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Millstone Point Unit 1
Airborne releases	1973	1974	1975	1976
Total noble gases (Curies)	78,900	912,000	2,970,000	507,000

Source: Summary of Radioactivity Released in Effluents from Nuclear Power Plants From 1973 to 1976, December 1977, U.S. EPA-520/3-7-012

* In 1975, Millstone 1 also released 9.7 Curies of Iodine-131 and 17.2 Curies of Tritium.

Notes: In the year 1975 alone, the Millstone 1 nuclear reactor released the highest ever recorded amounts of radioactivity in the history of nuclear energy (up to that time). In the preceding year (1974), the total release from all U.S. reactors was about 6.5 million Curies!

Millstone's record-breaking contaminating year was soon trumped by a single incident - an accident - at Three Mile Island (TMI) that received international media attention. In 1979, TMI released at least 13 million Curies of radioactive noble gases similar in nature to those gases released at Millstone. In her book Nuclear Madness, Helen Caldicott notes that radioactive noble gases may pose an acute danger to downwinders if they are exposed to the clouds of gaseous radiation. She writes that 'Although noble gases do not combine chemically in the body, they are absorbed by the lungs after inhalation' and emit gamma rays that, like X-rays, can damage reproductive organs. Both TMI and Millstone released similar levels of harmful Iodine-131, which accumulates in local food chains and eventually pools into a person's thyroid where cancer may be induced.

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'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.'
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

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