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Clusters… I remember reading a study on cancer rates
around US nuclear sites and sites where nuclear facilities were
planned but never built. There were cancer clusters around some “inexistent”
facilities. I do not remember the reference;
it is at the CNSC library. Philippe Duport -----Original Message----- What is the currently accepted
theory behind the leukemia clusters? Is it that they are statistical outliers? I thought it was that it was viruses
introduced by a mobile workforce into isolated communities. I thought the
clusters were reproduced in other instances where mobile workers came into
stable, immobile communities. This is not a very pleasant theory.
It promotes xenophobia and, to avoid stigmatizing cancer, bacterial and viral
causes are not in fashion ("Cancer is not contagious"). It is much
easier to blame it on radiation. Kai |