[afraidfortherepublic]

Prosser? Isn't there a big nuclear facility there? A facility that has faced years of complaints and lawsuits? Any ation?

[logi_cal869]

I saw that and read it. I debated posting for reasons on which I won’t elaborate.

For what it’s worth...

Yakima is 35 miles as-the-east-wind-blows from the Hanford Reservation.

[Gamecock]

Most obvious question: How many branches are on the family tree?

[logi_cal869]

...and since it wasn’t me that posted it:

http://times.org/2013/12/18/the-long-tragic-trail/

http://www.hanford.gov/c.cfm/sgrp/GWRep10/html/gw10_13_0.pdf

[wolfman]

Fukushima

[texas booster]

I remember an outbreak of anencephaly in the Rio Grande Valley in the 70’s or 80’s.

Traced to an outbreak of a corn mold in grain used for masa.

Treated by increasing folic acid in prenatal care, and tighter controls on corn meal.

[Revel]

Well the name of the town sounds almost Japanese. Just saying.

[hinckley buzzard]

It has been advised for at least twenty years that pregnant women take folic acid to insure against these neural tube defects. It is rather specific.

[zlala]

I had 2 babies (in the 80’s) in Sunnyside, closer to Hanford than Yakima - they were and are just fine. My two daughters have had a total of 4 children born at Yakima Memorial Hospital (within a 10 yr period). All four were and are fine. However, in the past 10 yrs I've had 5-6 friends die of cancer. All lived in Selah (bedroom community to Yakima). Is that related to the pesticides used in agriculture? Who knows, could be from the ash fall from Mt St Helens. But unless long-term studies are done, it may never be known if there is a link.

[husky ed]

Yakima is the site of a large Indian reservation. And there is a very large population of migrant workers, both legal and illegal.

Their living conditions are on the shitty side to say the least and has not improved even with mandates from the State.

And as the article states that this was noticed 3 to 4 years ago. The Japan Nuke disaster would not be a contributing factor. Also with Hanford being so close.
What are the effects on the other communities in the area? The Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Richland, Pasco and West Richland but they still call it the Tri-Cities) has a pop of close to 200,000 (also with a large pop of legal and illegal migrant workers). Has the rate of these birth defects also risen at the same rate?

Ed

[familyop]

A result of pot smoking and other libertine behaviors after a couple of generations.

[proudpapa]

Pesticides?

[Vendome]

It’s in the taters ....

[firebrand]

Hanford, near the Columbia River, right nearby. Oregon environmentalists got Oregon’s only reactor destroyed and buried—in Washington State, across the river.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Are they getting their pre-natals?

[toothfairy86]

I remember hearing about many cases of anencephaly amongst people along the Texas/Mexico border. Especially around Matamoros/Brownsville. If these migrant workers grew up around that area, that may explain it too. The majority of the cases happened on the Mexican side.

[saleman]

“But as of January 2013, officials with the Washington state health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had counted nearly two dozen cases in three years, a rate four times the national average.”

“Clusters” happen often. Especially with not very common problems. It’s easy to get concerned but consider this.

2 dozen cases in three years. 8 cases a year. Four times national average would be an additional 6 cases a year. In a 3 county area.

Averages are called average exactly because they are the best of the best and the worst of the worse. Heck somebody has to be at the bottom. Or the top.....

[Viennacon]

One word... LIBERALISM

[GOPJ]

NBC News wins the ‘stoopid’ prize:

http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/latestlocalnews/1607885-8/11th-tank-emptied-of-nuclear-waste-at-hanford

[GOPJ]

Hanford was an old nuclear plant and one of the only - if NOT the only plant - that didn’t have a containment building around their reactor. The site was a disaster for years... IMHO...

[GOPJ]

Hanford was an old nuclear plant and one of the only - if NOT the only plant - that didn’t have a containment building around their reactor in it’s early years. The site was a disaster for years... IMHO...