Children between zero and fourteen years in a radius of 15 kilometers around the nuclear zone live in the Belgian Mol-Dessel, two to three times higher than average leukemia.
According to research by the scientific journal European Journal of Cancer Prevention, the Belgian newspaper De Morgen writes. The nuclear zone covers a small part of the Netherlands.
Mol-Dessel is a nuclear power station and the area around it is made of nuclear materials, processed and stored as waste. The area is near the border with the Netherlands, so the investigation also involves residents of the Netherlands. A small part of the rural area of the Dutch town of Reusel-the Mierden located just inside the radius of fifteen kilometers around the nuclear plant.
The research was conducted in the period 2002 to 2008. The researchers suspect that there is a connection between the wind direction and leukemia, as they put in the report. To see if that is true, further research would be needed. There is also found an association of distance would blow up the station with the direction in which radioactive gas emissions, according to the publication.
Conclusion
Lodewijk Van Bladel, radiation expert at the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) and co-author of the study, giving opposite De Morgen that it is' a handful of children. " To draw a firm conclusion, requires further investigation. ,, We have proven no link. However, we want to exclude any risks. "
The nuclear plant in Mol has been active since 1956. The plant, the oldest of its kind in Belgium is part of the Belgian nuclear power. The reason for the study is a large-scale German study in 2008 which showed that young children in the vicinity of nuclear power plants have an increased risk of cancer.
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