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Jay M. Gould, PhD
Radiation and Public Health Project New York, NY

JAMA. 1991;266(5):654-655.

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To the Editor.

—We have completed a detailed examination of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) cancer mortality data summarized by Jablon et al¹ for each of the 50 civilian power reactors before and after start-up as shown in the Table for the Millstone reactor site in New London, Conn. In two thirds of these reactor sites we found significant increases in the aggregated standardized cancer mortality ratios, as in the case of Millstone, and no significant change in the other sites. This is in direct conflict with their conclusion that "if nuclear facilities posed a risk to neighboring populations, that risk was too small to be detected...." Most of the 50 civilian power reactors began operations in the 1970s and their pre-start-up periods should not include the

1950s. According to recent estimates of the Natural Resources Defense Council, fission products equivalent to 40 000 Hiroshima bombs were released into . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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