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French Study Confirms Correlation Between Increased Incidence Child Leukaemia and Vicinity to Nuclear Power Plants

‘Women and children at greater risk’ alarms Women’s Environment and Health Network WECF

13.01.2012 | WECF Press Release
The International Journal on Cancer, published in its January 2012 magazine[1], a new study from France, confirming an earlier German study (KiKK-Study Dec 2007) that the incidence of child leukaemia more than doubles near nuclear power plants for children below the age 5 living within a 5 kilometre radius of nuclear power plants, compared to children living further then 20 kilometres from a nuclear power plant.

The national wide study was carried out by the national French institutes l’INSERM[2], de l’IRSN[3] in cooperation with the national child cancer registry of the hospital of Villejuif, including 2753 child leukaemia cases diagnosed between 2002 and 2007 and a control group of 30,000. The addresses were geocoded around 19 nuclear…