Cancer risks studied near 7 U.S. nuclear sites

[unhappycamper]

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2012/10/24/cancer-risks-studied-near-7-u-s-nuclear-sites/a58hzyn/

Cancer risks studied near 7 U.S. nuclear sites
By STEPHEN SINGER - The Associated Press
Created: Thursday, October 25, 2012 5:30 a.m. CDT

HARTFORD, Conn. – Federal regulators say a pilot study of cancer risks posed to residents near seven nuclear power sites in the United States will update 22-year-old data, but an industry group says the study won't come up with anything new.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to study multiple cancer types in infants and the general population near six nuclear power plants, including the Dresden Nuclear Power Station in Morris, Ill., and a nuclear-fuel plant for the Navy.

The National Academy of Sciences recommended the sites in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and Tennessee because they represent a broad sample of plants with different operating histories, population sizes, and data in state cancer registries.

The $2 million study is expected to begin in the next three months and continue at least into 2014, the NRC announced Tuesday.

[Demeter]

1. Have they ever studied Military Radiation Site Risk?

I'm thinking uranium processing, testing, accidents....

[madokie]

2. I would say that being as the NRC is in bed with the nuclear energy industry

that they will say that there is no appreciable increase of cancer risk due to living near a nuclear power plant. I'll call bullshit on this before they get started as they, the NRA has an agenda and that is to push for more nuclear energy