Originally posted by trayi52
Tennessee is # 36, awful! I have noticed a lot of people die of cancer here.
I know what you mean. I grew up very close to Oak Ridge and now I live on the other side of it and just as close. We joke about how people around here glow in the dark but seriously the cancer deaths are very high here.

What is very scary is one day while my husband was driving to work in Oak Ridge he went past a hill that he passes every day in both directions and had always been a plain green grassy hill but on that day the grass had been rolled back and the entire hill was concrete. He asked around at work and people told him it was were barrels of "waste" were buried. Since it was near the plant that enriched uranium for nuclear weapons you can guess what kind of waste that may be.

No wonder both my parents have had cancer. Wonder what I will have by age 50?