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CINCINNATI (AP) - Nearly two decades of observations of thousands of people who lived near a Cold War uranium-refining plant will be shared by the University of Cincinnati with other researchers in an effort to further understand the health effects of low-level radiation.
In one of the nation's longest such studies, the Fernald Medical Monitoring Program is drawing to an end after 17 years of collecting data from more than 9,500 people who lived near the Feed Materials Production Center at Fernald in southwest Ohio.
"Our greatest hope is that by studying this, this will help another community. I don't want to see it just put on a shelf," said Lisa Crawford, who lives near the site and helped form FRESH — Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health.
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