AW: [ RadSafe ] alternative explanation childhood leukaemia ( " German do...

[BLHamrick at aol.com]

Rainer quotes an article, stating:
 
"This suggests that nuclear power plants possibly are built preferentially  
in regions, where the risk for childhood leukaemia is raised due to not yet  
understood causes."
 
My response:
 
Or that the very IDEA of a nuclear power plant causes sufficient stress to  
increase cancers.
 
That was tongue-in-cheek...mostly.
 
Barbara
 
 
In a message dated 10/14/2008 8:05:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Rainer.Facius at dlr.de writes:

"Studies  have been made in Germany and Great Britain, which found an 
increased risk for  leukaemia for children which lived in regions where nuclear power 
plants have  been planned but never have been built. This risk was 
qualitatively and  quantitatively similar to that found in the vicinity of existing 
nuclear power  plants. This suggests that nuclear power plants possibly are built  
preferentially in regions, where the risk for childhood leukaemia is raised  
due to not yet understood  causes."

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