<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Hi folks</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span>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.</span><br><br><span>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: </span><br><a href="http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/releases/news_release.cfm?news_release_id=472" target="_blank" style="outline: 0px;">http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/releases/news_release.cfm?news_release_id=472</a><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Earlier this year, Dr. Cathy Vakil from <span style="background-color: transparent;">Queens University</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> was speaking independently about </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">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:</span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. The COMARE 14th report regarding incidents of childhood leukaemia around nuclear Power plants in Great Britain. </span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.comare.org.uk/press_releases/14thReportPressRelease.htm" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
small;">http://www.comare.org.uk/press_releases/14thReportPressRelease.htm</a></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. Kikk study found higher leukaemia rates in children in proximity to nuclear power plants with ages 5 and under being most affected. </span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696975/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline:
0px;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696975/</a><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This data was replicated.</span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">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 <span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. Poor design of study </span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. Mathematical Models flawed </span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color:
transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. Stastical Data Bases weak. </span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span><span>To view their critique visit here:</span> </span><cite style="font-style: normal; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 128, 42); display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 1px; white-space: nowrap;">www.cape.ca/permalinked/<b>radicon</b>_critique_june2013.doc</cite><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);
line-height: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"></span></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 15px; white-space: nowrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv0148903423yui_3_2_0_19_134799311597442" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lulu :0)</span></div></div></div></body></html>