Child leukaemia doubles near French nuclear plants-study

[kristopher]

Child leukaemia doubles near French nuclear plants-study
By Muriel Boselli

PARIS Jan 11 (Reuters) - The incidence of leukaemia is twice as high in children living close to French nuclear power plants as in those living elsewhere in the country, a study by French health and nuclear safety experts has found.
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The study, conducted by the French health research body INSERM, found that between 2002 and 2007, 14 children under the age of 15 living in a 5-kilometre radius of France's 19 nuclear power plants had been diagnosed with leukaemia.

This is double the rate of the rest of the country, where a total of 2,753 cases were diagnosed in the same period.

"This is a result which has been checked thoroughly and which is statistically significant," said Dominique Laurier, head of the epidemiology research laboratory at France's nuclear safety research body (IRSN).

INSERM has ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/nuclear-leukaemia-france-idUSL6E8CB5QY20120111



The article has several caveats and should be read in its entirety. - k

[kristopher]

1. Another write up

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1685190.php/Children-near-French-nuclear-plants-may-run-greater-leukaemia-risk

[FBaggins]

2. Several caveats? I should think so.

Not the least of which is that the statistic isn't meaningful.