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The study marks the first time the partial meltdown can be connected to specific cancer cases, the researchers have said.

The findings may pose a dramatic challenge to the nuclear energy industry’s position that radiation released had no impact on human health.

The study was published Monday in the medical journal Laryngoscope, one day before Exelon Corp. announced that Three Mile Island would close in 2019. It’s likely to come as another blow to a nuclear power industry already struggling to stay profitable.

Exelon officials declined to comment on the findings, pointing out that it doesn’t own the damaged reactor and wasn’t running the plant during the accident…….

thyroid cancer caused by low-level radiation has a different “mutational signal” than most thyroid cancer, Goldenberg said. He and his colleagues used molecular research that had been pioneered after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to find that genetic signal. …..

The next step is to expand the study by tapping into resources from other regional hospitals, he said.

The study contradicts conclusions about Three Mile Island held by many nuclear energy proponents, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. …… https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2017/05/31/psu-study-links-1979-tmi-accident-thyroid-cancer/358027001/