health | Jorge's Ponderings

Year	KilloTon	Explosions	% Total
1951	112	Atmospheric
1952	104	Atmospheric
1953	252	Atmospheric
1955	167	Both	0.4%
1957	345	Both	0.9%
1958	46	Both	0.1%
1961	357	Underground	0.9%
1962	587	Underground	1.5%
1963	698	Underground	1.7%
1964	1891	Underground	4.7%
1965	1831	Underground	4.5%
*1966*	5790	Underground 106	14.3%
*1967*	5528	Underground 78	13.7%
1970	565	Underground	1.4%
*1971*	5200	Underground 39	12.9%
1972	958	Underground	2.4%
1973	274	Underground	0.7%
1974	2840	Underground	7.0%
*1975*	5994	Underground 58	14.8%
1976	635	Underground	1.6%
1977	1122	Underground	2.8%
1978	717	Underground	1.8%
1979	452	Underground	1.1%
1980	322	Underground	0.8%
1981	938	Underground	2.3%
1982	365	Underground	0.9%
1983	521	Underground	1.3%
1984	670	Underground	1.7%
1985	549	Underground	1.4%
1986	970	Underground	2.4%
1987	697	Underground	1.7%
1988	438	Underground	1.1%
1989	426	Underground	1.1%
1990	478	Underground	1.2%
1991	172	Underground	0.4%
Totals	43,011	Atmospheric	468	Underground	42,543

The table above presents a summary of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site from 1951.

The table below identifies the radiations produced by these tests, their half life, and human health concerns.

Isotopes Produced	Half Life	Health Concerns
Iodine-131	8 Days	Thyroid
Cesium-137	30 Years	Gamma
Strontium-90	29 Years	Bone
Iodine-129	15,700,000 Years	Thyroid
Xenon-133	5.2 Days
Tellurium-132	3.2 Days
Barium-140	12.8 Days
Zirconium-95	64 Days
Ruthenium-106	1 Year
Plutonium-239	24,100 Years	Actinide – Lung, Liver, Bone
Plutonium-240	6,560 Years	Actinide – Lung, Liver, Bone
Americanium-241	432 Years	Liver, Bone
Tritium / Hydrogen-3	12.3 Years	Whole Body – Weak Beta
Technetium-99	211,000 Years	Beta Dose
Carbon-14	5,730 Years	Beta Dose
Clorine-36	301,000 Years	Beta Dose
Np-237	2,140,000 Years	Alpha Dose
U	Long	Kidney

	At Risk Groups
Current Age (2023)	Exposure Age	Risk
Infants	1st Trimester	low IQ
48,52,56,57		low birth weight
		delayed development
		neurocognative imparment
		Thyroid hazard
Children	less than 5 yesrs	pulmanry
53 thru 62		lukaemia
Teens	less than 20	brain cancer
68 thru 77		brest cancer
		low sperm count
Adults	20 or more	cataract
greater than 77

The Table above identifies the health risks of people at various phases of their life when radiation levels were high (1966/7, 1971, & 1975). Their present (2023) ages are identified to provide a view of possible current health problems.

The following applies to the radiation impacts upon health from the below ground detonations, conducted after 1961.

FACTS, not opinions or political spin or Another Failed Desert Real Estate Scam
:

From 1961 until 1991 more than 42 thousand underground nuclear tests involving 1000 detonations occurred in the Las Vegas Nevada valley.

These detonations produced the highest radiation exposure of anywhere on the planet. Residents are the Experiment’s Lab Rat!

The resulting radiation levels from these detonations remains very high for many years. The Tests Continue – but Who’s looking!

The Nevada Test Site (high desert) where most of these tests occurred is approximately 20 to 65 miles upstream from Las Vegas and Henderson Nevada. Water flows downhill!

Today approximately 10 to 20 % of the Las Vegas / Henderson city drinking water flows underground through the Las Vegas valley. Or There Abouts! Not Either/Or but Both/And

Official statement – “Las Vegas’s main drinking water today comes from Lake Mead and the Colorado River system”, not directly from the old test site. Las Vegas and Henderson have switched from well water supplies to Lake Mead. They claim that city drinking water is now safe. Sure!

The memory of contamination has “faded a great deal in the mainstream real estate market”. Your money goes further here!

Another Failed Desert Real Estate Scam

“Henderson’s health profile is shaped more by modern urban factors than by nuclear-test history alone”. To make the comparison useful, you would want to look at “mortality, cancer incidence, birth outcomes, thyroid disease, respiratory illness, and socioeconomic controls”.

“Modern urban health problems” in Las Vegas and Henderson are dominated by factors like smoking, obesity, air pollution, heat, and healthcare access, which can overshadow any residual fallout signal in population statistics.

The overall picture is that federal and state monitoring has focused on whether radionuclides from the test site are moving off-site through “groundwater”, while local Clark County and Las Vegas programs have focused much more on “general water quality and habitat contaminants” than on Nevada Test Site fallout specifically.

“The problem is technically enormous.” Nearly 1,000 announced tests in Nevada, different yields, different burial depths, different geologies, different weather patterns, and different radionuclides create a very difficult reconstruction problem.

Drinking well water, as well as eating crops irrigated with Las Vegas valley underground water, continue to produce large radiation exposure.

Naturally occurring Tritium and other radioactive substances are present in the natural environment; but in very small quantities.

Some contaminants, such as Tritium, can not be filtered out, or otherwise effectively removed. Home filtering as well as city processing is ineffective.

Separating Tritium (heavy water) from normal water requires expensive treatment using centrifugal separation or extensive filtration. It is Water!

Milk from cows in the Las Vegas valley has been proven to have transmitted radioactive Iodine into human thyroid tissue. All food produced in the Las Vegas valley contains elevated contamination.

So … what’s a body to do …

Visitors – bring drinking water, milk and food from home. Or maybe … just don’t go!

Residents – buy water, milk and food from elsewhere = no farmer’s markets. Or maybe … just leave!