Child Leukaemia Doubles Near French Nuclear Plants: Study

[hunter]

6. Words have meaning...

"But the study, to be published soon in the International Journal of Cancer, fell short of establishing a causal link between the higher incidence of leukemia, a type of blood cancer, and living near nuclear power plants."

At least the parent source isn't woo: http://english.inserm.fr

The only nuclear health studies that ever come up with hard numbers involve very significant radiation exposures: open air nuclear attacks and bomb tests, Chernobyl (and soon to be Fukushima), medical x-rays and radiation, that sort of thing... and even with those clear radiation exposures there are an abundance of very bad or even fraudulent studies either exaggerating the harm or minimizing it.

From my personal experiences, many of the "studies" surrounding the defunct Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant in California were a crap fling. There did seem to be a statistical signal in a few of them, but even those results could better be attributed to ag chemical runoff and similar factors. Nuclear power plants don't exist in isolation from other toxic human activities.

This paper seems to be another, "Hey, check this out, we might have found something..." It'll be interesting to look at the source when it's published.