Are children under 5 years old who live near nuclear power plants in Germany more likely to develop leukaemia or not?
The country’s powerful Green Party thinks so and has seized upon the results of a new study to renew its calls for the closure of all German nuclear facilities.
Claudia Spix and her colleagues at the University of Mainz took another look at cancer statistics from 1980 to 2003, held in the German Childhood Cancer Registry at Mainz. First time around they had found a suggestion in the German cancer statistics of extra cases of childhood leukaemia near nuclear…
