I nodded and asked, "Now do you feel better about living downwind from Plum Island?"

The courts ruled similarly in the cases of the those who lived downwind from the testing sites.

The book is about the radiation exposure of people and their livestock living downwind from the nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s.

After all, they are the ones who have to live downwind.

Energy Department officials told a Congressional subcommittee today that radiation released from underground nuclear testing posed no significant threat to people living downwind from the Nevada Test Site.

The people of Vieques live downwind from where the bombing was done; thus toxins that can be airborne - such as DU - could easily come in contact with civilians.

The mothers who live in the cinder-block houses just downwind from a towering lead-smelting plant have begun describing their children by numbers.

Similar reports have also come from Americans who lived downwind from atmospheric tests, among them inhabitants of Utah and of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific.

But the panel also found it had underestimated the radiation absorbed by people living 100 miles and more downwind from Hanford.

The records are considered the most comprehensive raw data on whether chronic exposure to low levels of radiation endangers the health of workers and people living downwind from the plants.