In fact, the accident did kill some people, and nearby residents suffer to this day with higher incidents of certain cancers. According to a study by a U. North Carolina epidemiologist Steven Wing, higher rates of leukemia and lung cancer occur close to the plant indicating a higher release of radiation that previously admitted. His conclusion diverged sharply from a previous study by Columbia University in 1990. Columbia researchers labeled Wing's conclusions "tendentious and unbalanced". After re-running the same data used by Columbia researchers, he concluded that exposed neighbors suffered two to 10 times as many lung cancer and leukemia cases as those who lived upwind. Shortly before his study was published, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by 2,000 neighbors of Three Mile Island citing a "paucity of evidence" that the meltdown caused their health problems. A book published in 1982, "Killing Our Own" by long-time nuclear power critic Harry Wasserman quotes Dr. Earnest Sternglass, a professor of radiation physics at U. of Pittsburg School of Medicine, that “The Three Mile Island accident will turn out to have produced the largest death toll ever resulting from an industrial accident, with total deaths from all causes likely to reach many thousands over the next 10 to 20 years.” In fact nearby residents of Goldboro, PA who died or were otherwise impacted by the meltdown have quietly been receiving cash settlements as high as $1 million paid by the owner of the plant. An attorney working on the settlements says the Three Mile Island coverup was "one of the biggest cover-ups in history.” In a new documentary about the accident a whisleblower states TMI covered up the gravity of the meltdown and its releases of radioactive isotopes Xenon 133 and Iodine 131. Although Dr. Henrie was bounced from the chairmanship in the accident's aftermath, he stayed on the Commission as one of its five members. He was a nuclear power proponent who said on receiving his appointment that his biggest challenge was, "to keep nuclear power as a viable energy option.” He left the Commission in 1981 to preside over another release of radioactive material at the High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven, NY. That experimental reactor was shutdown in 1997 after leaking radioactive tritium into the groundwater. Residents of Shirley, NY have experienced widespread cancer, which some have attributed to the contamination coming from Brookhaven. Brookhaven National Laboratory is now a high-pollution Superfund site. The Brookhaven accident was not mentioned in the Henrie obituary. Nuclear power boosters make hay with the claim that nuclear power is 'carbon neutral'. That claim completely misses the glaring fact that the nucler fuel cycle--mining, milling and enrichment--is highly carbon intensive. And to top it off, nuclear power plants emit radioactive Carbon 14, as did the Brookhaven High Flux Reactor.