Hanford
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
lived
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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