My wife and I lived in Elizabethtown PA when TMI occurred. My wife was finishing up her medical residency at Hershey Medical Center. I was just a MS student at Millersville and since my wife had to stay with her patients, we left our house in E-town and moved with a friend for a short while near the medical center. I still remember driving to Lancaster to drop our wedding pictures off thinking we may never come back to Elizabethtown.
radiation over a 1000 times greater than the estimated TMI releases
Long story………., but the research I started performing around TMI in the days following the accident led me to a career as an epidemiologist with a focus on radiation. We published the only paper showing contamination to the wild food chain around TMI and later a study with deer that suggested there was not widespread radionuclide contamination. Papers attached.
What is really under (actually never publicized ) reported is that the counties around TMI have the highest regional radon levels in the nation. See attached paper. For translation. 1 pCi/L = 37 Bq/m3. The radon has no connection to TMI.
Instead of a meltdown at a nuclear plant, the residents in the area are exposed to radiation over a 1000 times greater than the estimated TMI releases.
Bill