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I have not read Dr. Dixie Lee Ray, although I have heard of her. Was she a former Director of Los Alamos, and possibly a Governor of Washington State? I have no idea of what her position is. My opinions are based mostly on personal experience and reading books written by former Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, and Dr. John Gofman, the later a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was the co-discoverer of Uranium 233. One of the interesting chapter in Dr. Gofman's book, "Radiation and Human Health", contains a chapter entitled "Hanford Death Studies". You might find that one interesting.

I just checked the Columbia, South Carolina "Star" website and read the article where Federal Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed Governor Jim Hodge's law suit. One can't help but wonder how much the judge knows about radiation/health issues.

Sometime back, when I was more involved in research, I read an article that said Savannah River was already one of the most nuclear unsafe areas in the United States and in some ways compared it to that reactor at Cherynoble, waiting to happen.

I think all these people bashing Hodges should answer two questions. First, if he was a conservative republican would they still be upset with him? And second, would they welcome those spent fuel rods to their own neighborhood? As for dixy lee ray, I grew up quite close to her, and knew her family a bit. She was a Zoologist, whose main scientific research was the study of marine worms. She was a very colorfull gov, but mangaged to alienate just about everybody with her style. As for her book, it is woefully outdated. It is not footnoted, has no scientific research to back up her claims that acid rain does no harm, that pesticides are not harmful, and that radiation is actually good for you. It was mostly written by Lou Guzzo, a local journalist, and another character, as we say, but somone whose knowledge of science could be comfortably held in a thimble.