[nightdriver]

I think they got several things wrong with this. Nevada is south of Idaho, so a north wind would probably not bring radiation to Idaho from the Nevada testing grounds.

However, the prevailing wind in the area of Idaho mentioned in the article is from the northwest, directly downstream from the Hanford nuclear reservation in the state of Washington.

We know that sometime in the '50s, Hanford released 5,000 curies of radioactive iodine "just to see what it would do." That stuff would have swept over the town of Emmett in Idaho, as well as my old home town of Weiser.

My mother died of thyroid cancer in 1988.

[neverdem]

I'm sorry to read about the loss of your mother. Thank's for the info.

[redhead]

"I think they got several things wrong with this. Nevada is south of Idaho, so a north wind would probably not bring radiation to Idaho from the Nevada testing grounds. However, the prevailing wind in the area of Idaho mentioned in the article is from the northwest, directly downstream from the Hanford nuclear reservation in the state of Washington. We know that sometime in the '50s, Hanford released 5,000 curies of radioactive iodine "just to see what it would do." That stuff would have swept over the town of Emmett in Idaho, as well as my old home town of Weiser. My mother died of thyroid cancer in 1988."

I'm a "Downwinder," too. We moved to Payson (Utah Valley) in 1949, and lived there for the entire decade of the fifties, until 1964. The prevailing winds in the valley are from the southwest.

I remember the iodine tablets they gave us at school every month, and I know that now, my two sisters and I all have seriously impaired thyroid function, in spite of the iodine.

[Smokin' Joe]

Seems to me they had an accident at the SL-1 reactor there in the '50's also. You might check that out.