Are you OK for you & your family to be living with-in 5 km of a Nuclear plant?

[medhead]

But the science is proven.Sorry couldn't resist that one.

Very drool! Unfortunately, I'm going to have to end my little chuckle by being serious. Your analogy doesn't work because you are not a low radiation dose effects researcher and the vast majority of said researchers haven't reached the same conclusion. In fact I doubt a single low dose scientist has said the science is proven.

But it was rather funny all the same.

 

[medhead]

This just came across my desk today.

Study: Childhood cancer not linked to reactors

Study: Childhood cancer not linked to reactors
13 July 2011
A nationwide study involving more than 1.3 million children in Switzerland has concluded that there is no evidence of an increased risk of cancer*for children born near nuclear power plants.*
*
The Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) and the Swiss Cancer League requested that the Institute of Social and Preventative Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern perform a study of the relationship between childhood cancer and nuclear power plants in Switzerland.*ISPM then teamed with the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry and the Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group to conduct the Childhood Cancer and Nuclear Power Plants in Switzerland (CANUPIS) study between September 2008 and December 2010. The results have now been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Peer reviewed study to support my view that I would live near a reactor - well a Swiss one anyway.

 

[Awesom Andy]

I voted no, not because of the chances of nuclear accidents, but I would much rather not having to look at huge power lines/towers every day.

 

[simongr]

Isn't this a frequent flyer forum? SHouldnt this be punted to the playground at best?

 

[medhead]

Isn't this a frequent flyer forum? SHouldnt this be punted to the playground at best?

Maybe, but that's not my call, I didn't start it and it has been here a little while.