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Nuclear power plant causing cancers

Indian Point cancer link seen crains New York Business News By Gale Scott 16 Nov 09 Environmental groups cite statistics showing apparent link between incidence of thyroid cancer and people’s proximity to nuclear power plants.

Emissions from nuclear power plants may be responsible for higher than expected rates of thyroid cancer cropping up in communities near some of those facilities, according to an analysis of recently released cancer statistics.

Those findings were highlighted Monday morning at a news conference held by a coalition of environmental groups in Manhattan. The analysis was contained in a newly published article by no-nukes activist Joseph Mangano in the International Journal of Health Services. The article, “Geographic Variation in U.S. Thyroid Cancer Incidence and a Cluster Near Nuclear Reactors in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania,” faults the emissions of radioactive iodine as the likely reason for what he says appear to be cancer clusters. The journal is a peer-reviewed publication targeted to non-scientists.

Indian Point cancer link seen – Crain’s New York Business

November 16, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive