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The study found elevated leuk- emia rates in children living near nuclear facilities, including the Pickering lant. Durham Nuclear Awareness hosted a forum on radiation and health last Thursday night, fea- turing lectures by tbree noted experts on the subject at the Oshawa Public IÀbrary. Marjorie Aamodt, a former resident of the Three Mile Island area and an activist stili seeking tbe truth about the accident, spoe on that accident and its etTects on people living in the area. Aamodt is still figbting for a hearing on the the healtb issues connected with the 1979 acci- dent. A peiu bid. to reopen the case in 1986 was denied by the Supreme Court. She bas legal action pendinr against a local healtb officiaf, ad bas recently mailed a bealth surveY te journalists and others who came into the TMI area after the accident. Eleven journalists who came into the area covering the acci- dent have since died of cancer. Aamodt lived on a farm about 70 kilometers from the nuclear plant when the accident occur- red. "I left in a panic on the third day, thinking that radiation was going to corne out 200 miles te our farm," she said to the audience. No evacuation was planned by the government in the wake of the disaster, and they still do not tbink a planned evacuation was necessary, Aaniodt said. She and ber family moved te Lake Placid, New York, shortly tbereafter, but did not give up on ber studv of the bealtb effeets of for a reopening of the TMI case. Aamodt described the commTfofl experience of those who were in the area during the radiation leak. Many residents experienced serious skin burns, and a taste of galvanized steel immediately. Later bealth disorders were rsstent and debilitating diarr- hea(some stili have it), unbealed sores, and a large increase in the numbers of those with cancer and heart disease. A second speaker, Dr. Erie Mintz, an epidemiologist ' explained the use of epidemniolo- gecai studies to access and moni- tor comniunity health. Dr. Rosalie Berteli an expert on radiation and heaith, related what had happened to children who lived through the Chernobyl accident in 1986. More than 200,000 of 620,000 people evacuated after the acci- dent were children. One tbousand pregnant women were among the evacua- ted. Only 65 gave birth, and only 37 babies are stili alive, Berterl said. She was invited to tour the nuclear site on the third anni- versary of the accident by the Ukrainian Peace Committee. She said the Soviet people are not happy with their governnient either, as demands they made after evacuation were ignored. "Six hundred thousand people were told they are fine and to corne back for a checkup, but tbey are angry because they know they are not fine," she said. Berteil said the Ontario leuke- mia study did not go far enough and did not use correct figures. 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