>> >> There are no cancers in the residential areas of 
>> >> Sellafield /
>> >> Windscale caused by the nuclear facilities there. 
>> >> It's true!  It's
>> >> been statistically proven!  Utterly rigorous 
>> >> scientific investigations
>> >> have shown that the cancer clusters in Sellafield 
>> >> are/were unrelated
>> >> in any way to the adjacent nuclear facilities.
>
>> > That's not what the Wikipedia entry for Sellafield 
>> > says.  The COMARE
>> > report 
>> > http://www.comare.org.uk/press_releases/comare_pr10.htm
>> > Indicates that while no significance at commercial 
>> > nuclear power plants
>> > in England, that places like Sellafield did have an 
>> > increased
>> > incidence.
>
>> That is my point.
>> PEOPLE claimed it was happening.
>> COMARE investigated and agreed.
>> BUT scientific investigations subsequently found that 
>> there
>> was no evidence that radiological issues were to blame. 
>> ie
>> the clusters "just happened" in that area, but it had
>> nothing to do with the radiation.
>
> What are these subsequent investigations?

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Equivocal results

        http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0952-4746/19/4/605

but re increasing numbers of still births correlated with 
the time that a worker is employed in the plant.

"    In the Commentary given in The Lancet, Hazel Inskip 
from the University of Southampton advises that the possible 
risk of stillbirth should be kept in perspective, and 
comments that `there is no obvious mechanism for the 
association',"

ie There is a correlation between ttime that you work there 
and the prospect of your wife having still;-born children 
*BUT* correlation does not prove causation and there is no 
obvious causation present.

Hopefully this resulted in them going away and improving 
their knowledge of causal mechanisms in such cases. What's 
the bet?


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