found a correlation between cancer deaths in counties around reactors -- Monmouth and Ocean included -- and levels of strontium-90, a radioactive isotope that's released by reactors and can be measured in baby teeth. Actor Alec Baldwin and supermodel Christie Brinkley helped publicize the study when the research group came to Toms River to announce its results in May 2000.
Published in the Asbury Park Press 03/28/06
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