Indian Point Unit 2 tripped        January 11, 2010   Indian Point nuclear plant officials say amount of radioactive steam released was 'Insignificant' BY Abby Luby  SPECIAL TO THE NEWS Friday, December 11th 2009, 4:00 AM That cloud spewing out of the Indian Point nuclear plant last month wasn't a smoke signal - it was radioactive steam.  Read more>>> Di Paola/Bloomberg - Traces of radioactivity were released via steam leak at Indian Point nuclear power plant, but officials said there was no cause for concern.   New report shows newborn hypothyroidism rate near Indian Point is 92% above US Mothers Milk Project at Hawk Watch Festival and Green Bazaar! Meet Deo and Theo, 3-week-old babies of Mothers Milk Project participant Cindy-Lu! Note to Breastfeeding Moms: Bring us a sample of your milk! The Hawk Watch Festival and Green Bazaar takes place Saturday September 19 and Sunday September 20 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Audubon Greenwich, 613 Riversville Road. $10 for adults 18 and older, $7 for youth 3 and older, and free for under 3. 203-869-5272, www.greenwich.audubon.org. Mothers Milk Project at Clearwater Hudson River Revival Festival in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, June 20 and 21. Mothers Milk Project co-directors Margo Schepart (l) and Nancy Burton welcome visitors to their booth and encourage lactating mothers to share their breastmilk confidentially for analysis to detect radioactivity. Cindy-Lu-the-Goat and her kids, Luna and Dude, are the star attraction of the Mothers Milk Project display. They live 25 miles downwind of Indian Point. Cindy-Lu's milk contains strontium-90 and strontium-89, carcinogens especially harmful to developing babies and young children. Sr-90 and Sr-89 are routinely released by the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant 6 miles north of the festival site. SCREENING PROGRAM TO TEST IF INDIAN POINT HAS HARMED THYROID GLANDS OF LOCAL RESIDENTS For immediate release Contact Joseph Mangano 609-399-4343 Sharon Cunningham 647-477-5672 Ernest J. Sternglass, Ph.D. writes an open letter to:Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy 2/7/2009 Breast Is Best - New Yorker magazine 1/19/2009 Radioactive fish breast cancer rates and a nuclear power plant thecancerblog.com 06/13/2006 Join the Mothers Milk Project at the Beacon Sloop Club CORN FESTIVAL Sunday, August 10, 2008 Noon to 5 PM at the Beacon NY Waterfront Bring us a sample of your breast milk - we will test it for radioactivity for free! Take Metro-North to Beacon Station Visit www.beaconsloop.org Help spread the word! Download this flier and share it with your friends and post it in your community! PLEASE DONATE  A SAMPLE OF YOUR BREAST MILK! We are collecting mothers milk within a 50-mile radius of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York and Connecticut. The milk will be analyzed confidentially for traces of radioactivity - strontium-90 - which is routinely released by Indian Point. Strontium-90 causes birth defects, bone cancer and leukemia. Exposure increases risks for breast, lung and other soft tissue cancers. Help us create a database of information. The New York State Department of Health and Indian Point’s owner stopped sampling cow’s milk near Indian Point in 1991 - just as strontium-90 levels were increasing. They never sampled human breast milk. Visit www.MothersMilkProject.org!  Mothers Milk Project at Indian Point Benefit Join the Mothers Milk Project at its table at the Monday, June 30, 2008 Indian Point Safe Energy Council benefit at Lincoln Center in New York City. The event includes two film screenings: the New York premiere of award-winning "Woven Ways," which explores the impact of uranium mining on the Navajo people, and "Nowhere to Run," about consequences of an accident at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in Buchanan, New York. 6:30 P.M. to 10:30 P.M. Walter Reader Theatre at Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam. Tickets $20. Dear Muscoot Farm, Please share Pineapple's milk with the Mothers Milk Project!
Muscoot Farm is a beautiful working and educational farm located exactly 10 miles downwind of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in Somers, New York. Pineapple, the Jersey cow pictured here, is milked twice a day. Some of her milk is fed to her calf, Papaya, and the rest is fed to the Tamworth pigs (pictured here taking their morning nap) as swill. Westchester County owns Muscoot Farm and it is well maintained by Westchester County taxpayers. The Mothers Milk Project is asking Muscoot Farm to share one quart of Pineapple's milk once a month to be tested for radioactivity. The Mothers Milk Project is also asking for samples of goat milk from Isabelle (left) and Skye (right). We hope to extend special thanks on this website to Muscoot Farm for their contributions to our project!

