http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2012/08/24/nuclear-regulatory-commission-may-study-power-plant-health-risks-via-the-los-angeles-times/ Sat, 18 May 2013 13:13:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2012/08/24/nuclear-regulatory-commission-may-study-power-plant-health-risks-via-the-los-angeles-times/comment-page-1/#comment-263602 norma field Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:33:18 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/?p=16985#comment-263602 If this study is indeed undertaken, how will we know whether and how to trust it? On the one hand, as pointed out in this article, it is notoriously difficult to attribute cancers uniquely to radiation exposure, given the many other carcinogens in our environment; on the other, we already have many, many studies showing such an association, such as the work of statistician and epidemiologist Jay A. Gold. They have uniformly be condemned by the nuclear power industry and its supporters in the academy and government.

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