&gt;Skimming the 1998 Senate hearing linked in the article, the link between radioactive iodine ingestion and thyroid cancer was apparently unsure even in 1998, although considered likely by then.<p>Skimming certain recent senate hearings, one might conclude that global warming is quite possibly a dark conspiracy by climate scientists.<p>I have worked in the nuclear industry prior to 1998, and I can tell you that the risks were well enough understood by then.<p>If the risks were not suspected at the time of the tests, why would anyone be thinking of disposing of milk?