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Hanford Community Health ProjectHanford Community Health Project
The Hanford Community Health Project (HCHP) is an outreach and education initiative sponsored by ATSDR.
The project seeks to provide educational information and materials about potential health risks to individuals who were exposed as young children to past releases of radioactive iodine (I-131) between 1944 and 1951 from the Hanford Nuclear reservation, which is in south central Washington State (more about Hanford I-131 releases). The project's goal is to assist concerned individuals and their health care providers in making informed health care choices concerning these exposures.

Via this web site and other outreach efforts, the HCHP is working to make information and educational materials about health risks of exposure to I-131 available to people who Learn More About the Hanford Community Health Projectlived in the Hanford region during the period of the I-131 releases. This web site makes available materials that have been developed by several government agencies including, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), the Hanford Health Information Network, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

On this web site you can read and print fact sheets and brochures about Hanford and how I-131 can affect the health of those who were exposed to Hanford releases of I-131; print out an order form to request materials be mailed to you; see other web sites that contain useful information about Hanford and I-131; see contact information for ATSDR and the HCHP team; and also join the HCHP mailing list so that you will be kept informed about the project.

Although the HCHP is focusing specifically on the Hanford releases of I-131, you should be aware that there were other Department of Energy facilities besides Hanford that may have released radioactive Iodine during their operation. These sites include Oak Ridge, TN; Savannah River Site, GA; and the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The atomic tests conducted on Marshall Island and tests conducted by Russia and China are other potential sources of I-131 exposure.


Questions? - Call the ATSDR Information Center toll-free at 1-888-422-8737 or e-mail gthomas@cdc.gov

This page updated October 9, 2002. Webmaster ATSDR-OpeaMail@cdc.gov


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