re: #96 SixDegrees
Interestingly, the abstract states that the results pretty much eliminate the possibility that leukemia was caused by exposure to radiation, and offers a tantalizing hint that there may be an infective agent at work. The area was being monitored out of concerns over radiation effects - which is apparently normal procedure in France, to ally fears - but this anomaly popped out of the data.
We can hit this ball back and forth for weeks.
But living here as I do, I can affirm that all is not as well as Areva (they had to change their name from Cogema due to accumulated bad press) would like the world to think.