re: #110 SixDegrees

So they found radiation, but no connection to the leukemia which they lead the article with.

SNIP

“Subsequently, however, the Commission of Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (CRIIRAD), a private agency, reported that, at low tide, tourists collecting seashells near a pipe carrying nuclear waste out to sea were exposed to 300 microsieverts per hour, which amounts in 4 hours to “more than the annual maximum dose.” In addition, CRIIRAD found abnormal concentrations of highly toxic iodine-129 in moss within a 7-km radius of the plant. Altogether, CRIIRAD claims, authorized outputs by the La Hague plant exceed the total discharge of all the world’s nuclear reactors combined.”

“Bernard Koucher, France’s secretary of state for health, promised to set up a national cancer registry to determine whether people living near nuclear plants are prone to a higher incidence of the disease.”

The French government (surprise!) never did the study. A private, non-partisan agency (the CRIIRAD) did however, and their results corroborated the UK report.