Elevated Levels of Tritium at the WTC Complex
After 9/11, tests of water near the WTC Complex revealed the presence of Tritium.
Considering that the WTC Complex was flooded with water for 3 months after 9/11,
the Tritium levels in the water most probably were heavily diluted.
Elevated tritium levels in the water around the WTC Complex have beeen explained as nothing unusual, by some people.
There have been a few attempts at explanations for the Elevated Levels of Tritium.
These include:
- Smoke Detectors in the WTC Buildings
- Exit Signs aboard the Boeing 767's
- Guns located at the World Trade Center
Note: Gun sights attached to firearms in WTC Building 6 did contain small amounts of Tritium.
About Tritium
Tritium is produced naturally in the upper atmosphere for the earth, when cosmic rays strike nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere.
Tritium is produced when nuclear weapons are detonated and is also produced in nuclear reactors used to produce electricity as a by-product
of a nuclear reaction.
The most notable use of Tritium is as a component in the triggering mechanism in nuclear weapons.
Nation states which have nuclear weapons capabilities require large amounts of Tritium for maintenance of their nuclear weapons arsenal.
Tritium is also used in self-luminescent devices such as, but not limited to, Exit Signs in buildings, gun sights, night sights, gauges, luminous paints, wristwatches and aircraft dials.
Elevated levels of Tritum were detected at the WTC Complex.
Were the amounts of Tritium detected in the water at the WTC Complex actually diluted?
Regardless can the levels of Tritium found in the water be explained?
"Traces of tritiated water (HTO) were detected at [the]World Trade Center (WTC) ground zero after the 9/11/01 terrorist attack. A method of ultralow-background
liquid scintillation counting was used after distilling HTO from the samples.
A water sample from the WTC sewer, collected on 9/13/01, contained 0.174 plus or minus 0.074 (2s) nCi/L of HTO.
A split water sample, collected on 9/21/01 from the basement of WTC Building 6, contained 3.53 plus or minus 0.17 and 2.83 plus or minus 0.15 nCi/L, respectively.
Several water and vegetation samples were analyzed from areas outside the ground zero, located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Kensico Reservoir."
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Lawerence Berkley National Laboratory
- Elevated tritium levels at the World Trade Center
SOURCE_URL: http://repositories.cdlib.org/lbnl/LBNL-50782/
Did The Tritium Come From Exit Signs In The WTC Towers?
No, the Tritium did not come from Exit Signs within the WTC Towers.
This is a desperate attempt to explain the levels of Tritium in the water around the WTC Complex.
The levels of Tritium found in the WTC Water samples were 55 times higher than background.
The WTC Towers did not have Exit Signs that contained Tritium.
"Tritium is used in self-luminescent emergency EXIT signs. No such signs were present inside the WTC buildings."
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U.S. Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Tritium in the World Trade Center September 11th, 2001 Terrorist Attack: It's Possible Sources and Fate
SOURCE_URL: http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/pdf/240430.pdf
Possible explanations for Tritium at the World Trade Center?
"GTLS are used extensively in weaponry and are standard equipment in military as well as law enforcement.
Of interest to this work are gun sights containing GTLS capsules, either cylindrical or spherical, which facilitate aiming at night.
There are two categories of interest: scopes and night sights.
The content of tritium depends on the configuration as well as on the manufacturer.
Trijicon Inc. uses 100 mCi in scopes and three capsules of 18 mCi each (54 mCi total) in night sights (24). Innovative Weaponry Inc. uses 54 mCi in their PT night sights (25).
Meprolight Ltd. uses between 30 to 54 mCi per set of night sights (26)."
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"The ATF vaults were in WTC 6, where our samples 6 and 7 were measured. A total of 63 police officers died in the attack (11).
They may have been carrying pistols equipped with tritium night sights.
In fact, many guns have been recovered from the debris (47,48,49), some of them in good condition.
It would take 20 equipped weapons destroyed, 50 mCi each, to give approximately 1 Ci of tritium (Section 4)."
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"Our modeling suggests that such a scenario would require a minimum of 120 equipped weapons destroyed and a quantitative capturing of tritium, which is too high, since many weapons were found with only minor
damage and tritium sights are shielded in a metal. Therefore, such a mechanism alone is not sufficient to account for the measured HTO concentrations."
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Study of Traces of Tritium at the World Trade Center
SOURCE_URL: http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/pdf/241096.pdf
Spatial Distributions of Iodine-131 and the Geochemical "Fingerprint"
"The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City introduced large amounts of ash and debris over an extensive area including
New York Harbor (NYH) and the Lower Hudson Estuary. Previous results have identified a textural and elemental "fingerprint" for this ash/debris that can be seen as a
quantifiable event horizon in NYH surface sediments. In addition, the short-lived radioisotope, I-131 (half-life, 8.04 days), was unexpectedly identified in the surface
sediments, which corroborated that this sediment was recently deposited and anthropogenically influenced. On July 24-25, 2002, additional sediment cores were collected
in the sites occupied in 2001 and in various locations throughout NYH (on both the Manhattan and New Jersey sides of the Hudson river) in order to determine the spatial
extent of both the WTC "fingerprint" and the I-131 signal."
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Harvard University
- Spatial Distributions of Iodine-131 and the Geochemical "Fingerprint" from the World Trade Center Terrorist Attack in New York Harbor Sediments
SOURCE_URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002AGUFMOS22B0280O
What is Radioactive Iodine?
Iodine-131 is a radioactive isotope of iodine.
It has a half life of approximately 8 days.
