New cancer research to replace flawed Three Mile Island study
It will be an update of a previous study now considered flawed because it looked only at people who died of cancer and didn’t count those diagnosed with cancer but still alive.
New cancer study of areas around U.S. nuclear facilities brings relief in TMI area, PennLive.com, By DAVID WENNER, The Patriot-NewsApril 29, 2010,”……..The new study won’t focus specifically on TMI nor is its purpose to gauge the impact of the 1979 accident.
The accident has been the focus of numerous studies, all of which failed to link it to health problems.
Rather, the study will look at decades of cancer cases surrounding each of the nation’s 65 nuclear facilities, including TMI, to assess the cancer risk of living near a normally operating nuclear facility.
It will be an update of a previous study now considered flawed because it looked only at people who died of cancer and didn’t count those diagnosed with cancer but still alive.
The study has yet to be designed. But spokesmen for two organizations involved with it said they expect researchers to be on the lookout for abnormalities that might be associated with the TMI accident……
The study will amount to a more sophisticated version of the main study the NRC uses to answer questions regarding cancer risks associated with nuclear plants.Based on that 1990 study, the NRC has long contended there is no increase in cancer cases associated with nuclear power plants. But the NRC admits flaws in the study, which was conducted by the National Institutes of Health, the federal agency that finances most of the government’s medical research.
New cancer study of areas around U.S. nuclear facilities brings relief in TMI area | – PennLive.com
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