[ RadSafe ] " German doctor takes anti-nuclear message to western Canada "

[Peter Bossew]

Steven Dapra wrote:
> Oct. 9
>
>         I wonder where the study was published.  Or if it *has* been 
> published.  (Ha, ha.)
>
> Steven Dapra
>
>

Here:

original study:
Kaatsch P, Spix C, Schmiedel S, Schulze-Rath R, Mergenthaler A, Blettner 
M. Epidemiologische Studie zu Kinderkrebs in der Umgebung von 
Kernkraftwerken (KiKK-Studie). Abschlussbericht. Umweltforschungsplan 
des Bundesumweltministeriums (UFOPLAN) - Reaktorsicherheit und 
Strahlenschutz. Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Salzgitter, 2007.
http://www.kinderkrebsregister.de/english/  -> epidemiological studies 
-> Incidence studies...  (Abstract)
full text: http://www.kinderkrebsregister.de/ -> Publikationen -> 2007 
-> No. 1 (pdf download, summary + 2 parts, in German; 327 pages)

Kaatsch P, Spix C, Schulze-Rath R, Schmiedel S, Blettner M. Leukaemia in 
young children living in the vicinity of German nuclear power plants.
Int J Cancer 122, 721-726, 2008,  
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117859649/abstract , DOI:  
10.1002/ijc.23330

Spix C, Schmiedel S, Kaatsch P, Schulze-Rath R, Blettner M. Case-Control 
Study on Childhood Cancer in the Vicinity of Nuclear Power Plants in 
Germany 1980-2003. Eur J Cancer 44, 275-284, 2008, 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2007.11.009 


pb





>
> At 10:01 AM 10/9/08 -0400, Franta, Jaroslav wrote:
>> German doctor takes anti-nuclear message to western Canada
>> Canadian Press, 8 October 2008
>>
>> PEACE RIVER, Alta. _ A German doctor is travelling through western 
>> Alberta delivering a message about the dangers of nuclear power.
>>
>> Dr. Ernst Iskenius says a 2007 study by the German government shows 
>> the closer you live to a nuclear power plant, the more likely your 
>> children will get cancer.
>>
>> Iskenius, a member of the international organization Physicians 
>> Against Nuclear War, is on a speaking tour that includes visits to 
>> Regina, Whitecourt and Peace River.
>>
>> He says the report found that during the years of 1980 to 2003, 
>> children under the age of five living close to a nuclear power plant 
>> were 120 per cent more likely to develop leukemia.
>>
>> He says there were also 60 per cent more likely to develop other 
>> forms of cancer.
>>
>> The report looked at 16 power plants and was funded by the German 
>> Federal Radiation Protection Agency.
>>
>> The several doctors involved in the four-year study were a mixture of 
>> those against nuclear plants, and those who were proponents, said 
>> Iskenius.
>>
>> "It is an extraordinary study,'' he said. "The results were quite 
>> different than (the government) expected. They expected no evidence 
>> like they did in prior studies, but what they found was they took all 
>> 16 plants and found there was a significant risk to get cancer (in 
>> children).''
>>
>> The study also observed children downwind from the plants and found 
>> similar results.
>>
>> Despite the findings, there is still uncertainty about nuclear power 
>> within Germany.
>>
>> German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said he was perplexed by 
>> the findings, as radiation levels are regulated rigorously.
>> "The population's radiation exposure due to the operation of a 
>> nuclear power plants in Germany would have to be at least 1,000 times 
>> higher to be able to explain the observed increase in cancer,'' he said.
>>
>> Iskenius urged northern Albertans to lobby government to reconsider 
>> allowing a proposed nuclear reactor near Lac Cardinal, north of Peace 
>> River.
>> "If this nuclear plant is too dangerous and there is a risk for all 
>> children then we either accept these things as very dangerous or we 
>> (raise) the standards,'' he said.
>> "On the international level we are fighting to shut down all of these 
>> installations because the risk is too great.''
>


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