I hope you hear that from us. Results were released in the Tri-Cities in January. Wednesday's meeting was to provide information and get comments from those northeast of Hanford who could have been exposed to radioactive iodine from the nuclear reservation in the 1940s and 1950s. The study found those who had higher estimated radiation doses appear no more likely to have thyroid diseases than those who had very low doses. Iodine concentrates in the thyroid gland when inhaled or eaten.
Results are still in draft form, with more scientific review to be done.
There will be changes in the report. But we're confident the bottom line of the study will remain the same. He said he had no plans to retract statements unless the review brings substantial changes. She said her family had been decimated. She was born in Richland in 1950 and has severe thyroid disease, she said.