- Admiral Rickover's Statement
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- The following statement was signed by Jane Rickover,
daughter-in-law of Admiral Hyman Rickover, "father" of the nuclear
navy. It was notorized by William Lamson July 18, 1986. Jane Rickover has
verified the authenticity of the document and the events described in it.
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- "In May, 1983, my father-in-law, Admiral Hyman G.
Rickover, told me that at the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor
accident, a full report was commissioned by President Jimmy Carter. He
[my father-in-law] said that the report, if published in its entirety,
would have destroyed the civilian nuclear power industry because the accident
at Three Mile Island was infinitely more dangerous than was ever made public.
He told me that he had used his enormous personal influence with President
Carter to persuade him to publish the report only in a highly "diluted"
form. The President himself had originally wished the full report to be
made public.
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- In November, 1985, my father-in-law told me that he had
come to deeply regret his action in persuading President Carter to suppress
the most alarming aspects of that report.
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- [Signed] Jane Rickover
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- Jane Rickover appeared before me and swore as to the
truth of the above statement.
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- Dated at Toronto this 18th day of July A.D. 1986
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- [Signed] William F. Lamson
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- William F. Lamson Q.C.
- Notary Public for the Province of
- Ontario
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- http://www.mothersalert.org/rickover.html
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- 3 MILE ISLAND COVER-UP
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- DR. ROSALIE BERTELL'S SIGNED, NOTARIZED STATEMENT
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- Dr. Rosalie Bertell is the President of the International
Institute of Concern for Public Health, and a renowned epidemiologist by
profession. She is also an expert on the health effects of low level radiation.
Dr. Bertell received the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Peace
Prize) in 1986. She can be reached at: drrbertell@home.com Phone: 416-260-0575
Below is Dr. Bertell's signed, notarized statement of July 10, 1998 concerning
the ongoing cover-up of the Three Mile Island Accident.
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- "I feel that former President Jimmy Carter should
come forth with all of the facts surrounding the Three Mile Island Accident,
especially those which involved the radiation release and the dose to the
public.
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- This disclosure should, moreover, be in language which
can be easily and correctly understood by the public, and not massaged
to hide the truth. After the accident, for example, I found that the dose
officially assigned to the public, was called: "measured dose to the
public from the accident" - where "measured" meant it only
included the dose after the rate matres were in place the third day after
the accident began; "accident" meant that the radiation dose
received during the same time period in 1978 when the TMI reactors were
all operating and there was Chinese nuclear test fallout, could be subtracted.
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- President Carter was, and continues to be by his silence,
complicit in keeping the true facts of the Three Mile Island Accident from
the American and world public. While it may have been legally although
not morally, permissible to withhold this information in 1979 under the
guise of national security needs, now that the Cold War is over it is no
longer credible that the US government protect the nuclear industry at
the cost of the lives and health of its citizens.
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- As I, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, President of the International
Institute of Concern for Public Health, stated in my e-mail to President
Carter of February 10,1998, President carter was and is involved in the
cover up of the Three Mile island Accident, and in particular the serious
health damage to the people who lived nearby. I was on the Citizen's Advisory
Council to the Blue Ribbon Panel set up by President Carter to investigate
the TMI accident. The members of this public panel did not have FBI clearance,
with the possible exception of Dr. Kemmeny who had worked on the Manhattan
Project. The staff, selected from those who worked for the NRC or DOE,
did have such security clearance, and therefore they were able to withhold
any information they or their superiors wanted to declare "classified:,
from the Panel. The nuclear weapons program demanded that workers and the
military personnel handle this radioactive material and the nuclear ordinance,
therefore health effects of radiation could be classified for national
security to prevent rebellion.
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- At the first meeting of the Citizen's Advisory Council
to the Kemmeny Commission, I brought up this potential problem and asked
what provisions had been made for the Commission members to have security
clearance so that they might have full access to the truth about the accident.
Another Advisory Council Member asked who was in charge of reactor operations
during the accident. These two questions were never answered, and they
were enough to cause the dissolution of the entire advisory panel. In fact,
Dr. Kemmeny even stated publicly to the press that we had never been invited
to Washington [although the Commission paid our air fare and hotel bills].
The Industry Advisory Council to the Kemmeny Commission continued to function
during the investigation.
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- The nuclear industry has frustrated the litigation of
all of the serious health claims of the TMI exposed people, in spite of
the Supreme Court's ruling in 1997 that these claims must be heard. Lawyers
for the nuclear industry are gloating that they are "invincible"
before the Courts. Using dirty tactics, they have managed to eliminate
all of the expert witnesses which the victims had engaged to bring their
cause before the Court, subsequently causing the cases to be dismissed
for lack of witnesses. There may be as many as 2,000 people who have not
had their grievances heard by the courts. This dismissal, after the Supreme
Court Ruling, as accomplished through a judge's ruling, not through the
court hearing which the people had been promised. The people have still,
almost 20 years after the accident, not had their day in court!
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- It is my opinion that former President Carter should
come forth and make the truth known so that the court cases for the victims
can be reopened. I believe that it should also be made a court ruling that
defendants, such as the nuclear industry, should not be allowed to declare
their own witnesses the official spokespersons for a branch of knowledge,
able to define for the court the methodologies which they accept and practice
as the only legitimate ones! It was such a ploy that was used to dismiss
the TMI plaintiff's witnesses. This is blatant violation of justice and
of the human rights of the victims. It is especially abhorrent in the questions
of health effects of radiation, a field of public health which was usurped
by the nuclear physicists under the exigencies of potential nuclear war
after World War II. Professional Health Physicists are not required to
have any training in biology, public health or any medical discipline.
Their methodologies are very limited and unacceptable to many professionals
in the fields of epidemiology, occupational and public health.
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- [Signed] Dr. Rosalie Bertell
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- Notarized by Michele D. Guy, July 10, 1998
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- http://www.mothersalert.org/bertell.html
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- More Revelations On TMI
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- Below is a letter to Dr. Rosalie Bertell from Paul Blanche,
- a noble whistlebower who concurs with Dr. Bertell's
- summation of what really happend at Three Mile Island
in 1979.
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- Dr. Bertell:
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- You don't know me but may have read about me in the Time
magazine cover story in February 1996 and also the front page of the Wall
Street Journal in March 1998. I am a prominent whistleblower who uncovered
major corruption within the NRC and my employer Northeast Utilities. As
a result of events I uncovered at Millstone, Northeast Utilities was almost
bankrupted, and the NRC extremely embarrassed.
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- I was one of the expert witnesses at the TMI litigation
and agree with you there was a major cover-up of vital information. The
presidential commissions, the NRC and the DOE are all aware of this cover-up.
As an expert witness, I had access to the all the original records. I have
documented evidence, which I have given to the NRC, that the primary containment
was breached shortly after the hydrogen explosion that occurred on March
30, 1979.
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- This breach occurred at a time when the radioactivity
in the containment was close to its peak. Preliminary estimates indicate
that as many as 40 million curies may have been released during the following
hours. The NRC and the licensee estimated the maximum of 10 million curies
of releases.
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- Not one of the studies ever even questioned the data
that was readily available as it could have alarmed members of the general
public. Contact me if you have any questions.
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- Paul M. Blanch
- 135 Hyde Rd.
- West Hartford, CT 06117
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- http://www.mothersalert.org/blanche.html
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