Re: Sellafield

["Gibbs, S Julian" <s.julian.gibbs@vanderbilt.edu>]

The Gardner study (purporting to show a cluster of 
childhood leukemia in offspring of workers at the 
West Cumbria nuclear plant in the UK) has been roundly 
criticized on a number of grounds.
A few references:
Kinlen et al, Brit Med J 310:763, 1995
Little et al, Health Phys 68:299, 1995
Neel, Genet Epidemiol 11:213, 1994
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