[All] Experts Challenge Canadian Nuclear Safety's latest report

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Hi folks

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announce that its Radiation and Incidence of Cancer around Ontario Nuclear Power Plants from 1990 to 2008 study (the RADICON study) has been peer-reviewed and published in the prestigious Journal of Environmental Protection.

The RADICON study looked at populations living near Ontario’s three nuclear power plants (NPPs) and found no evidence of childhood leukemia clusters in the communities within 25 km of the Pickering, Darlington and Bruce NPPs. The study was conducted using data from the Canadian and Ontario Cancer Registries and the Census of Canada. The CNSC had released a summary of the study in May 20 2013. Information here: 
http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/releases/news_release.cfm?news_release_id=472


Earlier this year, Dr. Cathy Vakil from Queens University was speaking independently about Radioactivity, Health and the Nuclear Industry in Waterloo. She states that two studies suggest leukaemia risks were higher among kids near power plants and citied these two reports:


1. The COMARE 14th report regarding incidents of childhood leukaemia around nuclear Power plants in Great Britain. 
http://www.comare.org.uk/press_releases/14thReportPressRelease.htm

2.  Kikk study found higher leukaemia rates in children in proximity to nuclear power plants with ages 5 and under being most affected. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696975/

This data was replicated.

Dr. Vakil who is a board member of CAPE, Physicians for Global Survival worked with Dr. Linda Harvey, President of Physicians for Global Survival and they published their opinions about this latest Radicon study and found flaws based on  

1. Poor design of study 
2. Mathematical Models flawed 
3. Stastical Data Bases weak. 

To view their critique visit here:  www.cape.ca/permalinked/radicon_critique_june2013.doc‎

Lulu :0)
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