Protecting them from the other 14000 radioactive hits per second that all people experience, due to cosmic radation and other natural internal sources, is another matter, though…

As a one time Florida resident, familiar with the area, I postulate that the source of the radiation is most likely naturally occuring – the state is full of it. Absent some showing that these cancers are related to one another, and associated with this type and method of exposure – this is a non-case in my belief. Even with that showing, unless the waste from the local plant can be specifically identified as the cause (mass spec readings, isotopic comparisons, some “hard science”) I’m still not buying it.

(Disclosure) I briefly (Summer Job) did analysis of water at a company sampling water sources, runoff, and discharge for a large number of local municipalities and businesses in Florida – though I was in one of the rooms doing the titrations, fecal coliform studies, and the like. I’ve seen the gas chromatigraph and other high tech equipment in use for specialized testing purposes, but beyond a basic theoretical understanding of how they work, do not have a strong understanding of their limits. Accordingly, some of the above evidence I’m looking for might be beyond the mechanical limits of common equipment used for testing, though I doubt it.