At last, a study which would appear to prove conclusively that living near nuclear power plants is a hazard to human health, particularly where children are concerned (26 April, p 18).
For over 20 years government scientists have led the public to believe that clusters of leukaemia around power stations were inexplicable, just coincidence, or perhaps a virus. Anything but radiation, as the levels of radionuclides emitted were declared "too small".
Nuclear power, nuclear weapons and, more recently, the use of depleted uranium have all been so important to multinational corporations and the military that their real impact has been constantly shrouded in deceit and half-truths.
The German government deserves congratulations for its acceptance of the findings of the new "KiKK" studies of childhood cancer near nuclear power plants that Ian Fairlie reports.
In the regions most contaminated by the 1986 accident at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, thyroid cancer ...
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