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" cancer rates near German power reactors significantly higher "



Looks like the German gov't managed to get all the "right" people into their

Federal Agency for Radiation Protection.........



> Jaro 

> 

NUCLEAR NEWS FLASHES - Friday, July 13, 2001

INTERNATIONAL NEWS:

--GERMANY WILL INVESTIGATE NEW INDICATIONS THAT CANCER RATES NEAR REACTORS

are 20% higher than elsewhere, the BFS) announced today. BFS officials said

they are "satisfied" that data from a report prepared at the request of the

government by consultants at the Munich Environmental Institute show that

cancer rates in areas near German power reactors are significantly higher

than in areas where there are no reactors. The Munich institute based its

findings on surveys of cancer in-

cidence found during the period 1983-1998 near three reactor sites in

Bavaria.



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