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Mothers Milk Project Signs Up Breastfeeding Mothers at Clearwater Festival on June 21

Mothers Milk Project co-directors Nancy Burton and Gail Merrill signed on a dozen more lactating mothers from New York and Connecticut communities to donate their breastmilk samples for radioactivity testing. Pictured here is a New York City mother and her baby who signed on to the Project. Cindy-Lu-the-Goat, who visited the Festival with her kids, Hannah and Henry, gave her first live radio interview with WBAI. George Amarant, of Haddam, Connecticut, dropped by to tell us he kept three milking goats near his home one mile west of the now-defunct Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in the 1970s. He said the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission told him they would test his goats' milk for Iodine-131 but not strontium-90 because they predicted the strontium-90 would be below detectable levels.

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Mothers Milk Project Invites Lactating Mothers at
Clearwater Hudson River Revival Festival to
Give Milk Samples For Indian Point Study

The Mothers Milk Project invites lactating women to share samples of their breastmilk at the annual Clearwater Hudson River Revival. The Project will share a booth with WestCan (Westchester Citizens Awareness Network).
Where: Croton Point Park, Croton NY
When: Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22 from 12 noon to dusk, rain or shine.
For more information and directions visit: www.Clearwater.org and www.IPSECinfo.org.

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Listen to the Mothers Milk Project interview with Rebecca Myles on WBAI-Pacifica Radio, 99.5 FM on the June 18, 2008 evening news from 6 to 6:30 PM (repeated at 11 PM) and streamed live at www.wbai.org.

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Legendary songwriter Pete Seeger joined Mothers Milk Project leaders as they accepted a donation of mother's milk at the Strawberry Festival in Beacon, New York on June 15, 2008

Fifteen more breastfeeding mothers signed on to donate their milk to have it tested for levels of strontium-90 and other radioisotopes routinely emitted by the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in Buchanan, New York.

Cindy-Lu-the-Goat, also a milk donor, and her kids Hannah and Henry greeted visitors to the Mothers Milk Project booth.

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Have your goat's milk tested for strontium-90!

Breastfeeding mothers offered samples of their milk on June 5, 2008 to launch the Mothers Milk Project to test for radionuclides within a 50-mile radius of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in Buchanan, New York. A milk donation was also made by Nubian Goat Cindy-Lu, mother of Hannah and Henry, pictured to the right.

    The Mothers Milk Project is being launched on June 5, 2008 to begin a systematic sampling of mothers milk produced by humans and other mammals living within 50 miles of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in Buchanan, New York.
    Indian Point's owner and the New York State Department of Health stopped sampling cow's milk near Indian Point in 1991 and have never tested human breast milk.
    The project is an unpredecented campaign to create a database of findings of the potential presence of radioisotopes in milk of mammalians, including humans, near the nuclear power plant.
    Indian Point, in common with all nuclear power plants, is designed to routinely release fission products into the air. These include strontium-90, which has a half-life of 30 years and remains biologically active for 600 years. Strontium-90 mimics calcium in its chemical composition and is readily taken up by bone cells and teeth, where it continuously emits pulses of energy which disrupt the functions of nearby cells. Strontium-90 exposure is linked to bone cancer, leukemia, diseases of the immune system and cancer of soft tissue including breast and lung. Strontium-90 is only one of more than 100 radioisotopes routinely released by Indian Point. All are carcinogens and all.are most harmful to young children and developing babies.
    We encourage breastfeeding mothers to participate in this program by donating a cup of their breast milk monthly. Each sample will be divided into four parts: one for the New York State Department of Health, one for Entergy, Indian Point's owner, one for the project's independent laboratory, and one to be retained by the project. There is no cost and all samples will be taken confidentially with results anonymous.
    The Mothers Milk Project will also include dairy cow and goat milk samplings. Other mammals may be included as well.
    The Mothers Milk Project is designed to inform the community about a known hazard - radiation - which is insidious because it cannot be seen, tasted, smelled or detected except with sophisticated equipment and which is biologically harmful at any degree of exposure.
    Please return to this website for future updates.
    To donate milk to the Mothers Milk Project, click here