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Cancer in populations living near nuclear facilities Report of a survey by researchers at the US National Cancer Institute

@inproceedings{Boice1991CancerIP,
  title={Cancer in populations living near nuclear facilities Report of a survey by researchers at the US National Cancer Institute},
  author={Boice},
  year={1991}
}

• Boice
• Published 1991
• Medicine

20 .Ithough there have not been, in the United States, massive accidental releases of radioactivity from nuclear facilities such as the one at Chernobyl, questions continue to be raised about possible adverse health effects resulting from events such as the releases at Three Mile Island and Hanford, or even from routine operation of nuclear facilities. Higher incidence of leukaemia in children has been reported in the environs of the Sellafield fuel reprocessing facility in England,' near the Dounreay reprocessing plant in Scotland,' and in children who lived within a few kilometres of the Aldermaston or Burghfield military weapons facilities in England. In a comprehensive survey, Forman et al and Cook-Mozaffari et al '" reported excess mortality due to leukaemia and Hodgkin's disease in young persons in the vicinity of 14 nuclear facilities, eight of them electric generating plants. Crump et al, however, found no variations in cancer incidence rates in the vicinity of the Rocky Flats weapons plant, and studies in France by Dousset, Viel, and Richardson, and Hill and Laplanche found no excess mortality from leukaemia or other cancers in persons who lived near any of the six nuclear facilities (including two reprocessing plants). Studies of populations living near power plants have yielded mixed results. In the United Kingdom, Ewings et al found increased incidence of leukaemia and lymphoma in young persons near the Hinckley Point power station. Clapp et al reported an excess incidence of leukaemia in men in five towns near the Pilgrim