![]() ![]() At and around Rocky Flats there has been no non-anecdotal (that is, confirmed) evidence of a leukemia problem (except in a report by Carl Johnson in 1981 which I have never been able to find). ![]() By contrast, the “canary in the coal mine” for a radiation problem (for example, Chernobyl) is leukemia, which emerges in less than 4 years. The principal health impact of low doses (see the Knowledge Base for what this means) of nuclear radiation is cancer, and the "latency"-loosely speaking, the time between cause (exposure) and effect (disease)-of many cancers is decades. The issue is the health implications of the radiation legacy of a former plutonium processing plant with (many say) sloppy practices. ![]() If you are a long-timer you may not know what to believe, depending on where you get your information. If you are a newcomer to Colorado or the Denver metro area the history of this area may not be fully known to you. ![]()
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