FRESH meeting. Part 3.

Date:
1989
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Further questions from the residents are answered. There is a clear need for a survey of all deaths in the locality of the facility, although the residents are highly suspicous of the authorities, having anecdotal evidence to suggest that important information is being suppressed - such as the genuine causes of death. The residents quiz Dr Stewart about collecting data and also the potential inherited risks over a number of generations. The meeting concludes.

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Ohio : John Baumann, 1989.

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1 Betacam NTSC tape (23:30 mins.)
1 Digibeta PAL tape (23:30 mins.)
1 VHS BITC PAL tape (23:30 mins.)
1 DVD (30 mins.)

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Wellcome Trust 2009.

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The Fernald Feed Materials Center in Fernald (Ohio, USA) was in operation between 1951-1989 and processed uranium for nuclear weapons facilities.
More material about Alice Stewart is available in the Wellcome Library PP/AMS.
Part 3 of 3; an informally shot meeting of FRESH; Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health. This meeting was attended by Dr Alice Stewart, aged 83 at the time, who explains her involvement on the board, which was commissioned to produce an independent assessment of the health risks of low level radiation around this facility. (She was an honorary member of the department of social medicine at the University of Birmingham, UK.) This footage was captured at the point where the plant is being decommissioned. The authorities are tackling social and environmental repercussions amidst growing dismay of the long term health effects from local residents and former employees.

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Produced by John Baumann.

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