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Default Safety of Nuke Power

Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article , dpb wrote:

It is, however, a statistical correlation at best and my guess is that
except for the near downstream track it will be impossible to detect any
increase owing specifically to Chernobyl.

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From a purely epidemiological standpoint, it really shouldn't be all
that difficult to find clusters of excess cancers, and there are forms
of cancer that are more highly correlated with exposure to nuclear
materials. It would be correlational, but then much of public health
is.


That assumes there _are_ such clusters...the dispersion was so wide,
it's highly unlikely to be concentrated enough to show up imo.

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