KPCW Park City
HEAL Utah Community Engagement Director Kenna Patiño talks about some of the issues the state organization is following during this legislative session.
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Park Record
Williams, a former physician who has been working on fighting exposure to radioactivity for the past 20 years, said radiation finds its way into communities through insidious ways.
“I went to medical school with someone who developed thyroid cancer, and all of his siblings developed thyroid cancer,” he said. “They lived in Salt Lake City but got their milk delivered from a dairy that was in Washington County. And that’s where the radiation found its way into the population.”
The most common way radiation spreads is through the air, said Williams
Downwinders
What are downwinders? Downwinders are individuals and communities that were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout due to nuclear weapons testing, the uranium industry,…