French Scientists: Childhood Leukemia Spikes Near Nuclear Reactors
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“…during the period from 2002-2007 in France the doubling of childhood leukemia incidence: the increase is up to 2.2 among children under age five.
“The researchers note that they found no mechanistic proof of cause and effect, but could find no other environmental factor that could produce the excess cancers.
“Without getting overly technical, the case-control study included the 2,753 cases of acute leukemia diagnosed in mainland France over 2002-2007, and 30,000 contemporaneous population ‘controls.’ The children’s last addresses were geo-coded and located around France’s 19 nuclear power stations, which operate 54 separate reactors. The study used distance to the reactors and a dose-based geographic zoning (DBGZ), based on the estimated dose to bone marrow related to the reactors’ gaseous discharges….”
Author: John LaForge, on the staff of Nukewatch in Wisconsin
Published in: HuntingtonNews.net (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/); Aletho News (at https://alethonews.wordpress.com/); ScrollPost.com (at http://scrollpost.com/)
Date: January 18, 19 and 20, 2012
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