It is associated with nuclear energy and is a product of nuclear fission.
It is a significant health hazard, and has been identified as such in relation to the nuclear testing done in the
1950's and 1960's as well as the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster.
Iodine-131 is a uranium and plutonium fission product and comprises nearly 3% of the total fission products by weight.
Chernobyl, Radioactive Iodine And Thyroid Cancer
"A large increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer has occurred among people who were young children and adolescents at the time of the accident and lived in the most
contaminated areas of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. This was due to the high levels of radioactive iodine released from the Chernobyl reactor in the early days
after the accident. Radioactive iodine was deposited in pastures eaten by cows who then concentrated it in their milk which was subsequently drunk by children.
This was further exacerbated by a general iodine deficiency in the local diet causing more of the radioactive iodine to be accumulated in the thyroid. Since radioactive iodine
is short lived, if people had stopped giving locally supplied contaminated milk to children for a few months following the accident, it is likely that most of the increase in
radiation-induced thyroid cancer would not have resulted."
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World Health Organization
- Health effects of the Chernobyl accident: an overview
SOURCE_URL: http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/backgrounder/en/index.html
9/11 Related Cancers:
"May 31, 2007 -- A group of 9/11 responders has
contracted blood cancers at an unusually young age, and top doctors suspect the
disease was triggered by an unprecedented "synergistic mix" of toxins at the
World Trade Center site.
The WTC Medical Monitoring Program is now studying a group of Ground Zero
workers, including cops, construction workers and volunteers, suffering from
cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma."
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New York Post: 9/11 CANCER COPS BLOOD DISEASES DEVELOP IN YOUNG WTC RESPONDERS
SOURCE_URL:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05312007/news/regionalnews/9_11_cancer_cops_regionalnews_susan_edelman.htm
"Thyroid cancer affects the butterfly-shaped thyroid gland, which is positioned at the lower neck and is responsible for
regulating hormones effecting heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and weight.
It is one of 69 different forms of cancer linked to 9/11 by doctors at the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP).
More than 1,400 cases of thyroid cancer have been diagnosed among WTCHP enrollees.
It is the sixth-most diagnosed cancer affecting 9/11 survivors and responders. "
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Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for The 9/11 Community
Thyroid Cancer
SOURCE_URL: https://www.post911attorneys.com/post-911/thyroid-cancer/
HOW MANY PEOPLE GOT CANCER FROM 9/11?
"To date, there are 34,000 known 9/11 cancer cases. However, this number is expected to increase as more
people get diagnosed with cancer caused by previous 9/11 dust exposure."
LEUKEMIA
"The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society reports that 9/11 survivors have a 41% higher chance of developing
leukemia than the average American citizen of the same age."
THYROID CANCER
"Thyroid cancer is one of the most common kinds of cancer linked to exposure to Ground Zero after 9/11.
Survivors, first responders, and those near the area after the attack have a 219% higher chance of
developing thyroid cancer."
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Pitta & Baione LLP - 9/11 Compensation Attorneys
9/11 CANCER LIST
SOURCE_URL: https://911benefits.com/blog/911-cancer/
"Among persons enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry,
there was an excess risk for prostate cancer, thyroid cancer, and myeloma in 2007-2008 compared with that for
New York State residents; however, these findings were based on a small number of events and multiple comparisons."
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Association Between World Trade Center Exposure and Excess Cancer Risk
SOURCE_URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1486831
"In conclusion, our investigation identified elevated incidence rates in all-sites cancer combined, as well as in
prostate, thyroid, and leukemia when compared to the general population."
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Cancer in General Responders Participating in World Trade Center Health Programs, 2003–2013
SOURCE_URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7050150/
"Federal health authorities Monday added 58 types of cancer to the list of covered illnesses for people who were exposed to toxins at the site of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
The addition finalizes a recommendation from Dr. John Howard, administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program. Howard proposed in June that the program accept the recommendations of its Science/Technical Advisory Committee and add some cancers to the coverage list -- 14 categories in all."
"We excluded cancers that might have been diagnosed early (that may have existed before the attack) ... and we still see a 19% increase," said Dr. David Prezant, chief medical officer at the New York City Fire Department and the study's lead author, in a recent interview with CNN.
"When we put those cancers back in, we see a 32% increase."
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CNN: 58 cancers receive 9/11 fund coverage
SOURCE_URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/10/health/new-york-wtc-cancer/index.html
"They added thyroid cancer because a study found a higher-than-expected number of cases
in firefighters who responded to 9/11, even though thyroid cancer is generally linked to genetics or high doses of radiation.
The same study found a lower-than-expected number of lung cancers, but it was added because it was considered a plausible consequence of inhaling toxins at the site."
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CBS News: Experts: No hard evidence 9/11 caused cancers
SOURCE_URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57456831/experts-no-hard-evidence-9-11-caused-cancers/
Increase In Cancer From Chernobyl Incident:
Thyroid cancer
"A large increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer has occurred among people who were young children and adolescents at the time of the accident and lived in the
most contaminated areas of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine."
Leukaemia and non-thyroid solid cancer
"Ionizing radiation is a known cause of certain types of leukaemia (a malignancy of blood cells).
An elevated risk of leukaemia was first found among the survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan some two to five years after exposure.
Recent investigations suggest a doubling of the incidence of leukaemia among the most highly exposed Chernobyl liquidators."
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World Health Organization
- Health effects of the Chernobyl accident: an overview
SOURCE_URL: http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/backgrounder/en/index.html
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